Author: Glossary
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Textured food
Food products manufactured from various nutritional components made to resemble conventional protein-source foods, such as meat, seafood, or poultry, in texture.
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Risky food
Foods that are contaminated, or more likely than most other foods to be contaminated with bacteria, carcinogens, or toxins.
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Food rendering
The conversion of the waste products of animal butchery into feeds, bone meal, tallows, oils, and fertilizer. Rendered feed products are sometimes the source of animal and human infections. The conversion of the waste products of animal butchery into feeds, bone meal, tallows, oils, and fertilizer. Consumption of rendered feed products sometimes results in animal…
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Medical food
A food formulated by the selective use of nutrients and manufactured for the dietary treatment of a specific condition.
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Fontan procedure
A procedure used to repair complex congenital heart defects such as a single ventricle, that prevent oxygen from reaching the systemic circulation. The superior vena cava (SVC) is divided adjacent to its entry to the right atrium; the pulmonary trunk is divided close to the pulmonic valve and both ends are closed. The distal and…
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Fontana’s spaces
The spaces between the processes of the ligamentum pectinatum of the iris. These convey the aqueous humor. Spaces in scleral meshwork in angle of the iris through which the aqueous humor passes from the anterior chamber to the canal of Schlemm.
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Fomepizole 4-methylpyrazole
A drug used as an antidote for ethylene glycol (antifreeze) poisoning.
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Follistatin
A protein that regulates the actions of activins in the body. It antagonizes the effects of many members of the transforming growth factor family of cytokines. One function of follistatin is to decrease the secretion of FSH.
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Folliculosis
The presence of an abnormal number of lymph follicles.
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Folliculoma
A tumor of the ovary originating in a graafian follicle in which the cells resemble those of the stratum granulosum.