Category: F

Tissue destruction with high-frequency electrical sparks. In medicine, the burning away of a growth by means of a cautery. The removal of a growth such as a wart by burning with an electric needle. Destruction of unwanted tissue by the use of electrical current in the form of sparks. The destruction with a diathermy instrument…

A semi-sitting position, usually at 45 degrees, used to facilitate breathing and drainage. Semireclining in bed, with head of bed elevated. A semi-sitting position. The head of an adjustable bed can be elevated to the desired height to produce angulation of the body, usually 45° to 60°. The knees may or may not be bent.…

A procedure in which light-sensitive material is injected into a blood vessel. Diagnostic procedure in which fluorescein, an orange fluorescent dye, is injected intravenously, traveling to the retinal artery in the eye and causing it to glow fluorescent green on flash photography of the retina. A test using a special camera to photograph blood vessels…

Involuntary contraction or twitching of muscles. Small muscle movements which appear as trembling skin. Uncontrollable, localized contraction of a single muscle group that is visible through the skin. The twitching of an isolated muscle, which may or may not be related to a neuromuscular disorder. Brief spontaneous contraction of a few muscle fibers, which is…

Cardiac arrhythmia characterized by the rapid, incomplete, and uncoordinated contractions of the muscle fibers of ventricles of the heart. Can lead to cardiac arrest. An arrhythmia in which the walls of the ventricle of the heart quiver rather than beat regularly. This causes an interruption of the flow of blood and lack of oxygen to…

Hard, solid, intestinal mass formed around a core of fecal material. Hard mass of feces in the colon, evacuated manually or by means of an oil enema. Hardened feces that become a stone-like mass, occurring most often in the appendix or a diverticulum. A hard, stone like mass of feces. A fecalith can be responsible…

Human conceptus growing in the uterus usually called a fetus from the seventh or eighth week of pregnancy. The developing young in the uterus after the second month pregnancy. The fertilized egg from the end of the embryonic period through birth. An unborn baby from two months after conception until birth, before which it is…

Natural fiber that exists in unprocessed fruits and vegetables.