Category: F

  • Fungistat

    A compound that inhibits the proliferation of a fungal organism while avoiding its demise.  

  • Forma specialis

    A taxon characterized from a physiological [especially host adaptation] standpoint but scarcely or not at all from a morphological standpoint.  

  • Field immune

    Despite their susceptibility to pathogenic infection under experimental conditions, the subjects remained uninfected whilst in the field.  

  • Feeding period

    The period that a test vector actually feeds on a virus source, or on a recipient plant.  

  • Fasciation

    This sentence describes a phenomenon wherein a shoot grows uncontrollably, appearing as a flattened bundle of shoots due to incomplete separation of its elements. This phenomenon is commonly referred to as a “witches’ broom”, wherein the shoots multiply but do not merge together into a cohesive structure.  

  • Feldenkrais

    The utilization of languid, delicate corporeal movements to augment scope of motion, advance suppleness, and enhance muscular synchronicity.  

  • Functional pain

    Pain in the absence of an apparent cause (in contrast with organic pain, for which definite causes always can be found). Chronic pain states in which this occurs include those of irritable bowel syndrome, interstitial cystitis, and fibromyalgia.  

  • Fu zheng

    Chinese herbal therapy, mostly ginseng and astragalus, that extends life expectancy of patients with rapidly advancing cancers.  

  • Functional syndrome

    A health condition with no detectable organic cause.  

  • Forgiveness

    An act of giving up resentments toward those we perceive to have harmed us or another and letting go of claims for retribution and restitution.