Category: F

The reduction of the length of the end-diastolic diameter that occurs by the end of systole. Like the ejection fraction, this is a measure of the heart’s muscular contractility. If the diameter fails to shorten by at least 28%, the efficiency of the heart in ejecting blood is impaired.  

The urinary sodium concentration multiplied by the plasma creatinine concentration multiplied by 100, all divided by the product of the plasma sodium concentration and the urinary creatinine concentration.  

The concentration of oxygen in the inspired air, especially that supplied as supplemental oxygen by mask or catheter. Concentrations of oxygen greater than 50% are toxic if administered for more than a few days.  

ln biological chemistry, the separable part of a substance such as blood or plasma.  

A chronic pruritic papular eruption of areas of the skin that contain apocrine sweat glands. The intraepidermal ducts of the apocrine glands become obstructed and eventually rupture. The disease occurs mostly in persons 13 to 35 years of age and about 10 times more frequently in women than men. It does not occur before puberty.…

A minute pit or depression.  

In the eye, the pit in the middle of the macula lutea that contains only cones. In contemporary usage it is simply called the foveola.  

The depression on the head of the femur for attachment of the ligamentum teres.  

Massage by kneading with pressure on the muscles.  

Scarlatina anginosa, an ulcerative sore throat present in severe scarlet fever. Another term for trigeminal neuralgia, a condition affecting the trigeminal nerve (the fifth cranial nerve that provides the facial muscles).