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

floating organ
Synonym for wandering organ ... An organ with loose attachments, permitting its displacement. ... Synonym: floating organ, ptotic organ. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

floating patella
A patella riding high on effusion of the knee. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

floating ribs
The two lower ribs on either side that are not attached anteriorly. ... Synonym: costae fluitantes, costae fluctuantes, vertebral ribs. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

floating spleen
A spleen that is palpable because of excessive mobility from a relaxed or lengthened pedicle rather than because of enlargement. ... Synonym: lien mobilis, movable spleen. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

floating villus
Synonym for free villus ... A chorionic villus that is not attached to the decidua basalis, but is 'free' in the maternal blood of the intervillous spaces. ... Synonym: floating villus. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

floc
A colloquial term for the product of a flocculation, i.e., the separation of the disperse phase of a colloidal suspension into discrete, usually visible particles, as in certain serologic precipitin tests. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

flocculable
Capable of undergoing flocculation. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

floccular fossa
Synonym for subarcuate fossa ... An irregular depression on the posterior surface of the petrous portion of the temporal bone just below its crest and above and lateral to the internal acoustic meatus. In the foetus, the flocculus of the cerebellum rests here; in the adult, a small vein enters the bone here. ... Synonym: fossa subarcuata, floccular f …

flocculation
The rapid precipitationof large amounts of a solute out of a solvent. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

flocculation reaction
A form of precipitin reaction in which precipitation occurs over a narrow range of antigen-antibody ratio, due chiefly to peculiarities of the antibody (precipitin). ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

flocculation test
Synonym for flocculation reaction ... A form of precipitin reaction in which precipitation occurs over a narrow range of antigen-antibody ratio, due chiefly to peculiarities of the antibody (precipitin). ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

flocculation tests
Precipitin tests in which precipitation occurs over a narrow range of antigen-antibody ratio, due chiefly to peculiarities of the antibody (precipitin). ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

flocculence
Synonym for flocculation ... The rapid precipitationof large amounts of a solute out of a solvent. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

flocculonodular
See: flocculonodular lobe. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

flocculonodular lobe
The small posterior and inferior subdivision of the cerebellar cortex that borders the line of attachment of the choroid roof of the rhomboid fossa, and consists of the left and right flocculus together with the unpaired nodulus (the most posterior of the folia composing the vermis cerebelli). Its major afferent connections come from the vestibular …

Flocks
Milton, U.S. Ophthalmologist, *1914. ... See: Harrington-Flocks test. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

flood
1. To bleed profusely from the uterus, as after childbirth or in cases of menorrhagia. ... 2. Colloquialism for a profuse menstrual discharge. ... Origin: A.S. Flod ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

flood fever
Synonym for tsutsugamushi disease ... See Typhus, scrub. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

Flood, Valentine
<person> Irish anatomist and surgeon, 1800-1847. ... See: Flood's ligament. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Flood's ligament
<anatomy> A band of the coracohumeral ligament, attached to the lower part of the lesser tuberosity of the humerus. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

flooded
A condition in which the soil surface is temporarily covered with flowing water from any source, such as streams overflowing their banks, runoff from adjacent or surrounding slopes, inflow from high tides or any combination of sources. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

floodplain
Relatively flat surfaces adjacent to active stream or river channels, formed by deposition of sediments during major floods. The floodplain may be covered by water during floods: 100-year floodplain: That area that would be covered by water during the 100-year flood event. Historic floodplain: An area larger than the 100-year floodplain. ... (05 Dec …

floor
1. The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported. ... 2. The structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2. ... 3. The surface, or the platform …

floor cell
An obsolete term for the cell body of pillar cell's in the floor of the arch of Corti. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

floor of orbit
The floor of the orbit; the shortest of the four walls of the orbit, sloping upward from the orbital margin; it is comprised of the maxilla and orbital process of the palatine bone. ... Synonym: paries inferior orbitae, inferior wall of orbit. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

floor of tympanic cavity
The floor of the tympanic cavity; a thin plate of bone separating the tympanic cavity from the jugular fossa. ... Synonym: paries jugularis cavi tympani, fundus tympani, inferior wall of tympanic cavity, jugular wall of middle ear. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

floor plate
Ventral midline thinning of the developing neural tube, a continuity between the basal laminae of either side; opposite of roof plate. ... Synonym: ventral plate. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

floors and floorcoverings
The surface of a structure upon which one stands or walks. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

flop
1. To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap. ... 2. To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat. ... Origin: A variant of flap. ... 1. To strike about with something broad abd flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; as, the brim of a hat flops. ... 2. To fall, sink, or throw one's self, …

floppy baby syndrome
<syndrome> A general medical reference to an abnormal condition of newborns and infants manifest by inadequate tone of the muscles. Hypotonia (inadequately toned muscles resulting in floppiness) in the newborn period and infancy can be due to a multitude of different neurologic and muscle problems. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

floppy valve syndrome
<syndrome> Retrograde slippage of degenerating mitral or tricuspid valve leaflets into the valve's orifice beyond the point of closure during systole of the left ventricle; a feature of Barlow's syndrome. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

flora
Plant life. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

floral
Belonging to or associated with a flower. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

floramour
The plant love-lies-bleeding. ... Origin: L. Flos, floris, flower + amorlove. ... (01 Mar 1998) ...

florantyrone
Gamma-Oxy-gamma-(8-fluoranthene)butyric acid;an agent which increases the volume of bile without increasing the quantity of bile solids or stimulating evacuation of the gallbladder. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Florence flask
A globular long-necked bottle of thin glass used for holding water or other liquid in laboratory work. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Florence, Albert
<person> French physician, 1851-1927. ... See: Florence's crystals. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Florence's crystals
Brown rhombic crystal's formed at the interface between a drop of Lugol's solution and a drop of fluid that contains semen; not a specific test for the latter. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

floret
A grass flower, together with the lemma and palea that enclose it (often applied to flowers in the families Cyperaceeae and Asteraceae). ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

Florey unit
Synonym for Oxford unit ... <microbiology> The minimum amount of penicillin which will prevent the growth of Staphylococcus aureus over an area 26 mm in diameter in a standard culture medium; 1 unit equals 0.6 ug of crystalline sodium salt of penicillin. ... Synonym: Florey unit. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Florey, Sir Howard
<person> Australian-British pathologist and Nobel laureate, 1898-1968. ... See: Florey unit. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

florid
1. Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. 'Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree.' (Jer. Taylor) ... 2. Bright in colour; flushed with red; of a lively reddish colour; as, a florid countenance. ... 3. Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence. ... 4. Fl …

florid oral papillomatosis
Diffuse involvement of the lips and oral mucosa with benign squamous papillomas; microscopically, it resembles verrucous carcinoma, but is not invasive or localised to a specific area of the oral mucosa. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

florid osseous dysplasia
Synonym for sclerotic cemental mass ... Benign fibro-osseous jaw lesions of unknown aetiology, occurring predominantly in middle-aged black females, which present as large painless radiopaque masses usually involving several quadrants of the jaw. ... Synonym: florid osseous dysplasia, cemental dysplasia. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

floriform cataract
A congenital cataract with opacities arranged like the petals of a flower. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

florigen
Hypothetical plant growth substance (hormone) postulated to induce flowering. Existence not proven: recently suggested that it might be an oligosaccharin. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

Florschutz
Georg, German physician, *1859. ... See: Florschutz' formula. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Florschutz' formula
The correct relation of height to the abdominal circumference: L: (2B -L), L representing the individual's height, and B the circumference of the abdomen; the normal value so determined would be 5, and any below that would indicate obesity. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

floscule
A small flower, a floret. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

floss
1. <botany> The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk. ... 2. Untwisted filaments of silk, used in embroidering. Floss silk, silk that has been twisted, and which retains its loose and downy character. It is much used in embroidery. Called also floxed silk. Floss thread, a kind of soft flaxen yarn or thread, used …

floss silk
dental floss ...

flossing
at home. Tartar can become as hard as a rock and then can require a dentist or dental hygienist with special tools to remove it. Dental ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

flotation
1. The act, process, or state of floating. ... 2. The science of floating bodies. Center of flotation. ... The imaginary surface which all the planes of flotation touch when a vessel rolls or pitches; the envelope of all such planes. ... Origin: Cf. F. Flottation a floating, flottaison water line, fr. Flotter to float. See Flotilla. ... Source: Webster …

flotation constant
Characteristic sedimentation behaviour of a lipoprotein fraction of plasma in a centrifugal field in a medium of appropriate density, achieved by adding a salt or D2O to the plasma. ... Synonym: negative S, Svedberg of flotation. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

flotation method
Any of several procedures for concentrating helminth eggs for more reliable results when eggs are difficult to find in direct examination; the flotation method's depend on flotation of helminth eggs on the surface of a liquid of sufficiently high specific gravity, approximately 1.180; 1 part faeces mixed in about 10 parts saturated saline will floa …

flounder
To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce. 'They have floundered on from blunder to blunder.' (Sir W. Hamilton) ... Origin: Cf. D. Flodderen to flap, splash through mire, E. Flounce, v.i, and flounder the fish. ... 1. <zoology> A fl …

Flourens
Marie J.P., French physiologist, 1794-1867. ... See: Flourens' theory. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Flourens' theory
That thought is a process depending upon the action of the entire cerebrum. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

flourish
1. To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive. 'A tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly . . . Soil.' (Bp. Horne) ... 2. To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc, to be in a …

Flourite objectives
<microscopy> Microscope objective lenses considerably better corrected than achromats but not quite as well corrected as the apochromats. By using fluorite crystals (which have lower dispersion) in place of some of the glass elements, a fluorite objective corrects for spherical aberrations in three wavelengths at considerably lower cost than …

floury cornea
Synonym for cornea farinata ... Bilateral speckling of the posterior part of the corneal stroma. ... Synonym: floury cornea. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

flow
1. To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes. ... 2. To become liquid; to melt. 'The mountains flowed down at thy presence.' (Is. Lxiv. 3) ... 3. To pproceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from indust …

flow cytoenzymology
A technique for for separating and sorting cells based on the presence ofspecific enzymes that create acoloured material when they bind to a substrate. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

flow cytometry
<technique> Flow cytometry is an emerging technique which holds great promise for the separation, classification and quantitation of blood cells and antibodies which affect blood cells. ... Complex computerised instruments are used to pass a monocellular stream of cells, platelets or other microscopic particulate elements through a beam of las …

flow cytophotometry
Synonym for flow cytometry ... <technique> Flow cytometry is an emerging technique which holds great promise for the separation, classification and quantitation of blood cells and antibodies which affect blood cells. ... Complex computerised instruments are used to pass a monocellular stream of cells, platelets or other microscopic particulate …

flow injection analysis
The analysis of a chemical substance by inserting a sample into a carrier stream of reagent using a sample injection valve that propels the sample downstream where mixing occurs in a coiled tube, then passes into a flow-through detector and a recorder or other data handling device. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

flow karyotyping
Use of flow cytometry toanalyse and/orseparate chromosomes on the basis of their DNA content. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

flow rate
The amount of water that moves through an area (usually pipe) in a given period of time. ... (05 Dec 1998) ...

flow void
In magnetic resonance imaging, the absence of signal from blood whose activated protons leave a region before their magnetization is measured. ... See: signal void. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

flow-over vaporiser
A device for vaporization of a liquid anaesthetic by causing gases to pass over the anaesthetic or over material saturated with the anaesthetic. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

flow-volume curve
The graph produced by plotting the instantaneous flow of respiratory gas against the simultaneous lung volume, usually during maximal forced expiration. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

flower
The sexual reproductive structure of the angiosperms, typically consisting of gynoecium, androecium and perianth and the main stem bearing these parts. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

flower basket of Bochdalek
Part of the choroid plexus of the fourth ventricle protruding through Luschka's foramen and resting on the dorsal surface of the glossopharyngeal nerve. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

flower-de-luce
<botany> A genus of perennial herbs (Iris) with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colours, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. ... There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north temperate zone. Some of the best known are Iris Germanica, I. Florentina, I. Persica …

flower-spray ending
One of the two types of sensory nerve ending associated with the neuromuscular spindle (the other being the annulospiral ending); in this type, the fibre branches spread out upon the surface of the intrafusal fibres like a spray of flowers. ... Synonym: flower-spray organ of Ruffini. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

flower-spray organ of Ruffini
Synonym for flower-spray ending ... One of the two types of sensory nerve ending associated with the neuromuscular spindle (the other being the annulospiral ending); in this type, the fibre branches spread out upon the surface of the intrafusal fibres like a spray of flowers. ... Synonym: flower-spray organ of Ruffini. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Flower's bone
Synonym for epipteric bone ... A sutural bone occasionally present at the pterion or junction of the parietal, frontal, greater wing of the sphenoid, and squamous portion of the temporal bone's. ... Synonym: Flower's bone. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Flower's dental index
Synonym for dental index ... Relation of the dental length (distance from the mesial surface of the first premolar to the distal surface of the third molar) to the basinasal (basion to nasion) length: (dental length &times;100)/basinasal length, a system of numbers for indicating comparative size of the teeth. ... Synonym: Flower's dental index.< …

flowering
1. The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification. ... 2. The act of adorning with flowers. ... <botany> Having conspicuous flowers; used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc. Flowering fern, a genus of showy ferns (Osmunda), with conspicuous bivalvular spo …

flowers
A mineral substance in a powdery state after sublimation. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

flowers of antimony
Synonym for antimony trioxide ... Sb2O3;used technically in paints and flame-proofing; also used as an expectorant and emetic. ... Synonym: antimonous oxide, antimony oxide, flowers of antimony. ... Abbreviation: Sb ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

flowers of benzoin
Synonym for benzoic acid ... C6H5COOH;occurs naturally in gum benzoin; it is used as a food preservative, locally as a fungistatic, and orally as an antiseptic, diuretic, and expectorant. It is excreted rapidly as hippuric acid. ... Synonym: benzoyl hydrate, flowers of benzoin. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

flowers of sulfur
Synonym for sublimed sulfur ... Used in preparing sulfur ointment and in the treatment of various skin disorders. ... Synonym: flowers of sulfur. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

flowers of zinc
Synonym for zinc oxide ... <chemical> A mild astringent and topical protectant with some antiseptic action. It is also used in bandages, pastes, ointments, dental cements, and as a sunblock. ... Pharmacological action: dermatologic agents, sunscreening agents. ... Chemical name: Zinc oxide (ZnO) ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

flowing hyperostosis
Synonym for rheostosis ... A hypertrophying and condensing osteitis which tends to run in longitudinal streaks or columns, like wax drippings on a candle, and which involves a number of the long bones. ... Synonym: flowing hyperostosis, streak hyperostosis. ... Origin: rheo-+ G. Osteon, bone, + -osis, condition ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

flowmeter
A device for measuring velocity or volume of flow of liquids or gases. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

floxacillin
<chemical> 6-(((3-(2-chloro-6-fluorophenyl)-5-methyl-4-isoxazolyl) carbonyl)amino)-3,3-dimethyl-7-oxo-4-thia-1-azabicyclo (3.2.0)heptane-2-carboxylic acid. Antibiotic analog of cloxacillin. ... Pharmacological action: penicillins. ... Chemical name: 4-Thia-1-azabicyclo(3.2.0)heptane-2-carboxylic acid, 6-(((3-(2-chloro-6-fluorophenyl)-5-methyl-4 …

floxuridine
<chemical> An antineoplastic antimetabolite that is metabolised to fluorouracil when administered by rapid injection; when administered by slow, continuous, intra-arterial infusion, it is converted to floxuridine monophosphate. It has been used to treat hepatic metastases of gastrointestinal adenocarcinomas and for palliation in malignant neo …

flp frp recombinase
<enzyme> Yeast system for DNA rearrangement. In the presence of flippase, a stretch of DNA flanked by matching frp sites is excised and the ends rejoined. An example of a cassette mechanism. ... (Pronounced: flip furp) ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

FLP recombinase
<enzyme> Introduces site-specific single- and double-strand breaks into substrate DNA ... Registry number: EC 2.7.7.- ... Synonym: flp protein, flp site-specific recombinase, 2 mu circle site-specific recombinase, flp recombinase, yeast ... (26 Jun 1999) ...

FLRFamide
<protein> Phe Leu Arg Phe NH2, a tetrapeptide neurotransmitter found in invertebrates that is a member of a diverse family of RFamide peptides, all members of that share the same C terminal RFamide sequence. ... See: FMRFamide. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

flu
A lay term that describes a illness that is characterised by fever, malaise, weakness and muscle aches. An infection caused by the influenza virus. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...

flu shot
A special vaccine which provides immunity to infection by a variety of Influenza viruses. The vaccine is updated annually due to the constant introduction of new viral strains. Flu vaccination programs are common in the elderly population and any other groups who are at increased risk of viral infection. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...

flu shots
The flu (influenza) vaccine is recommended for persons at high risk for serious complications from influenza infection, including everyone age 65 or more; people with chronic diseases of the heart, lung or kidneys, diabetes, immunosuppression, or severe forms of anaemia; residents of nursing homes and other chronic-care facilities, children and tee …

flu vaccine
The flu (influenza) vaccine is recommended for persons at high risk for serious complications from influenza infection, including everyone 65 or over; people with chronic diseases of the heart, lung or kidneys, diabetes, immunosuppression, or severe forms of anaemia; residents of nursing homes and other chronic-care facilities, children and teenage …

flu, stomach
A misnomer that has nothing to do with influenza (flu) virus, the term stomach flu is sometimes used to describe gastrointestinal illnesses caused by other microorganisms. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

fluanisone
4'-fluoro-4-[4-(o-methoxyphenyl)-1-piperazinyl]butyrophenone;an antianxiety agent. ... Synonym: haloanisone. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

fluconazole
An antifungal drug that is FDAapproved for oral candidiasis and cryptococcal meningitis. It is still under study for vaginal candidiasis and other fungal infections. Possible side effects include liver injury, anaphylaxis and skin peeling. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

flucrylate
2,2,2-Trifluoro-1-methylethyl-2-cyanoacrylate;a surgical tissue adhesive. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

fluctuant
A wave like motion that is felt when a fluid containing structure is palpated. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...