Category: V

The artery passing through the pterygoid canal.  

A closed-circuit television recording technique used to obtain images while the field is illuminated by use of a stroboscope. Using this provides sequential views of objects in motion.  

Diagnosis using data and radiographic images transmitted by the use of television.  

The simultaneous use of digital video recording and 16-channel electroencephalography. It is used as a diagnostic aid in refractory epilepsy and may help confirm a diagnosis of psychogenic seizures.  

A terminal used in information processing (computer terminal) and entertainment (TV picture tube) that produces an image on a screen (target) by bombarding it with electrons. This causes the fluorescent material that coats the screen to emit light. The effects on workers involved with the use of VDTs have been investigated with respect to a…

A brief, recorded, viewable file linked to a website or an electronic message used to educate students or to relay visual information, e.g., from real-time ultrasonography or angiography, from one user to another.  

Any instrument that uses vibrations as a sensory substitute for sound. Vibrotactile aids are used by some deaf people to enhance speech recognition, specifically the intensity, pitch, duration, or patterns of spoken words. Acting as a substitute; pert, to assumption of the function of one organ by another. Facilitated by live televised images; used for…

Pertaining to the sense of touch that perceives vibrations.  

A device used to measure the vibratory sensation threshold. It is particularly useful in judging the progression or remission of peripheral neuropathy.  

A massage in which a mechanical vibrator is used.