Author: Glossary

Auscultation by an esophageal tube passed into the stomach or by a tube passed into the heart.  

Surgical opening of an aneurysmal sac and suturing of its orifice.  

The brief, normal period of breath-holding between inhalation and exhalation.  

The terminal or final portion of a tissue or cell.  

A terminal button; the enlarged end of a nerve fiber that terminates adjacent to the dendrite of another nerve cell.  

In physical therapy and rehabilitation, the feeling experienced by an evaluator when overpressure is applied to tissue at the end of the available range of motion. It is interpreted as abnormal when the quality of the feel is different from normal response at that joint. The feeling may be soft as when two muscle groups…

Endemic, but becoming epidemic periodically.  

A condition in which the intima is thickened or replaced with atheromatous or calcium-containing deposits.  

Inflammation of the inner layer of the aorta.  

The innermost layer, or intima, of a blood vessel.