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mondofacto - Online Medical Dictionary Category: Health and Medicine > Medical Dictionary Date & country: 26/01/2008, UK Words: 116197

traumatic encephalopathy
An encephalopathy resulting from structural brain injury. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

traumatic fever
Elevation of temperature following an injury. ... Synonym: symptomatic fever, wound fever. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

traumatic gastritis
A condition of cattle, caused by the penetration of the stomach wall, usually the reticulum, by any kind of sharp object (usually metallic) which has been swallowed. ... Synonym: hardware disease, traumatic reticuloperitonitis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

traumatic herpes
Herpes simplex infection at the site of trauma or of a burn, sometimes accompanied by temperature elevation and malaise. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

traumatic meningocele
Synonym for spurious meningocele ... An extracranial or extraspinal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid, due to meningeal tear. ... Synonym: traumatic meningocele. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

traumatic neurasthenia
Synonym for posttraumatic syndrome ... <syndrome> A clinical disorder that often follows head injury, characterised by headache, dizziness, neurasthenia, hypersensitivity to stimuli, and diminished concentration. ... Synonym: traumatic neurasthenia. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

traumatic neuritis
Nerve lesion following an injury. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

traumatic neurosis
Any functional nervous disorder following an accident or injury. ... See: posttraumatic stress disorder. ... Synonym: accident neurosis, posttraumatic neurosis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

traumatic occlusion
Synonym for traumatogenic occlusion ... A malocclusion capable of producing injury to the teeth and/or associated structures. ... Synonym: traumatic occlusion. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

traumatic orchitis
Simple inflammation of the testis caused by mechanical injury. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

traumatic pneumonia
Synonym for contusion pneumonia ... Inflammation of the lungs following a severe blow on or compression of the chest, or following a wound of the lung itself. ... Synonym: traumatic pneumonia. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

traumatic psychosis
A psychosis resulting from physical injury or emotional shock. ... Compare: posttraumatic psychosis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

traumatic reticuloperitonitis
Synonym for traumatic gastritis ... A condition of cattle, caused by the penetration of the stomach wall, usually the reticulum, by any kind of sharp object (usually metallic) which has been swallowed. ... Synonym: hardware disease, traumatic reticuloperitonitis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

traumatic retinopathy
Synonym for Purtscher's retinopathy ... Transient traumatic retinal angiopathy due to a sudden rise in venous pressure, as in compression of the body from seat belt injury; ocular fundi show large white patches associated with the retinal veins about the disk or macula, haemorrhages, and retinal oedema; thought to be due to fat embolism from bone ma …

traumatic tetanus
Tetanus following infection of a wound. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

traumatise
To cause or inflict trauma. ... Origin: G. Traumatizo, to wound ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

traumato-
Traumat-traum- ... Wound, injury. ... Origin: G. Trauma ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

traumatogenic occlusion
A malocclusion capable of producing injury to the teeth and/or associated structures. ... Synonym: traumatic occlusion. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

traumatology
The branch of surgery which deals with wounds and disability from injuries. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

traumatonesis
Surgical repair of an accidental wound. ... Origin: traumato-+ G. Neis, a spinning ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

traumatopathy
Any pathologic condition resulting from violence or wounds. ... Origin: traumato-+ G. Pathos, suffering ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

traumatopnea
Passage of air in and out through a wound of the chest wall. ... Origin: traumato-+ G. Pnoe, breath ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

traumatopyra
An obsolete synonym of traumatic fever. ... Origin: traumato-+ G. Pyr, fire, fever ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

traumatosepsis
Infection of a wound; septicaemia following a wound. ... Origin: traumato-+ G. Sepsis, putrefaction ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

traumatotherapy
Treatment of trauma or the result of injury. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Trautmann
Moritz F., German otologist, 1832-1902. ... See: Trautmann's triangular space. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Trautmann's triangular space
The area of the temporal bone bounded by the sigmoid sinus, the superior petrosal sinus, and a tangent to the posterior semicircular canal. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Travase
<enzyme> Used in treatment of burns; derived from filtration of cultures of a strain of bacillus subtilis ... Registry number: EC 3.4.21.- ... Synonym: sultilains, sutilains ... (26 Jun 1999) ...

trave
1. A crossbeam; a lay of joists. ... 2. A wooden frame to confine an unruly horse or ox while shoeing. 'She sprung as a colt doth in the trave.' (Chaucer) ... Origin: Through French, fr. L. Trabs, trabis, a beam; cf. OF. Tref a beam, also F. Travail a frame to confine a horse, OE. Trave, trevys, travise, It. Travaglio, F. Travee the space between two …

travel
Aspects of health and disease related to travel. It includes the physiologic and psychologic beneficial or adverse effects of travel in general or with regard to specific diseases. It includes also emporiatrics, the specialty devoted to the medical aspects of travel. It excludes study tours. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

traveler
1. One who travels; one who has traveled much. ... 2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc. ... 3. <machinery> A traveling crane. See Crane. ... 4. The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner. ... 5. An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar …

traveler's diarrhoea
<gastroenterology> A form of gastroenteritis that is through travel to developing countries. most often caused by a toxigenic E. Coli bacteria. Other causative agents include: Shigella, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Rotavirus, Giardia and amoebas. ... Symptoms include diarrhoea, vomiting, abdominal pain and anorexia. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...

traveling grate
A type of furnace in which assembled links of grates are joined together in a perpetual belt arrangement. Fuel is fed in at one end and ash is discharged at the other. ... (05 Dec 1998) ...

traverse
1. To lay in a cross direction; to cross. 'The parts should be often traversed, or crossed, by the flowing of the folds.' (Dryden) ... 2. To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught. 'I can not but . . . Admit the force of this reasoning, which I yet hope to traverse.' (Sir W. Scott) ... 3. To wander over; …

travertine
<chemical> A white concretionary form of calcium carbonate, usually hard and semicrystalline. It is deposited from the water of springs or streams holding lime in solution. Extensive deposits exist at Tivoli, near Rome. ... Origin: F. Travertin, It. Travertino, tiburtino, L. Lapis Tiburtinus, fr. Tibur an ancient town of Latium, now Tivoli. …

trawl
To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl. ... Origin: OF. Trauler, troller, F. Troter, to drag about, to stroll about; probably of Teutonic origin. Cf. Troll. ... 1. A fishing line, often extending a mile or more, having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it. It is used for catching cod, halibut, etc.; a boulter. ... 2. A large bag …

tray
Origin: OE. Treye, AS. Treg. Cf. Trough. ... 1. A small trough or wooden vessel, sometimes scooped out of a block of wood, for various domestic uses, as in making bread, chopping meat, etc. ... 2. A flat, broad vessel on which dishes, glasses, etc, are carried; a waiter; a salver. ... 3. A shallow box, generally without a top, often used within a ches …

trazodone
<drug> This prescription drug is used to treat depression, it also has sedative properties. ... It may cause permanent impotence in a small minority of men. It may cause a wide variety of side effects, including an increase in prolactin secretion. ... (19 Jan 1998) ...

trazodone hydrochloride
2-[3-[4-(m-Chlorophenyl)-1-piperazinyl]propyl]-s-triazolo[4,3-a]pyridin-3(2H)one monohydrochloride;an antidepressant structurally unrelated to other antidepressants. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

tre
<oncogene> Human oncogene probably encoding a transcription factor. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

Treacher Collins
See: Collins. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Treacher Collins' syndrome
<syndrome> Mandibulofacial dysostosis, when limited to the orbit and malar region. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

treacle
1. <medicine> A remedy against poison. See Theriac. 'We kill the viper, and make treacle of him.' (Jer. Taylor) ... 2. A sovereign remedy; a cure. 'Christ which is to every harm treacle.' (Chaucer). ... 3. Molasses; sometimes, specifically, the molasses which drains from the sugar-refining molds, and which is also called sugarhouse molasses. …

tread
1. To set the foot; to step. 'Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise.' (Pope) 'Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.' (Pope) 'The hard stone Under our feet, on which we tread and go.' (Chaucer) ... 2. To walk or go; especially, to walk with a stately or a cautious step. 'Ye that . . . Stately tread, or lowly creep.' (Milton) ... 3. T …

treadmill, exercise
A continuous EKG recording of the heart as the patient performs increasing levels of exercise. In addition to detecting abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias), the exercise treadmill is a screening test for the presence of narrowed coronary arteries that can limit the supply of oxygenated blood to the heart muscle during exercise. ... (12 Dec 1998) …

treadmilling
<cell biology> Name given to the proposed process in microtubules in which there is continual addition of subunits at one end and disassembly at the other, so that the tubule stays of constant length, but individual subunits move along. ... Could in principle be used as a transport mechanism, although this is not currently favoured as a possib …

treat
1. To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly. ... 2. To discourse on; to handle in a particular manner, in writing or speaking; as, to treat a subject diffusely. ... 3. To entertain with food or drink, especially the latter, as a compliment, or as an expression of friendship or r …

treatment
Medical or surgical management of a patient. ... See: therapy, therapeutics. ... Origin: Fr. Traitement (see treat) ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

treatment card
<dentistry> A sheet of paper or special index card used to record your treatment progress. ... (08 Jan 1998) ...

treatment denture
A dental prosthesis used for the purpose of treating or conditioning the tissues which are called upon to support and retain a denture base. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

treatment failure
A measure of the quality of health care by assessing the unsuccessful results or consequences of management and procedures used in combating disease. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

treatment ind
An FDA-approved program that allows a physician to procure an experimental drug for seriously ill patients who have no other treatment options in exchange for data on the safety and perhaps the effectiveness of the drug. ... See: compassionate use, parallel track, expanded access. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

treatment outcome
Studies undertaken to assess the results or consequences of management and procedures used in combating disease in order to determine the efficacy, effectiveness, safety, practicability, etc., of these interventions. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

treatment protocol program
An FDA initiative to allow terminally ill patients to be given experimental drugs. ... (14 Nov 1997) ...

treatment refusal
Refusal of a person to accept medical or psychiatric treatment or his unwillingness to comply with the physician's instructions or prescribed regimens. In the case of a legally incompetent person the concept may include a third party authorised to make decisions on his behalf. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

treble
The highest of the four principal parts in music; the part usually sung by boys or women; soprano. ... This is sometimes called the first treble, to distinguish it from the second treble, or alto, which is sung by lower female voices. ... Origin: ' It has been said to be a corruption of triplum [Lat], a third part, superadded to the altus and bassus …

tree
<botany> A woody plant at least 5 metres high, with a main stem the lower part of which is usually unbranched. ... (19 Jan 1998) ...

tree measurement sale
A type of timber sale contract in which the buyer and seller argree upon the volume at the time of the sale. ... (05 Dec 1998) ...

trees
Woody, usually tall, perennial higher plants (angiosperms, gymnosperms, and some pterophyta) having usually a main stem and numerous branches. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

trefoil
1. <botany> Any plant of the genus Trifolium, which includes the white clover, red clover, etc.; less properly, applied also to the nonesuch, or black medic. See Clover, and Medic. ... 2. An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils. ... 3. A charge representing the clover leaf. ... Origin: L. Tres three + E. Foil leaf; cf. F. …

trefoil dermatitis
Synonym for trifoliosis ... A form of photosensitization that occurs in horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs from eating several types of clover and alfalfa. ... Synonym: clover disease, trefoil dermatitis. ... Origin: L. Trifolium, trefoil, clover ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

trefoil polypeptide
A group of polypeptides that share the trefoil moiety of a highly stable three-loop structure held together by disulfide bonds based on cysteine residues; they are widely expressed in gastrointestinal tissues and secreted by mucous cells; their functions are as yet unknown. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

trefoil tendon
Synonym for central tendon of diaphragm ... A three-lobed fibrous sheet occupying the centre of the diaphragm. ... Synonym: centrum tendineum diaphragmatis, trefoil tendon. ... Central tendon of perineum, the fibromuscular mass between the anal canal and the urogenital diaphragm in the median plane; midline episiotomies extend into this structure. ... …

trehalase
<enzyme> An enzyme that catalyses the conversion of alpha,alpha-trehalose and water to d-glucose. ... Chemical name: alpha,alpha-Trehalose glucohydrolase ... Registry number: EC 3.2.1.28 ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

trehalose
<chemical> A disaccharide sugar (342 D) found widely in invertebrates, bacteria, algae, plants and fungi, formed by the dimerisation of glucose. ... Yields glucose on acid hydrolysis. ... (19 Jan 1998) ...

trehalose mycolyltransferase
<enzyme> From mycobacterium smegmatis; catalyses exchange of a mycolyl group between trehalose, trehalose 6-monomycolate and trehalose 6,6'-dimycolate ... Registry number: EC 2.3.1.- ... Synonym: alpha, alpha'-trehalose 6-monomycolate-alpha, alpha'-trehalose mycolyltransferse ... (26 Jun 1999) ...

trehalose synthase
<enzyme> Catalyses the conversion of maltose into alpha,alpha-trehalose by intramolecular transglucosylation; mw about 62 kD; genbank d78198 ... Registry number: EC 2.4.1.- ... Synonym: tres gene product, tres enzyme ... (26 Jun 1999) ...

trehalose-phosphatase
<enzyme> Chemical name: trehalose-6-phosphate phosphohydrolase ... Registry number: EC 3.1.3.12 ... Synonym: trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase, otsb protein, otsb gene product, orla gene product ... (26 Jun 1999) ...

Treitz
Wenzel, Bohemian pathologist, 1819-1872. ... See: Treitz's arch, Treitz's fascia, Treitz's fossa, Treitz's hernia, Treitz's ligament, Treitz's muscle. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Treitz's arch
Synonym for paraduodenal fold ... A sickle-shaped fold of peritoneum sometimes found arching between the left side of the duodenojejunal flexure and the medial border of the left kidney; its right free edge contains the ascending branch of the left colic artery and inferior mesenteric vein; forms anterior boundary of the paraduodenal recess. ... See: …

Treitz's fascia
Fascia behind the head of the pancreas. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Treitz's fossa
Synonym for subcaecal fossa ... An inconstant depression in the peritoneum extending posterior to the caecum. ... Synonym: Treitz's fossa. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Treitz's hernia
Synonym for duodenojejunal hernia ... A hernia in the subperitoneal tissues. ... Synonym: retroperitoneal hernia, Treitz's hernia. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Treitz's ligament
Synonym for suspensory muscle of duodenum ... A broad flat band of smooth muscle and fibrous tissue attached to the right crus of the diaphragm and to the duodenum at its junction with the jejunum. ... Synonym: musculus suspensorius duodeni, Treitz's ligament, Treitz's muscle. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Treitz's muscle
Synonym for suspensory muscle of duodenum ... A broad flat band of smooth muscle and fibrous tissue attached to the right crus of the diaphragm and to the duodenum at its junction with the jejunum. ... Synonym: musculus suspensorius duodeni, Treitz's ligament, Treitz's muscle. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Trelat, Ulysse
<person> French surgeon, 1828-1890. ... See: Trelat's stools, Leser-Trelat sign, Trelat's sign. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Trelat's sign
<clinical sign> An obsolete sign; the presence of disseminated yellowish spots in the neighborhood of tuberculous ulcers of the mouth; they are minute tubercles or miliary abscesses. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Trelat's stools
Glairy stool's streaked with blood, occurring in proctitis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

trema
Synonym: foramen, vulva. ... Origin: G. Trema, a hole ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

trematoda
Class of parasitic flukes consisting of three subclasses, monogenea, aspidogastrea, and digenea. The digenetic trematodes are the only ones found in man. They are endoparasites and require two hosts to complete their life cycle. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

trematode infections
Infections caused by infestation with worms of the class trematoda. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

trematodea
<zoology> An extensive order of parasitic worms. They are found in the internal cavities of animals belonging to all classes. Many species are found, also, on the gills and skin of fishes. A few species are parasitic on man, and some, of which the fluke is the most important, are injurious parasites of domestic animals. The trematodes usually …

trembles
An intoxication of cattle, caused by eating white snakeroot, Eupatorium urticaefolium, or the rayless goldenrod; the active agent is a higher alcohol, tremetol, which intoxicated cows eliminate in their milk, causing milk sickness when ingested by humans. ... Origin: L. Tremulus, trembling, fr. Tremo, to tremble ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

trembling palsy
Synonym for parkinsonism ... <neurology> A group of neurological disorders characterised by hypokinesia, tremor and muscular rigidity. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

tremelloid
Jelly-like. ... Origin: L. Tremulus, trembling ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

tremex
<zoology> A genus of large hymenopterous insects allied to the sawflies. The female lays her eggs in holes which she bores in the trunks of trees with her large and long ovipositor, and the larva bores in the wood. ... The pigeon tremex (Tremex columba), a common American species, infests the elm, pear, and other trees. ... Source: Websters Dic …

tremogram
The graphic representation of a tremor taken by means of the tremograph or kymograph. ... Synonym: tremorgram. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

tremograph
An apparatus for making a graphic record of a tremor. ... Origin: L. Tremor, a shaking, + G. Grapho, to write ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

tremolabile
Inactivated or destroyed by shaking. ... Origin: L. Tremor, a shaking, + labilis, perishable ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

tremophobia
<psychology> Morbid fear of trembling. ... Origin: L. Tremor, trembling, + G. Phobos, fear ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

tremor
<clinical sign> An involuntary trembling or quivering. ... Origin: L., from tremere = to shake ... (19 Jan 1998) ...

tremor artuum
Trembling of the extremities, especially of the hands. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

tremor opiophagorum
A tremor occurring in opium addicts. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

tremor potatorum
A tremor occurring in the subjects of chronic alcoholism. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

tremor tendinum
Synonym for subsultus tendinum ... A twitching of the tendons, especially noticeable at the wrist, occurring in low fevers. ... Synonym: subsultus clonus, tremor tendinum. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

tremorgram
Synonym for tremogram ... The graphic representation of a tremor taken by means of the tremograph or kymograph. ... Synonym: tremorgram. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

tremorine
<chemical> Chemical name: Pyrrolidine, 1,1'-(2-butyne-1,4-diyl)bis- ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

tremostable
Not subject to alteration or destruction by being shaken. ... Origin: L. Tremor, a shaking, + stabilis, stable ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

tremulor
An instrument for giving vibratory massage. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

tremulous
1. Shaking; shivering; quivering; as, a tremulous limb; a tremulous motion of the hand or the lips; the tremulous leaf of the poplar. ... 2. Affected with fear or timidity; trembling. 'The tender, tremulous Christian.' (Dr. H. More) Trem'ulously, Trem'ulousness. ... Origin: L. Tremulus, fr. Tremere to tremble. See Tremble. ... Source: Websters Diction …