Category: G

Resulting from gravitation, as in a form of gravistatic pulmonary congestion.  

To cardiac disorders that result from the physiological changes associated with pregnancy.  

Rapid enlargement of the breasts during pregnancy. This may progress to cause severe distention with sloughing of breast tissue, bleeding, and infection. Surgical therapy may be required.  

Ophthalmopathy associated with hyperthyroidism with the clinical characteristics of exophthalmos, periorbital edema, periorbital and conjunctival inflammation, decreased extraocular muscle mobility, and corneal injury. Accompanying these may be lacrimation, eye pain, blurring of vision, photophobia, diplopia, and loss of vision.  

In spectrophotometry, the element used in a monochromator that disperses white light into the visible spectrum.  

A device used to grab and hold tissue (e.g., during laparoscopic surgery).  

A specific type of prehension involving the fingers, the palmar surface, or both.  

One of the allotropes of carbon. Graphite is considered the purest of the forms of coal-anthracite.  

The ability to recognize outlines, numbers, words, or symbols traced or written on the skin.  

Any of a family of proteases stored in the granules of cytotoxic T lymphocytes. They are involved in cytolytic functions.