Glossary

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  • Personal radiation monitor

    A small device worn or carried by a person to measure the accumulated radiation dosage over a period of time.  

  • Peak flow monitor

    A hand-held device used to assess the maximum expiratory flow (in liters/minute) in patients with asthma and chronic obstructive lung disease.  

  • Impedance monitor

    A device used to detect variations in respiratory rate and volume. It measures changes in the electrical impedance of the chest as the patient breathes. It may be used in intensive care units to monitor critically ill patients or in private residences to detect apnea, especially in sleeping infants.  

  • Blood pressure monitor

    A device that automatically obtains and usually records the blood pressure at certain intervals, using the direct or indirect method of determining pressure. In some models, an alarm or light signal is activated if the pressure rises or falls to an abnormal level.  

  • Moniliid

    A skin eruption due to hypersensitivity to a Candida infection in another part of the body.  

  • Monestrous

    Having a single estrous cycle in a single sexual season.  

  • Moneme

    The smallest unit of intelligible or meaningful speech, e.g., a word composed of a single syllable.  

  • Mondor’s disease

    Thrombosis and sclerosis of a subcutaneous vein or veins in the breast or chest wall sometimes extending from the axilla to the epigastrium. The condition may occur after trauma or appear without apparent cause. Although a benign, self-limiting disease, its appearance may be confused with breast cancer.  

  • Mondonesi’s reflex

    In coma, contraction of facial muscles following pressure on the eyeball.  

  • Monascus purpureus

    Red yeast, a traditional Chinese medicine used as a food preservative in the past and as a contemporary alternative medication to lower serum cholesterol levels.