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

favor
1. Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will. 'Hath crawled into the favor of the king.' (Shak) ... 2. The act of countenancing, or the condition of being countenanced, or regarded propitiously; support; promotion; befriending. 'But found no favor in his lady's eyes.' (Dryden) 'And Jesus increased in wisd …

Favre-Durand-Nicholas disease
Synonym for venereal lymphogranuloma ... A venereal infection usually caused by Chlamydia trachomatis, and characterised by a transient genital ulcer and inguinal adenopathy in the male; in the female, perirectal lymph nodes are involved and rectal stricture is a common occurrence. ... Synonym: climatic bubo, Favre-Durand-Nicholas disease, lymphogran …

Favre-Racouchet's disease
<disease> Comedones developing on sun-damaged skin due to obstruction of pilosebaceous follicles by solar elastosis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Favre-Racouchot syndrome
<syndrome> Periorbital and malar open comedones, often with marked solar elastosis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Favre, Maurice
<person> French physician, 1876-1954. ... See: Gamna-Favre bodies, Nicolas-Favre disease. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Favre's dystrophy
Synonym for vitreo-tapetoretinal dystrophy ... Autosomal recessive bilateral peripheral and central retinoschisis with pigmentary degeneration of the retina, chorioretinal atrophy, vitreous degeneration, and night blindness. ... Synonym: Favre's dystrophy. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

favulariate
Of a surface, finely ribbed, the ribs separated by zig-zag furrows. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

FBC
Synonym for Full Blood Count ... <haematology, investigation> The determination of the proper number of red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets are present in the patients blood. ... Acronym: FBC ... (16 Dec 1997) ...

Fc
<immunology> That portion of an immunoglobulin molecule (Fragment crystallizable) that binds to a cell when the antigen binding sites (Fab) of the antibody are occupied or the antibody is aggregated, the Fc portion is also important in complement activation. ... The Fc fragment can be separated from the Fab portions by pepsin. Fc moieties from …

Fc fragment
<immunology> The constant region on an immunoglobulin molecule. The area that is exactly the same on all antibodies. The region is found on the heavy chains and is not involved in binding antigens. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

Fc piece
Synonym for Fc fragment ... <immunology> The constant region on an immunoglobulin molecule. The area that is exactly the same on all antibodies. The region is found on the heavy chains and is not involved in binding antigens. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

Fc receptor
Receptors present on a variety of cells for the Fc fragment of immunoglobulins. These receptors recognise immunoglobulins of the IgG and IgE class. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Fc receptors
<immunology> Receptors for the Fc portion of immunoglobulins. ... Fc_R (30 kD) is the receptor for serum and secretory IgA1 or IgA2 and is expressed on most myeloid cells and subpopulations of T and B-cells. Fc_RI (CD64) High affinity receptor (72 kD on gels) for monomeric IgG1 found on monocytes, macrophages and some neutrophils. The extracel …

FCAP
<abbreviation> Fellow of the College of American Pathologists. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

FCCP
<abbreviation> Fellow of the College of Chest Physicians. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

FCS
Synonym for foetal calf serum ... <cell culture> The serum originating from embryonic calves and an expensive component of standard culture media for many types of animal tissue cells. ... It is used as an important part of growth media for promoting the growth of tissue cultures. It provides a source of growth hormones and other growth factors …

Fd
Synonym for ferredoxin ... <protein> Low molecular weight iron sulphur proteins that transfer electrons from one enzyme system to another without themselves having enzyme activity. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

FDA
Synonym for food and drug administration ... The U.S. Agency responsible for regulation of biotechnology foodproducts. The major laws under which the agency has regulatory powersinclude the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic act, and the Public Health Service Act. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

FDNB
Synonym for fluoro-2,4-dinitrobenzene ... A reagent used to combine with the free NH2 group of the NH2-terminal amino acid residue in a peptide, thus marking this residue; the combined forms are known as DNP-proteins, Dnp-aminoacyl, etc., the fluorine having been replaced to leave a dinitrophenyl residue (DNP, Dnp, or N2Ph-) attached to the NH2 grou …

FDP
Synonym for fibrin degradation products ... <haematology, investigation> A test that measures fibrin degradation products which result from the dissolution of a blood clot. ... Normal value is less than 10 mcg/ml (micrograms per millilitre). ... They may be increased in conditions such as burns, placental abruption, heart disease, DIC, after mas …

Fe
Symbol for iron. ... Origin: L. Ferrum, iron ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

fealty
1. Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyality. It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation. ... 2. Fidelity; constancy; fa …

fear
1. A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread. ... The degrees of this passion, beginning with the most moderate, may be thus expressed, apprehension, fear, dread, fright, terror. 'Fear is an uneasiness of the mind, upon the thought of futu …

fearful
1. Full of fera, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened. 'Anxious amidst all their success, and fearful amidat all their power.' (Bp. Warburton) ... 2. Inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid. 'What man is there that is fearful and fain-hearted?' (Deut. Xx. 8) ... 3. Indicating, or caused by, fear. 'Cold fearful drops stand on …

feasibility studies
Studies to determine the advantages or disadvantages, practicability, or capability of accomplishing a projected plan, study, or project. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

feast
1. To eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions, particularly in large companies, and on public festivals. 'And his sons went and feasted in their houses.' (Job. I. 4) ... 2. To be highly gratified or delighted. 'With my love's picture then my eye doth feast.' (Shak) ... Origin: OE. Festen, cf. OF. Fester to rest from work, F. Feter to celeb …

feather
1. <ornithology> One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down. ... An ordinary feather consists of the quill or hollow basal part of the stem; the shaft or rachis, forming the upper, solid part of the stem; the vanes or webs, implanted on the rachis and consisting of a serie …

feathered
1. Clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow. 'Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury.' (Shak) 'Nonsense feathered with soft and delicate phrases and pointed with pathetic accent.' (Dr. J. Scott) ... 2. Furnished with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed; as, land feathered w …

feathering
1. Same as Foliation. ... 2. The act of turning the blade of the oar, as it rises from the water in rowing, from a vertical to a horizontal position. See To feather an oar, under Feather. ... 3. A covering of feathers. Feathering float, a paddle wheel whose floats turn automatically so as to dip about perpendicularly into the water and leave in it th …

featural surgery
Rarely used term for plastic surgery of the face, for correction or improvement of appearance. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

featureless thecal sac
<radiology> No nerve roots seen (in lumbar spine; roots not seen in T-spine) Differential diagnosis: arachnoiditis, Pantopaque, infection, haemorrhage, surgery / RT, subdural injection, contrast flows, unlike epidural injection, nerve roots seen as they exit, but not between disc levels ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

features
The various parts of the face, forehead, eyes, nose, mouth, chin, cheeks, and ears, that give to it its individuality and character. ... Origin: through O. Fr., fr. L. Factura, a making, fr. Facio, to do ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

febricant
Synonym for febrifacient ... 1. Causing or favouring the development of fever. ... Synonym: febriferous, febrific. ... 2. Anything that produces fever. ... See: pyrogenic. ... Synonym: febricant. ... Origin: L. Febris, fever, + facio, to make ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

febricula
A simple continued fever; a mild fever of short duration, of indefinite origin, and without any distinctive pathology. ... Origin: L. Dim. Of febris, fever ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

febrifacient
1. Causing or favouring the development of fever. ... Synonym: febriferous, febrific. ... 2. Anything that produces fever. ... See: pyrogenic. ... Synonym: febricant. ... Origin: L. Febris, fever, + facio, to make ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

febriferous
Synonym: febrifacient. ... Origin: L. Febris, fever, + fero, to bear, + -ous ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

febrific
Synonym for febrifacient ... 1. Causing or favouring the development of fever. ... Synonym: febriferous, febrific. ... 2. Anything that produces fever. ... See: pyrogenic. ... Synonym: febricant. ... Origin: L. Febris, fever, + facio, to make ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

febrifugal
Synonym for antipyretic ... <pharmacology> An agent that relieves or reduces fever. ... Synonym: antifebrile, antithermic, febrifuge. ... Origin: Gr. Pyretos = fever ... (13 Nov 1997) ...

febrile
<symptom> Pertaining to or characterised by fever. ... Origin: L. Febrilis ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

febrile agglutinins
<investigation> A serologic fluorescent antibody screen that indicates infection with the rickettsial bacteria which is responsible for Rocky Mountain spotted fever. ... This test may also be positive in brucellosis, salmonella infection and tularaemia. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...

febrile albuminuria
Albuminuria associated with fever. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

febrile convulsion
A brief seizure, lasting less than 15 minutes, seen in a neurologically normal infant or young child, associated with fever. ... Synonym: febrile seizure. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

febrile crisis
The stage in a febrile disease when spontaneous defervescence occurs. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

febrile psychosis
Synonym for infection-exhaustion psychosis ... A psychosis following an acute infection, shock, or chronic intoxication; begins as delirium followed by pronounced mental confusion with hallucinations and unsystematised delusions, and sometimes stupor. ... Synonym: febrile psychosis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

febrile seizure
<neurology, paediatrics> A convulsion that occurs secondary to a rapid increase in body temperature. Common in infants under two years of age. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...

febrile urine
Dark coloured, concentrated urine of strong odour, passed by one suffering from fever. ... Synonym: feverish urine. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

febrile urticaria
Urticaria accompanied by slight constitutional symptoms. ... Synonym: acute urticaria, urticaria acuta, urticaria febrilis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

febris
Synonym: fever. ... Origin: L. ... Febris melitensis, infection with Brucella melitensis. ... See: Brucella melitensis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

febris undulans
Synonym for brucellosis ... <microbiology> A rare infection (less than 200 cases per year in the U.S.) caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella. Human infection results from occupational exposure to infected animals or by ingestion of infected milk, milk products or animal tissue. ... Symptoms are non-specific and include fever, malaise and wei …

february
The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month contains twenty-eight days; in the bissextile, or leap year, it has twenty-nine days. ... Origin: L. Februarius, orig, the month of expiation, because on the fifteenth of this month the great feast of expiation and purification was …

feces
Synonym for faeces ... <gastroenterology> The excrement discharged from the intestines, consisting of bacteria, cells exfoliated from the intestines, secretions, chiefly of the liver and a small amount of food residue. ... Origin: L. Faeces, pl. Of faex = refuse ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

feces, impacted
A large firm mass of stool formed in the rectum or distal colon. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

Fechner-Weber law
Synonym for Weber-Fechner law ... The intensity of a sensation varies by a series of equal increments (arithmetically) as the strength of the stimulus is increased geometrically; if a series of stimuli is applied and so adjusted in strength that each stimulus causes a just perceptible change in intensity of the sensation, then the strength of each s …

Fechner, Gustav
<person> German physicist, 1801-1887. ... See: Weber-Fechner law, Fechner-Weber law. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

fecula
Origin: L.faeula burnt tartar or salt of tartar, dim. Of faex, faecis, sediment, dregs: cf. F. Fecule. ... Any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence. Especially: ... The nutritious part of wheat; starch or farina; called also amylaceous fecula. The green matter of plants; chlor …

feculent
Foul. ... Origin: L. Faeculentus, full of excrement, fr. Faeces, dregs, faeces ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

fecund
Fruitful. Just as a writer is prolific, a woman may be fecund, able to reproduce plentifully. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

fecundability
<gynaecology> The ability to become pregnant. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

fecundity
<biology, gynaecology> A measure of fertility, such as sperm count or egg count or the number of live offspring produced by an organism. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

Fede, Francesco
<person> Italian physician, 1832-1913. ... See: Riga-Fede disease. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

federal
1. Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations; constituted by a compact between parties, usually governments or their representatives. 'The Romans compelled them, contrary to all federal right, . . . To part with Sardinia.' (Grew) ... 2. Specifically: Composed of states or dist …

fee
1. Property; possession; tenure. 'Laden with rich fee.' 'Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee.' (Wordsworth) ... 2. Reward or compensation for services rendered or to be rendered; especially, payment for professional services, of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge; pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians; the f …

fee schedules
A listing of established professional service charges, for specified dental and medical procedures. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

fee-for-service plans
Method of charging whereby a physician or other practitioner bills for each encounter or service rendered. In addition to physicians, other health care professionals are reimbursed via this mechanism. Fee-for-service plans contrast with salary, per capita, and prepayment systems, where the payment does not change with the number of services actuall …

feeble
1. Deficient in physical strenght; weak; infirm; debilitated. 'Carried all the feeble of them upon asses.' (2 Chron. Xxviii. 15) ... 2. Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; not full, loud, bright, strong, rapid, etc.; faint; as, a feeble colour; feeble motion. 'A lady's feeble voice.' ... Origin: OE. Feble, OF. Feble, flebe, f …

feed
1. To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of. 'If thine enemy hunger, feed him.' (Rom. Xii. 20) 'Unreasonable reatures feed their young.' (Shak) ... 2. To satisfy; grafity or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire. 'I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.' (Shak) 'Feeding him with the hope of l …

feed-forward activation
The activation of an enzyme by a precursor of the substrate of that enzyme. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

feedback
<physiology> The return of some of the output of a system as input so as to exert some control in the process. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

feedback activation
The activation of an enzyme by an end product of a biochemical pathway in which that enzyme plays a part. For example, the activation of factors VIII and V by thrombin during blood clotting. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

feedback control
The regulation of the activity of an enzyme by one of its products. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

feedback inhibition
<biochemistry, physiology> The process of the end product of a particular metabolic reaction inhibiting an allosteric enzyme involved in that reaction as the reaction starts again, thus breaking the reaction cycle. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

feedback regulation
<physiology> Control mechanism that uses the consequences of a process to regulate the rate at which the process occurs: if, for example: the products of a reaction inhibit the reaction from proceeding (or slow down the rate of the reaction), then there is negative feedback, something that is very common in metabolic pathways. ... Positive fee …

feedback system
A complex of neuronal circuits whereby a part of the efferent path returns to the input to modulate its activity, thus acting as a governor on the system. ... See: feedback. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

feeder
1. One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward. 'A couple of friends, his chaplain and feeder.' (Goldsmith) ... 2. One who furnishes incentives; an encourager. 'The feeder of my riots.' ... 3. One who eats or feeds; specifically, an animal to be fed or fattened. 'With eager feeding, food doth choke the feeder.' (Shak) ... 4. On …

feeder layer
<cell culture> In order to culture some cells, particularly at low or clonal density, it is necessary to use a layer of less fastidious cells to condition the medium. ... Often the cells of the feeder layer are irradiated or otherwise treated so that they will not proliferate. In some cases the feeder layer may be producing growth factors or c …

feedforward control
The process in which one of the products of a metabolic pathway induces an enzyme which participates in the metabolic pathway to act. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

feeding
Giving food or nourishment. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

feeding behaviour
Behavioural responses or sequences associated with eating including modes of feeding, rhythmic patterns of eating, and time intervals. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

feeding centre
A region of the lateral zone of the hypothalamus, electrical stimulation of which in the rat elicits uninterrupted eating; destruction of the region causes long-lasting anorexia. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

feeding methods
Methods of giving food to humans or animals. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

feeding tube
A flexible tube passed through the oral pharynx and into the oesophagus and stomach, through which liquid food is fed. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

feeding, breast
The ability of the breast to produce milk diminishes soon after childbirth without the stimulation of breastfeeding. Immunity factors in breast milk can help the baby to fight off infections. Breast milk contains vitamins, minerals, and enzymes which aid the baby's digestion. Breast and formula feeding can be used together. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

feedstock
<chemistry> The raw material used for chemical or biological processes. ... (14 Nov 1997) ...

feel
1. To have perception by the touch, or by contact of anything with the nerves of sensation, especially those upon the surface of the body. ... 2. To have the sensibilities moved or affected. '[She] feels with the dignity of a Roman matron'. (Burke) 'And mine as man, who feel for all mankind.' (Pope) ... 3. To be conscious of an inward impression, sta …

feeler
1. One who, or that which, feels. ... 2. <entomology, zoology> One of the sense organs or certain animals (as insects), which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp. 'Insects . . . Perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feelers or antennae.' (Derham) ... 3. Anything, as a proposal, o …

feeling
1. Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart. ... 2. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs. ... 1. The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; tha …

feeling tone
The mental state (pleasure, repugnance, etc.) that accompanies every act or thought. ... Synonym: affective tone, emotional tone, affectivity. ... Fundamental tone, the component of lowest frequency in a complex tone. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Feer, Emil
<person> Swiss paediatrician, 1864-1955. ... See: Feer's disease. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Feer's disease
Synonym for acrodynia ... Pain in the extremities. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

fees and charges
Amounts charged to the patient as payer for health care services. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

fees, dental
Amounts charged to the patient as payer for dental services. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

fees, medical
Amounts charged to the patient as payer for medical services. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

fees, pharmaceutical
Amounts charged to the patient or third-party payer for medication. It includes the pharmacist's professional fee and cost of ingredients, containers, etc. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

feet
As a measure of length, the plural of foot. See Foot. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

FEF
<abbreviation> Forced expiratory flow. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Fehling, Hermann von
<person> German chemist, 1812-1885. ... See: Fehling's reagent, Fehling's solution. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Fehling's reagent
Synonym for Fehling's solution ... An alkaline copper tartrate solution formerly used for detection of reducing sugars. ... Synonym: Fehling's reagent. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Fehling's solution
An alkaline copper tartrate solution formerly used for detection of reducing sugars. ... Synonym: Fehling's reagent. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

feign
1. To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true. 'There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.' (Neh. Vi. 8) 'The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods.' (Shak) ... 2. To represent by a fa …

feigned eruption
Synonym for dermatitis artefacta ... Self-induced skin lesions resulting from habitual rubbing, scratching or hair-pulling, malingering, or mental disturbance. ... Synonym: dermatitis autophytica, factitial dermatitis, feigned eruption. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...