Author: Glossary
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Abductor muscle
A muscle that on contraction draws a part away from the median plane of the body or the axial line of an extremity.
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Musca domestica
The common house fly. It may mechanically transmit the causative agents of typhoid fever, bacillary and amebic dysentery, cholera, trachoma, and many other diseases to humans.
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Musca
A genus of flies belonging to the order Diptera, family Muscidae.
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Murphy’s button
Mechanical device used for intestinal anastomosis consisting of two buttonlike hollow cylinders. Each cylinder is sutured to an open end of the intestine, then they are fitted together. After firm union of the ends of the intestine, the sutures separate and the cylinders are passed in stools.
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Tricuspid murmur
A murmur produced at the orifice of the tricuspid valve and caused by stenosis or incompetency of the valve.
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Seagull murmur
A murmur that resembles the cry of a seagull; sometimes associated with aortic insufficiency.
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Regurgitant murmur
A murmur due to leakage or backward flow of blood through a dilated valvular orifice.
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Pulmonary murmur
A murmur produced at the orifice of the pulmonary artery.
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Presystolic murmur
A murmur occurring just before systole, due to mitral or tricuspid obstruction.
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Musical murmur
A cardiac murmur with sounds that have an intermittent harmonic pattern.