Category: F

Mandibulofacial dysostosis with hypoplasia of the facial bones, downward angulation of the palpebral fissures, macrostomia, ear defects, and defectively formed extremities. Treacher-Collins syndrome, a rare genetic disorder, leads to severe facial malformations. The condition is present from birth (congenital). It causes deformities in the nose, cheekbones, lower jaw, and chin, and may also result in…

The primary lesion of yaws in the form of a protruding nodule. This mother yaw appears at the site of inoculation of the causative agent, Treponema pertenue.  

Area on an immunoglobulin (antibody) to which antigens bind.  

Area on an immunoglobulin (antibody) to which antigens bind. The enzyme papain splits antibodies into three fragments, two Fab fragments, each of which is antigen-specific, and an Fc or crystallizable fragment, which is involved in secondary antibody activities such as activating complement.  

A part broken off a larger entity.  

The tendency of red blood cells to rupture. This is determined by subjecting the cells to different concentrations of saline in laboratory tests.  

Brittleness; having the property of being readily broken, injured, or damaged.  

An unstable fracture of the cervical spine in which a small fragment of the anteroinferior corner of a vertebral body avulses from the rest of the vertebra as a result of massive flexion applied to the cervical spine. Patients with this fracture have sustained injuries to all the spinal ligaments and usually severe spinal cord…

A narrow split in the bone that does not go through to the other side of the bone.  

A collection of urine taken during a few specified hours or from a specified quantity rather than from the entire amount voided during a day.