Category: F

A British philanthropist, 1820— 1910, who is considered the founder of nursing as a profession, a formidable statistician, and a pioneering hospital reformer. She was one of many trained nurses to serve in Crimea and dramatically lowered the death rate in the British army by advocating cleanliness and reform of sanitary conditions in hospitals at…

At birth, a tuft of hair over the lower spinal column. It may be associated with spina bifida occulta.  

A tumor arising from the connective tissue of nerves, including the myelin sheath.  

A mixed nerve consisting of efferent fibers supplying the facial muscles, the platysma muscle, the submandibular and sublingual glands; and of afferent fibers from taste buds of the anterior two thirds of the tongue and from the muscles. The afferent fibers originate from the geniculate ganglion and the motor and secretory fibers from nuclei in…

Necrosis in small scattered areas, often seen in infection.  

Infection of a nail by one of a number of fungi. Systemic therapy with antifungal drugs may eradicate the infection.  

Myelopathy of small areas of the spinal cord.  

An altered gene that proliferates in a kinship or community from a single identifiable ancestor.  

An autosomal dominant mutation in coagulation factor V that is found in about 5% of all whites. It produces a hypercoagulable state as a result of inherited resistance to activated protein C. Clinically, it is found in many patients with deep venous thrombosis.  

A muscle of the hand originating on the flexor retinaculum and trapezium, trapezoid, and capitate and inserted on the lateral side of the base of the first phalanx of the thumb. It flexes the thumb at both the carpometacarpal joint and the metacarpophalangeal joint and is controlled by the median and the ulnar nerves.