Category: F

Difficulty in walking caused by stroke, tumor, or atrophy of the frontal lobes of the brain. Affected persons have difficulty lifting their feet from the floor, take short steps, and walk with their feet widely separated.  

A gait in which first the right crutch and the left foot are advanced consecutively, and then the left crutch and the right foot are moved forward.  

In radiographic image intensification, the ratio of the number of light photons at the output phosphor to the number of photons at the input phosphor.  

In massage, beating with light rods.  

Infection with fusiform bacilli and spirochetes, such as necrotizing gingivitis.  

A substance that can cause cellular membranes to merge.  

Any combination of radiological technologies for generating images of body structures. Some examples of fusion imaging are positron emission tomography-computed tomographic (PET-CT) scanning, in which the molecular data derived from a PET scan are combined with high-resolution anatomical data from a CT scan; CT- magnetic resonance fusion imaging; and single photon emissions computed tomographic (SPECT)…

To the motor innervation of the intrafusal muscle fibers originating in the gamma efferent neurons of the ventral horns of the spinal cord.  

A brown pigment, a melanin, present in the outermost layer (pigmented epithelium) of the retina.  

Infection or intoxication by species of the genus Fusarium. It typically affects immunocompromised patients.