Glossary

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  • Latent trigger point

    Trigger points that are not symptomatic when the involved muscle is at rest, but produce pain during palpation. Range of motion and strength may also be limited.  

  • Active trigger point

    A trigger point that is painful when the involved muscle is at rest. Palpation will reproduce the patient’s symptoms.  

  • Trigger point

    An area of tissue that is tender when compressed and may give rise to referred pain and tenderness. A specific region of the body that elicits pain when touched or subjected to pressure.  

  • Triggering

    The initiation of a mechanically generated breath after the detection of a change in airway pressure, after a change in air flow, or after an alteration in the flow wave form.  

  • Trigenic

    In genetics, a condition in which three alleles are present at any particular locus on the chromosome.  

  • Trifurcation involvement

    The extension of periodontitis or a periodontal pocket into an area where the tooth roots divide.  

  • Trifolium pretense

    The scientific name for red clover, an herbal remedy containing phytoestrogens. Despite its estrogenic chemistry it is not an effective treatment for hot flashes occurring in menopause.  

  • Trifocal

    Having three convergence points, as in a trifocal lens.  

  • Trielcon

    An instrument with three branches for removing bullets or other foreign bodies from wounds.  

  • Tridermoma

    A teratoid growth containing all three germ layers.