Category: F

Minute hairs. A very small fiber or a constituent thread of a fiber (for example, a myofibril of a muscle fiber),      

Excessive flow or discharge.  

Abnormal connections between an organ, vessel or intestine and another structure, usually due to injury, surgery or result from infection or inflammation.  

An agent that kills filariae, nematodes that as adults are parasites in the blood or tissues of mammals and as larvae usually develop in biting insects.  

Non-cancerous tumours made of muscle cells and tissues that grow in and around the wall of the uterus or womb. An encapsulated tumor made up of disorganized and irregular connective tissue. Also called a leiomyoma or fibromyoma (or myofibroma, for that matter). A uterine fibroid is benign, there may be one or many, they grow…

Funistrada does not exist. It is an imaginary food name invented by the U.S. armed forces to see if the participants of written food surveys were paying attention to the questions or just answering randomly. In a 1974 survey, respondents ranked funistrada higher than eggplant, instant coffee, apricot pie, Harvard beets, canned lima beans, grilled…

Fumosity refers to the potential of a given food to induce flatulence. Currently, no standard of fumosity has been established, although one based on logarithms, like the Richter scale for earthquakes, would seem most appropriate. First used in the fifteenth century, the word derives from the Latin fumus, meaning smoke or steam. From the same…

Fu yung, a sauce made of eggs and vegetables, was invented in the United States by Chinese immigrants; its name, which appeared in English in the early twentieth century, is Cantonese for lotus.