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  • High frequency chest compressions

    During emergency cardiac care, chest compressions that are given at a rate of more than 100 per minute.  

  • Higher order aberration

    In ophthalmology, a refractive error that cannot be corrected by bending light into the eye with eyeglasses or contact lenses.  

  • High endothelial venule

    A postcapillary venule found in gut-associated lymphoid tissue, e.g., Peyer’s patches, and in lymph nodes. It regulates the movement of lymphocytes in and out of the blood.  

  • High colonic

    Irrigation of the bowel with large volumes of fluid. It is promoted as a form of internal cleansing and detoxification.  

  • Hibernoma

    A rare multilobular encapsulated tumor that contains fetal fat tissue closely resembling the fat stored in the foot pads of hibernating animals.  

  • Artificial hibernation

    A state of hibernation produced therapeutically by use of drugs alone or drugs and hypothermia. This greatly reduces the metabolic rate during procedures such as open heart surgery.  

  • Hiatus semilunaris

    The groove in the external wall of the middle meatus of the nasal fossa into which the frontal sinus, maxillary sinus, and anterior ethmoid sinuses drain. The opening may be blocked in patients with acute or chronic sinusitis.  

  • Sacral hiatus

    The opening on the inferoposterior surface of the sacrum into the sacral canal.  

  • Hiatus maxillaris

    The opening of the maxillary sinus into the nasal cavity, located on the nasal surface of the maxillary bone.  

  • Hiatus esophageus

    The opening in the diaphragm through which the esophagus passes.  

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