Category: H

A type of ventilation that continuously ventilates at 100 to 150 cycles/min. It is used in respiratory failure to provide continuous ventilation without the side effects of positive-pressure ventilation.  

Narrowing of the small arterioles in the alveoli in response to hypoxia.  

A vacuole that contains substances that come from outside the cell.  

An inactivated virus vaccine prepared from fixed rabies virus grown in human diploid cell tissue culture.  

A vaccine derived from an organism different from the organism against which the vaccine is used.  

A vaccine made from some source other than the patient’s own tissues or cells; the opposite of autogenous vaccine. A vaccine created from microorganisms obtained from a source other than the patient’s own body.  

A vaccine prepared from hepatitis B protein antigen produced by genetically engineered yeast. The vaccine prevents acute infection with hepatitis B, the chronic carrier state of hepatitis B infection. In developing nations where hepatitis B infection is endemic, it has been shown to decrease the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma resulting from hepatitis B infection. The…

A vaccine created by combining purified polysaccharide antigen from the H. influenzae bacteria and a carrier protein. It reduces the risks of childhood epiglottitis, meningitis, and other diseases caused by H. influenzae.  

The most abundant protein of renal origin in normal urine. This glycoprotein is the same protein termed Tamm-Horsfall mucoprotein.  

A tumor in which the tissue resembles that in which it is growing.