Author: Glossary

To tap parts of the body to aid diagnosis by listening carefully to the sounds they emit.  

Continuous, as in the spread of an inflammation from part to part.  

Touching, as in the spread of an inflammation from one part to an adjacent structure.  

An apparatus used for extraction of a drug with a liquid solvent.  

To allow a liquid to seep through a powdered substance.  

An optical illusion in which a boundary, color, texture, light, or object is seen where one does not actually exist. This defect in visual perception, also known as “filling-in,” commonly is experienced by people with visual field cuts or defects (scotoma).  

Per hundred; one of each hundred. The symbol % is used to indicate that the preceding number is a percentage rather than an absolute number. Thus, 8% of 50 is 4; whereas 8% of 500 is 40.  

An acid that contains the highest valence possible.  

A parasitic placental twin. It does not contain a head or arms, and the thorax is malformed.