Category: V

The subjective perception of the sensations of the internal organs.  

Incision into the abdominal cavity through the vagina.  

A seal between the oral and nasopharyngeal cavities.  

A congenital abnormality in which an arterial ring encircles the trachea and esophagus. This causes signs of compression of their structures. Surgery may be required to relieve the symptoms.  

A rare form of rickets that is not caused by vitamin D deficiency and is thus not responsive to vitamin D treatment. It is caused by a defect in renal tubular function that results in excessive loss of phosphorus.  

The pace and synchrony of ventricular depolarization.  

One of two plexuses within the vertebral canal that extends from the foramen magnum to the coccyx. These retia lie posteriorly and laterally to the dura and between the dura and the arches of the vertebrae.  

The technology used to improve speech in a patient who has had a laryngectomy.  

Increased respiration in one lung when respiration in the other is lessened or abolished.  

The resonance obtained by percussion of normal lungs.