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

deliver
1. To assist a woman in childbirth. ... 2. To extract from an enclosed place, as the foetus from the womb, an object or foreign body, e.g., a tumour from its capsule or surroundings, or the lens of the eye in cases of cataract. ... Origin: fr. O. Fr. Fr. L. De-+ liber, free ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

deliverance
1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive. 'He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives.' (Luke iv. 18) 'One death or one deliverance we will share.' (Dryden) ... 2. Act of bringing forth children. ... 3. Act of speaking; utterance …

delivery
Expulsion or extraction of the child and the after-birth. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

delivery of health care
The concept concerned with all aspects of providing and distributing health services to a patient population. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

delivery of health care, integrated
A health care system which combines physicians, hospitals, and other medical services with a health plan to provide the complete spectrum of medical care for its customers. In a fully integrated system, the three key elements - physicians, hospital, and health plan membership - are in balance in terms of matching medical resources with the needs of …

delivery rooms
Hospital units equipped for childbirth. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

delivery system
A manmade system with the purpose of delivering a drug or another chemical directly into a cellular target, such as a via a manmade vesicle called a liposome. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

delivery, breech
A breech delivery is birth, buttocks first. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

delivery, footling
There are single-footling or double-footling deliveries depending upon whether the presenting part of the baby at delivery is just one foot or both feet. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

delivery, vertex
In a vertex delivery, the top of the baby's head comes first. The vertex here refers to the top of the head The word vertex in Latin means a whirlpool, whirlwind, top of the mountain, or the top of the head. Why top of the head ? Because the hairs on the top of the head often form a whorl, a whirl-like pattern. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

delle
The central lighter-coloured portion of the erythrocyte, as observed in a stained film of blood. ... Origin: D. Delle, low ground, pit ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

dellen
Shallow, saucer-like, clearly defined excavations at the margin of the cornea, about 1.5 by 2 mm, due to localised dehydration; also called Fuchs' dellen. ... Origin: D. Pl. Of delle, low ground, pit ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

delomorphous
Of definite form and shape; a term applied in the past to the parietal cells of the gastric glands. ... Origin: G. Delos, manifest, + morphe, form ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

delouse
To remove lice from; to free from infestation with lice; used especially of prophylaxis of louse-borne diseases. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

delphi technique
An iterative questionnaire designed to measure consensus among individual responses. In the classic delphi approach, there is no interaction between responder and interviewer. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

delphian node
A midline prelaryngeal lymph node, adjacent to the thyroid gland, enlargement of which is indicative of thyroid disease or early metastasis from the subglottic larynx. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

delphinic
<chemistry> Pertaining to, or derived from, the dolphin; phocenic. Delphinic acid. ... <chemistry> See Valeric acid, under Valeric. ... See: Delphin. ... <chemistry> Pertaining to, or derived from, the larkspur; specifically, relating to the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria). ... Origin: From NL. Delphinium, the name of the genus.< …

Delphinium ajacis
A species of plant (family Ranuculaceae) containing the alkaloids ajacine and ajaconine; the dried ripe seeds have been used externally as a parasiticide in pediculosis; rarely used now because of its toxicity. ... Synonym: larkspur. ... Origin: G. Delphinion, larkspur ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Delta
Neurogenic locus in Drosophila. Gene product contains 9 repeats of the EGF like domain. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

delta 14-sterol reductase
<enzyme> Reduces ignosterol to ergosterol; NADPH-dependent enzyme that catalyses the formal trans addition of hydrogen across the 14,15-pi bond in 8,14-sterol dienes; forms 4,4-dimethylzymosterol in lanosterol metabolism pathway from 4,4-dimethyl-5alpha-cholesta-8,14,25-trien-3beta-ol or from 4,4-dimethyl-cholesta-8,14,24-trienol; erg24 from …

delta 24-sterol methyltransferase
<enzyme> Substrate sterols may be replaced by specific sterol ... Registry number: EC 2.1.1.41 ... Synonym: s-adenosylmethionine zymosterol methyltransferase, s-adenosylmethionine-delta 24-sterol-c-methyltransferase, sterol c-24 s-adenosylmethionine methyltransferase, sed6 protein, erg6 protein, (s)-adenosyl-l-methionine-delta 24(25)-sterol met …

delta 5,7-sterol delta-7-reductase
<enzyme> Involved in cholesterol biosynthesis, introduces the delta-5 bond into delta 7-cholestenol to form 7-dehydrocholesterol ... Registry number: EC 1.3.1.- ... Synonym: delta 7-sterol reductase, delta 7-sterol desaturase, delta 7-sterol 5-desaturase ... (26 Jun 1999) ...

delta agent
A rare form of viral transfusion hepatitis. A defective viral agent that occurs only in association with hepatitis B infection. The delta agent may also increase the severity of hepatitis B infection. Complications include chronic persistent hepatitis and fulminant hepatitis. A test known as anti-delta agent antibody is positive and used to confirm …

delta alcoholism
Jellinek's term for an advanced form of gamma alcoholism in which the individual has lost the ability to abstain from partaking of alcohol even for a brief period. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

delta antigen
Synonym for hepatitis delta virus ... A defective virus, containing particles of RNA nucleoprotein in virion-like form, present in patients with acute hepatitis b and chronic hepatitis. Officially this is classified as a subviral satellite RNA (RNA, satellite). ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

delta bilirubin
The fraction of bilirubin covalently bound to albumin; in conventional methods it is measured as part of conjugated bilirubin. Because of its covalent bond during the recovery phase of hepatocellular jaundice, it may persist in the blood for a week or more after urine clears. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

delta cell of pancreas
A cell of the islets having fine granules and containing somatostatin. ... Synonym: D cell. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

delta chain
See: immunoglobulin. The heavy chains of mouse and human IgD immunoglobulins. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

delta check
A comparison of consecutive values for a given test in a patient's laboratory file used to detect abrupt changes, usually generated as a part of computer-based quality control programs. ... Synonym: d check. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

delta fornicis
Synonym for commissura fornicis ... The triangular subcallosal plate of commissural fibres resulting from the converging of the right and left fornix bundles which exchange numerous fibres and which curve back in the contralateral fornix to end in the hippocampus of the opposite side. ... Synonym: commissura hippocampi, commissure of fornix, delta fo …

delta granule
A granule of a delta cell. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

delta hepatitis
Synonym for viral hepatitis type D ... Acute or chronic hepatitis caused by the hepatitis delta virus, a defective RNA virus requiring HBV for replication. The acute type occurs in two forms: 1) coinfection, the simultaneous occurrence of hepatitis B virus and hepatitis delta virus infections, which usually is self-limiting; 2) superinfection, the a …

delta mesoscapulae
The flat triangular surface at the vertebral extremity of the spine of the scapula over which glides the tendon for the lower fibres of the trapezius muscle. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

delta rhythm
Brain waves in the electroencephalogram which have a frequency below 3 1/2 per second. They are typical in deep sleep, in infancy, and in serious brain disorders. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

delta sleep-inducing peptide
<chemical> A nonapeptide that is found in neurons, peripheral organs, and plasma. This neuropeptide induces mainly delta sleep in mammals. In addition to sleep, the peptide has been observed to affect electrophysiological activity, neurotransmitter levels in the brain, circadian and locomotor patterns, hormonal levels, psychological performan …

delta virus
<virology> Hepatitis D virus. A defective RNA virus requiring a helper virus, usually Hepatitis B virus, for replication. Delta virus infections may exacerbate the clinical effects of Hepatitis B. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

delta wave
A premature upstroke of the QRS complex due to an atrial ventricular bypass tract as in WPW syndrome. ... Synonym: delta rhythm. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

delta-13 fatty acid desaturase
<enzyme> Involved in sex pheromone biosynthesis from palmitic acid in the moth thaumetopoea pityocampa, acts in conjunction with an 11-desaturase ... Registry number: EC 1.14.99.- ... Synonym: delta-13 desaturase ... (26 Jun 1999) ...

delta-15 desaturase
<enzyme> Catalyses desaturation of glycerolipid-linked linoleic acid at position 15; has been sequenced; genbank u17063 ... Registry number: EC 1.14.99.- ... Synonym: delta(5)-desaturase ... (26 Jun 1999) ...

delta-22 fatty acid desaturase
<enzyme> Involved in ergosterol biosynthesis ... Registry number: EC 1.14.99.- ... Synonym: ergosta-5,7-dien-3 beta-ol delta-22 desaturase ... (26 Jun 1999) ...

delta-22 sterol desaturase
<enzyme> Catalyses the formation of the sterol side delta-22-double bond from 23-hydroxysterols ... Registry number: EC 1.3.3.- ... Synonym: c-22 sterol desaturase, cyp61, cytochrome p-45061, sterol delta22-desaturase ... (26 Jun 1999) ...

delta-cadinene synthase
<enzyme> Catalyses conversion of farnesylpyrophosphate to (+)-delta-cadinene; isolated from cotton. ... Registry number: EC 5.- ... (26 Jun 1999) ...

delta(8)-delta(7)-sterol isomerase
<enzyme> Catalyses anaerobic conversion of sterol-8-ene to sterol-7-ene; do not confuse with erg-2 protein from retroviridae ... Registry number: EC 5.3.3.- ... Synonym: delta 8 - delta 7 sterol isomerase, c-8 sterol isomerase, erg2 gene product, fungal, sterol 8-isomerase ... (26 Jun 1999) ...

deltoid
<anatomy, muscle> Origin, anterior border and upper surface over lateral third of clavicle, lateral border of acromion process, lower border of spine of scapula; insertion, lateral side of shaft of humerus a little above its middle (deltoid tuberosity); action, abduction, flexion, extension, and rotation of arm; nerve supply, axillary from fi …

deltoid branch
Branches related to the deltoid muscle. Nomina Anatomica lists deltoid branches of the following: 1) thoracoacromial artery, ramus deltoideus arteriae thoracoacromialis; 2) profunda brachii artery, ramus deltoideus arteriae profundae brachii. ... Synonym: ramus deltoideus. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

deltoid crest
Synonym for deltoid tuberosity ... A rough elevation about the middle of the lateral side of the shaft of the humerus, giving attachment to the deltoid muscle. ... Synonym: tuberositas deltoidea, deltoid crest, deltoid eminence, deltoid impression. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

deltoid eminence
Synonym for deltoid tuberosity ... A rough elevation about the middle of the lateral side of the shaft of the humerus, giving attachment to the deltoid muscle. ... Synonym: tuberositas deltoidea, deltoid crest, deltoid eminence, deltoid impression. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

deltoid impression
Synonym for deltoid tuberosity ... A rough elevation about the middle of the lateral side of the shaft of the humerus, giving attachment to the deltoid muscle. ... Synonym: tuberositas deltoidea, deltoid crest, deltoid eminence, deltoid impression. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

deltoid ligament
<anatomy> Compound ligament consisting of four component ligaments which pass downward from the medial malleolus of the tibia to the tarsal bones: 1) tibionavicular ligament (pars tibionavicularis ), 2) tibiocalcaneal ligament (pars tibiocalcanea ), 3) anterior tibiotalar ligament (pars tibiotalaris anterior ), and 4) posterior tibiotalar lig …

deltoid region
The lateral aspect of the shoulder demarcated by the outlines of the deltoid muscle. ... Synonym: regio deltoidea. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

deltoid tuberosity
A rough elevation about the middle of the lateral side of the shaft of the humerus, giving attachment to the deltoid muscle. ... Synonym: tuberositas deltoidea, deltoid crest, deltoid eminence, deltoid impression. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

deltoideopectoral triangle
Synonym for infraclavicular fossa ... A triangular depression bounded by the clavicle and the adjacent borders of the deltoid and pectoralis major muscles. ... Synonym: fossa infraclavicularis, deltoideopectoral triangle, deltoideopectoral trigone, infraclavicular triangle, Mohrenheim's fossa, Mohrenheim's space, regio infraclavicularis, trigonum del …

deltoideopectoral trigone
Synonym for infraclavicular fossa ... A triangular depression bounded by the clavicle and the adjacent borders of the deltoid and pectoralis major muscles. ... Synonym: fossa infraclavicularis, deltoideopectoral triangle, deltoideopectoral trigone, infraclavicular triangle, Mohrenheim's fossa, Mohrenheim's space, regio infraclavicularis, trigonum del …

deltopectoral flap
An axial pattern skin flap of the deltoid and pectoral regions, based on the internal mammary vessels. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

deluge
1. A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah . ... 2. Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction. 'The deluge of summer.' 'A fiery deluge fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.' (Milton) 'As I grub up some quaint old fragment of a [London] …

delusion
A false belief, seen most often in psychosis (for example schizophrenia). ... (27 Sep 1997) ...

delusion of control
Delusion of being controlled, a delusion in which one experiences one's feelings, impulses, thoughts, or actions as not one's own, but as being imposed on by some external force. ... Synonym: delusion of passivity. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

delusion of grandeur
A delusion in which one believes himself possessed of great wealth, intellect, importance and/or power, a common feature of schizophrenia. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...

delusion of negation
A delusion in which one imagines that the world and all that relates to it have ceased to exist. ... Synonym: nihilistic delusion. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

delusion of passivity
Synonym for delusion of control ... Delusion of being controlled, a delusion in which one experiences one's feelings, impulses, thoughts, or actions as not one's own, but as being imposed on by some external force. ... Synonym: delusion of passivity. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

delusion of persecution
A false notion that one is being persecuted, characteristic symptom of paranoid schizophrenia. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...

delusion of reference
A delusional idea that external events, etc., refer to the self. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

delusional disorder
A severe mental disorder characterised by the presence of delusions. The delusions may be related to paranoid, grandiose, somatic, or erotic themes. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

delusional powers or abilities
Fixed false beliefs, which are not amenable to arguments or facts to the contrary and which are not shared by others of similar cultural background. A characteristic of schizophrenia. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...

delusions
A false belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that persists despite the facts, and is not considered tenable by one's associates. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

delve
1. To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade. 'Delve of convenient depth your thrashing floo' (Dryden) ... 2. To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom. 'I can not delve him to the root.' (Shak) ... Origin: AS. Delfan to dig; akin to OS. Bidelban to bury, D. Delven to dig, MHG. Telben, and possibly to E. Dale. Cf. Delf a mine. ... Source: …

demand
A quantity of a substance, commodity, or service wanted or required. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

demand pacemaker
A form of artificial pacemaker usually implanted into cardiac tissue because its output of electrical stimuli can be inhibited by endogenous cardiac electrical activity. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

demand pulse generator
Synonym for ventricular inhibited pulse generator ... A generator which suppresses its output in response to natural ventricular activity but which, in the absence of such activity, functions as an asynchronous pulse generator. ... Synonym: demand pulse generator, standby pulse generator. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

demarcation
A setting of limits; a boundary. ... Origin: Fr. Fr. L. De, from, + Mediev. L. Marco, to mark ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

demarcation current
Synonym for current of injury ... The current set up when an injured part of a nerve, muscle, or other excitable tissue is connected through a conductor with the uninjured region; the injured tissue is negative to the uninjured. ... Synonym: demarcation current. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

demarcation line of retina
Junction of avascular and vascular retina in retinopathy of prematurity; line marking the limits of an old retinal detachment. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

demarcation potential
The difference in potential recorded when one electrode is placed on intact nerve fibres or muscle fibres and the other electrode is placed on the injured ends of the same fibres; the intact portion is positive with reference to the injured portion. ... Synonym: injury potential. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Demarquay, Jean
<person> French surgeon, 1811-1875. ... See: Demarquay's symptom. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Demarquay's symptom
Absence of elevation of the larynx during deglutition, said to indicate syphilitic induration of the trachea. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

demasculinizing
Depriving of male characteristics or inhibiting development of such characteristics. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Dematiaceae
A family of soil-inhabiting, brown or black melanin-producing fungi found in decaying vegetables, rotting wood, and forest carpets, and including several of the dark-coloured genera that cause chromoblastomycosis in man, such as Phialophora, Fonsecaea, and Cladosporium. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

dematiaceous
Denoting dark conidia and/or hyphae, usually brown or black; used frequently to denote dark-coloured fungi. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

dematin
<protein> Actin microfilament bundling protein (52 kD, but variants of similar molecular weight are reported), contains an SH3 domain and is extensively palmitoylated, associated with membrane of erythrocytes (protein 4.9). ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

deme
A locally interbreeding group within a geographic population. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

demean
1. To manage; to conduct; to treat. '[Our] clergy have with violence demeaned the matter.' (Milton) ... 2. To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun. 'They have demeaned themselves Like men born to renown by life or death.' (Shak) 'They answered . . . That they should demean themselves according to their instructions.' (Cl …

demecarium bromide
A potent cholinesterase inhibitor used in the treatment of glaucoma and accommodative esotropia; it is stable in aqueous solution. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

demeclocycline
<chemical> (4s-(4 alpha,4a alpha,5a alpha,6 beta,12a alpha))-7-chloro-4-dimethylamino-1,4,4a,5,5a,6,11,12a-octahydro-3,6,10,12,12a-pentahydroxy-1,11-dioxo-2-naphthacenecarboxamide. An antibiotic related to tetracycline and produced by streptomyces aureofaciens. Because it is excreted more slowly than tetracycline, it maintains effective blood …

demecolcine
<chemical> 6,7-dihydro-1,2,3,10-tetramethoxy-7-(methylamino)benzo(a)heptalen-9(5h)-one. An alkaloid isolated from colchicum autumnale l. And used as an antineoplastic. ... Pharmacological action: antineoplastic agent, phytogenic. ... Chemical name: Benzo(a)heptalen-9(5H)-one, 6,7-dihydro-1,2,3,10-tetramethoxy-7-(methylamino)-, (S)- ... (12 Dec 1 …

demented
Suffering from dementia. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

dementia
<neurology, psychiatry> An organic mental disorder characterised by a general loss of intellectual abilities involving impairment of memory, judgment and abstract thinking as well as changes in personality. ... It does not include loss of intellectual functioning caused by clouding of consciousness (as in delirium) nor that caused by depressio …

dementia paralytica
Synonym for paralytic dementia ... Dementia and paralysis resulting from a chronic syphilitic meningoencephalitis. ... Synonym: dementia paralytica. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

dementia paranoides
Dementia with paranoid features. ... Posttraumatic dementia, dementia caused by traumatic brain injury. ... Dementia praecox, any one of the group of psychotic disorders known as the schizophrenias; formerly used to describe schizophrenia as a single entity. ... Origin: L. Precocious ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

dementia-nuchal dystonia
A disorder that is associated with nerve cell destruction and progressive lack of coordination, neck stiffness, trunk stiffness, problems with eye movement and mild dementia. Disorders that are similar include Alzheimer's disease, cerebellar dysfunction, Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease and Parkinson's disease. The cause for progressive supranuclear palsy …

dementia, multi-infarct
Organic mental disorder caused by repetitive multiple cerebral infarcts which act cumulatively to produce dementia. Vascular disease is always presumed to be present. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

dementia, vascular
An organic mental disorder caused by systemic vascular disease such as arteriosclerotic changes in the vessels, valvular heart disease, hypertension, etc., and resulting in cerebral vascular disease with dementia. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

demerol
<drug> A prescription narcotic drug that is used to kill pain. Demerol, like other narcotics, is an addictive drug. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

demesne
A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use. ... Alternative forms: demain] Ancient demesne. ... See Ancient. ... Origin: OE. Demeine, demain, rule, demesne, OF. Demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine, power, F. Doma …

demethylase
Synonym for methyltransferase ... <enzyme> That transfers a methyl group from S adenosyl methionine to a substrate. most commonly encountered in bacterial chemotaxis where the methyl accepting chemotaxis proteins (MCPs) become methylated in the course of adaptation. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

demethylation
The enzymatic removal of methyl groups. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

demi-
Half, lesser. ... See: hemi-, semi-. ... Origin: Fr. Fr. L. Dimidius, half ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

demigauntlet
A glovelike bandage for the fingers and hand. ... Origin: demi-+ gauntlet, armored glove, fr. M.E., fr. O. Fr., fr. Germanic ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

demigauntlet bandage
A gauntlet bandage that covers only the hand, leaving the fingers exposed. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

demilune
1. A work constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin. See Ravelin. ... 2. <physiology> A crescentic mass of granular protoplasm present in the salivary glands. ... Each crescent is made of polyhedral cells which under some circumstances are suppose …

demilune body
A circular body of extreme transparency except for a crescentic punctate substance on one edge which contains haemoglobin. The body is much larger than a red blood cell, but is thought possibly to be a degenerated red blood cell swollen by imbibition; it has been found in malaria and in convalescence from typhoid fever; the transparent portion is c …