Category: B

A cough heard in patients with bronchiectasis or bronchitis. It may be provoked by a change of posture, as when getting up in the morning, and produces frothy mucus that is copious, dirty gray, and has a fetid odor. The cough is hacking and irritating in the earlier stages; in later stages it is looser…

A dry cough heard in patients who have pressure on the left recurrent laryngeal nerve, as in aortic aneurysm or in those with laryngeal inflammation.  

Squeezing the breast between movable grids prior to mammographic or magnetic resonance imaging.  

Compounds containing barium and suitable diluents or additives. They are used in the form of insoluble barium sulfate, to visualize, that is, to outline, the hollow viscera in roentgenography. Poisoning occasionally occurs when the soluble salts are used accidentally in place of the insoluble sulfate.  

A coma caused by ingestion or injection of barbiturates. It is used clinically in the treatment of elevated intracranial pressure.  

Right upper quadrant pain resulting from obstruction of a bile duct by a gallstone.  

An opening between the branchial arches of an embryo. In lower vertebrates it becomes a gill cleft.  

Secretion and reuptake of the sodium glycocholate and taurocholate found in hepatic bile. Bile salts enter the duodenum and emulsify fats in the small intestine. They are resorbed in the terminal ileum and returned to the liver in portal blood.  

A chromosome specially stained to delineate bands of various widths on its regions or loci. This facilitates analysis and investigation of genes and gene-related illnesses.  

A daily chart of temperature obtained upon awakening. Some women are able to predict the time of ovulation by carefully analyzing the character and rhythm of the temperature chart. This information and other data can be used to establish that the woman is ovulating. Use of this method to control conception by predicting time of…