Author: Glossary

An order of parasitic flatworms belonging to the class Trematoda. It reproduces asexually, lives usually in molluscs, and alternates with a sexual generation living in vertebrates as their final host. It includes all four groups of flukes parasitic in humans.  

Having two bellies; said of certain muscles.  

In dialysis, the portion of a liquid that passes through a membrane and that contains crystalloid matter in solution.  

The device in a spectrophotometer that disperses white light into the colors (wavelengths) of the electromagnetic spectrum, using multiple lines precisely etched into an optically aligned material such as a specialized mirror or metal plate.  

The use of medications to make cancer cells evolve into cells no longer capable of infinite replication.  

The use of different ventilatory strategies in each lung in a patient with focal lung disease, e.g., a patient undergoing surgery to remove a tumor in one lobe of a lung but not another, or a patient with more severe COPD on one side of the chest than another. This technique requires a double-lumen endotracheal…

An amplifier used to increase the difference between two signals, one of which is usually a reference.  

Marked by or relating to differences. A hematological analysis that involves the calculation of the proportions of different cell types present in the blood, along with determining the overall count of cells.  

Tenderness, muscular contraction, and skin hyperesthesia at McBurney’s point in acute appendicitis.  

Use of the sciences of dietetics and nutrition in treating disease.