Category: F

A formal interview for patients who have suffered a stroke to compare their functional abilities before and after the stroke. The patient describes how employment, meal preparation and clean up, gardening, shopping, and other activities of daily living have been altered by the stroke.  

Osteochondritis of the head of the second metatarsal bone of the foot.  

The delusion that someone is assuming a variety of disguises to pursue one (the patient) with craft and cunning.  

Passing from a liquid to a solid state due to heat loss. While the knowledge of the preservation of food by keeping it cold dates back thousands of years, it is only in recent decades that the freezing and extended cold storage of a diverse range of food items has been extensively explored and implemented.…

A clinic that provides medical care without expecting payment for services. A free clinic typically combines medical services with patient education, patient empowerment, and social work.  

In cardiac physiology, the rule stating that cardiac output increases in proportion to the diastolic stretch of heart muscle fibers.  

A cephalometric plane joining the anthropometric landmarks of porion and orbitale; the reproducible position of the head when the upper margin of the ear openings and lower margin of the orbit of the eye are horizontal.  

Obvious, especially in reference to a clinical sign or condition such as blood in the urine, sputum, or feces.  

A radioactive metallic element occurring as a natural isotope. Its atomic number is 87; the atomic weight of the most stable isotope is 233.  

A gram-negative, aerobic, non-spore-forming bacillus that causes tularemia in humans and animals.