Category: V

A form of computer-assisted education in which students participate in their studies by accessing recorded lectures, case-based tutorials, weblinks, audio and video clips, and e-mail, instead of gathering in a single geographically limited location for group lectures and laboratory study.  

A strain of Enterococcus faecium resistant to antibiotics, including penicillins, aminoglycosides, and vancomycin. Infection with VRE presents a major threat to infected patients; although it can be treated with linezolid, its antibiotic resistance can be transferred to other gram-positive organisms, such as Staphylococcus aureus, making these bacteria also more difficult to eradicate.  

Endocarditis associated with fibrinous clots on ulcerated valvular surfaces.  

Endocarditis affecting the heart valves find not the inner lining of the heart.  

An elastic band applied to arch brackets perpendicularly to the occlusal plane for approximating teeth.  

Forceful expulsion of blood from the ventricles of the heart.  

The spreading of vaccinia virus to localized areas of skin, or to the entire body, in patients recently vaccinated against smallpox. This reaction is a rare complication of smallpox vaccination, occurring in about 40 per million of newly vaccinated individuals. It usually occurs in people with pre-existing eczema and is occasionally fatal.  

Generalized constant, severe burning vulvar pain of unknown origin.  

Dysentery caused by a virus, especially rotaviruses, Norwalk-like viruses, coronaviruses, and enteric adenoviruses.  

Double vision with one of two images higher than the other.