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

Fogarty catheter
A catheter with an inflatable balloon near its tip; used to remove arterial emboli and thrombi from major veins (e.g., iliofemoral) and to remove stones from the biliary ducts. ... Synonym: balloon-tip catheter. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Fogarty clamp
A clamp with rubber-shod blades having serrated surfaces, to provide an atraumatic grip on tissues. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Fogarty, Thomas
<person> U.S. Thoracic surgeon, *1934. ... See: Fogarty catheter, Fogarty clamp. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

fogging
A method of refraction in which accommodation is relaxed by overcorrection with a convex spherical lens. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

fogging retinoscopy
The method of reducing vision with convex lenses until accommodation is suspended; a static, noncycloplegic technique. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

fogo selvagem
A form of pemphigus foliaceus, occurring in southern Brazil, in which the lesions are bullous, appear localised to the face and upper trunk, become widespread, variegated, erythrodermic, and exfoliative, and are immunologically indistinguishable from pemphigus foliaceus or vulgaris. ... Synonym: Brazilian pemphigus, wildfire. ... Origin: Pg. Wild fir …

foil
1. A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil. ... 2. A thin leaf of sheet copper silvered and burnished, and afterwards coated with transparent colours mixed with isinglass; employed by jewelers to give colour or brilliancy to pastes and inferior stones. ... 3. Anything that serves by contrast of colour or quality to ado …

Foix-Alajouanine myelitis
Synonym for subacute necrotizing myelitis ... A disorder of the lower spinal cord in adult males resulting in progressive paraplegia. ... Synonym: angiodysgenetic myelomalacia, Foix-Alajouanine myelitis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Foix-Alajouanine syndrome
<syndrome> Thrombophlebitis of spinal veins resulting in a subacute ascending painful flaccid paralysis from necrotic myelitis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Foix-Cavany-Marie syndrome
<syndrome> Constellation of facio-pharyngo-glosso-masticatory diplegia with automatic voluntary dissociation without associated dementia or forced laughing or crying usually caused by bilateral large artery infarcts of the opercular cortex. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Foix, Charles
<person> French neurologist, 1882-1927. ... See: Foix-Alajouanine myelitis, Foix-Alajouanine syndrome, Foix-Cavany-Marie syndrome. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Fokker-Planck equation
<radiobiology> An equation that describes the time rate of change of a particle's velocity as a result of small-angle collisional deflections. Applicable when the cumulative effect of many small-angle collisions is greater than the effect of rarer large-angle deflections. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

folacin
An obsolete and now unapproved term for folic acid or any derivative thereof that has the biological (vitamin) activity of folic acid. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

folate
<biochemistry> Molecule that acts as a carrier of one carbon units in intermediary metabolism. It contains residues of p aminobenzoate, glutamate and a substituted pteridine. The latter cannot be synthesised by mammals, which must obtain tetrahydrofolate as a vitamin or from intestinal microorganisms. One carbon units are carried at three dif …

folate antagonist
<pharmacology> One of a group of substances which blocks the formation of nucleotides that require the presence of folate (one of the B vitamins) before they can be made. The substance does this by blocking key steps in the reaction sequence. These substances are often used to treat cancer because fast-growing cancerous cells usually need to …

fold
1. A ridge or margin apparently formed by the doubling back of a lamina. ... See: plica. ... 2. In the embryo, a transient elevation or reduplication of tissue in the form of a lamina. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

fold of chorda tympani
The fold of mucosa that surrounds the chorda tympani nerve in its course through the tympanic cavity. ... Synonym: plica chordae tympani. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

fold of laryngeal nerve
Synonym for fold of superior laryngeal nerve ... <anatomy, nerve> The slight fold of mucosa in the piriform recess of the pharynx that encloses the superior laryngeal nerve. ... Synonym: plica nervi laryngei, fold of laryngeal nerve. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

fold of left vena cava
A pericardial fold lying between the left oblique vein of the atrium and the left superior pulmonary vein containing the obliterated remains of the left superior vena cava. ... Synonym: plica venae cavae sinistrae, Marshall's vestigial fold, vestigial fold. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

fold of superior laryngeal nerve
<anatomy, nerve> The slight fold of mucosa in the piriform recess of the pharynx that encloses the superior laryngeal nerve. ... Synonym: plica nervi laryngei, fold of laryngeal nerve. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

fold-back elements
A type of transposable element that possesses long inverted repeats, such that when denatured, loops are formed. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

foldback DNA
<molecular biology> Sections of single-stranded DNA which have sequences that are palindromes, or which read the same both backwards and forwards, that may base pair with each other instead of with the right sections of the other strand during renaturation into double-stranded DNA. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

folded-lung syndrome
<syndrome> Collapse of part of the lung caught between shrinking fibrous pleura scars, sometimes resulting from pleural asbestosis. ... Synonym: round atelectasis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

folding
1. The act of making a fold or folds; also, a fold; a doubling; a plication. 'The lower foldings of the vest.' (Addison) ... 2. <agriculture> The keepig of sheep in inclosures on arable land, etc. Folding boat, a portable boat made by stretching canvas, etc, over jointed framework, used in campaigning, and by tourists, etc. Folding chair, a ch …

folding fracture
Synonym for torus fracture ... A deformity in children consisting of a local bulging caused by the longitudinal compression of the soft bone; it occurs commonly in the radius or ulna or both. ... Synonym: folding fracture. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

folds of iris
Numerous very fine, almost microscopic, radial folds on the posterior surface of the iris that extend around the pupillary margin. ... Synonym: plicae iridis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Foley catheter
<equipment> Flexible plastic tube inserted into the bladder to provide continuous urinary drainage. ... (12 Nov 1997) ...

Foley operation
Synonym for Foley Y-plasty pyeloplasty ... A reconstructive procedure for correction of ureteropelvic obstruction, whereby a Y-shaped flap of renal pelvis is advanced downward into a vertical incision in the upper ureter, thereby widening the ureteropelvic junction. ... Synonym: Foley operation. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Foley Y-plasty pyeloplasty
A reconstructive procedure for correction of ureteropelvic obstruction, whereby a Y-shaped flap of renal pelvis is advanced downward into a vertical incision in the upper ureter, thereby widening the ureteropelvic junction. ... Synonym: Foley operation. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Foley, Frederic
<person> U.S. Urologist, 1891-1966. ... See: Foley catheter, Foley operation, Foley Y-plasty pyeloplasty. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

folia
Plural of folium. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

folia cerebelli
cerebellar folia ...

folia linguae
Synonym for foliate papillae ... Numerous projections arranged in several transverse folds upon the lateral margins of the tongue just in front of the palatoglossus muscle. ... Synonym: papillae foliatae, folia linguae. ... Fungiform papillae, numerous minute elevations on the dorsum of the tongue, of a fancied mushroom shape, the tip being broader th …

foliaceous
<botany> Leaf-like. ... (12 Nov 1997) ...

foliage
1. Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage. ... 2. A cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches; especially, the representation of leaves, flowers, and branches, in architecture, intended to ornament and enrich capitals, friezes, pediments, etc. ... <botany> Foliage plant, any pl …

foliage volume
<botany> The space, expressed in cubic metres, occupied by a tree. ... (12 Nov 1997) ...

foliate
1. To beat into a leaf, or thin plate. ... 2. To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass. ... Origin: Foliated; Foliating. ... <botany> Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk. Foliate curve. ... <geometry> Same as Folium. ... Origin: L. Foliatus leaved, leafy, fr. Folium leaf. See Foliag …

foliate papillae
Numerous projections arranged in several transverse folds upon the lateral margins of the tongue just in front of the palatoglossus muscle. ... Synonym: papillae foliatae, folia linguae. ... Fungiform papillae, numerous minute elevations on the dorsum of the tongue, of a fancied mushroom shape, the tip being broader than the base; the epithelium of m …

foliated
1. Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell. ... 2. Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a foliated arch. ... 3. <chemical> Characterised by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure. ... 4. <geology> Laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crys …

foliation
1. The process of forming into a leaf or leaves. ... 2. The manner in which the young leaves are dispoed within the bud. ' The . . . Foliation must be in relation to the stem.' (De Quincey) ... 3. The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina. ... 4. The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making loo …

folic acid
<biochemistry> Pteridine derivative that is abundant in liver and green plants and is a growth factor for some bacteria. The biochemically active form is tetrahydrofolate (see folate). ... (12 Nov 1997) ...

folic acid antagonist
<pharmacology> A chemical which inhibits a cells capacity to use folic acid and so prevent cell division, for example methotrexate. ... See: chemotherapy. ... (12 Nov 1997) ...

folic acid antagonists
Inhibitors of the enzyme, dihydrofolate reductase (tetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase), which converts dihydrofolate (fh2) to tetrahydrofolate (fh4). They are frequently used in cancer chemotherapy. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

folic acid conjugate
A folate with three molecules of glutamic acid (pteropterin) instead of one, or with seven (pteroylheptaglutamic acid or vitamin Bc conjugate). ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

folic acid deaminase
<enzyme> Chemotaxis regulating enzyme; splits folic acid into 6-hydroxymethylpterin and p-aminobenzoylglutamic acid ... Registry number: EC 3.5.4.- ... Synonym: folic acid inactivating enzyme, folic acid c9-n10 cleaving enzyme ... (26 Jun 1999) ...

folic acid deficiency
A nutritional condition produced by a deficiency of folic acid in the diet. Many plant and animal tissues contain folic acid, abundant in green leafy vegetables, yeast, liver, and mushrooms but destroyed by long-term cooking. Alcohol interferes with its intermediate metabolism and absorption. Folic acid deficiency may develop in long-term anticonvu …

folic acid deficiency anaemia
Anaemia due to deficiency of folic acid, characterised by large-sized red blood cells (macrocytosis) and presence of large nuclei in erythroid precursor cells (megaloblasts) in the bone marrow. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

folic acid oxidase
<enzyme> Enzyme from human red blood cell membranes; catalyses oxidation of folic acid to pterin-6-aldehyde plus p-aminobenzoylglutamic acid in presence of h2o2; singlet oxygen is involved ... Registry number: EC 1.11.- ... (26 Jun 1999) ...

folie
Old term for madness or insanity. ... Origin: Fr. Folly ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

folie a deux
Identical or similar mental disorders, such as a paranoid fixation, usually affecting two members of the same family living together. ... Synonym: shared psychotic disorder. ... Origin: Fr. Two ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

folie du doute
An excessive doubting about all the affairs of life and a morbid scrupulousness concerning minutiae. ... Origin: Fr. From doubt ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

folie du pourquoi
A psychopathologic tendency to ask questions. ... Origin: Fr. Why ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

folie gemellaire
A psychosis appearing simultaneously, or nearly so, in twins, who are not necessarily living together or intimately associated at the time. ... Origin: Fr. Relating to twins ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Folin-Looney test
A test for tyrosine that gives a blue colour in alkaline solution with a reagent consisting of sodium tungstate, phosphomolybdic acid, and phosphoric acid. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Folin, Otto
<person> U.S. Biochemist, 1867-1934. ... See: Folin's reaction, Folin's test, Folin-Looney test. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Folin's reaction
The reaction of amino acids in alkaline solution with 1,2-naphthoquinone-4-sulfonate (Folin's reagent) to yield a red colour; useful for quantitative assay. ... Synonym: Folin's reagent. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Folin's reagent
Synonym for Folin's reaction ... The reaction of amino acids in alkaline solution with 1,2-naphthoquinone-4-sulfonate (Folin's reagent) to yield a red colour; useful for quantitative assay. ... Synonym: Folin's reagent. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Folin's test
A quantitative test for uric acid by means of the colour produced with phosphotungstic acid and a base; a quantitative test for urea; the urea is decomposed by boiling with magnesium chloride, and the freed ammonia is measured. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

folinate
A salt or ester of folinic acid. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

folinic acid
N5Formyl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydrofolic acid;the active form of folic acid which acts as a formyl group carrier in transformylation reactions; the calcium salt, leucovorin calcium, has therapeutic use. ... Synonym: citrovorum factor, leucovorin. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

folio
Origin: Ablative of L. Folium leaf. See 4th Foil. ... 1. A leaf of a book or manuscript. ... 2. A sheet of paper once folded. ... 3. A book made of sheets of paper each folded once (four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind. See Note under Paper. ... 4. The page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on …

folium vermis
Synonym for vermis folium ... A small posterior subdivision of the superior vermis of the cerebellum. ... Synonym: folium vermis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

folk medicine
Treatment of ailments outside of organised medicine by remedies and simple measures based upon experience and knowledge handed on from generation to generation. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

folklore
The common orally transmitted traditions, myths, festivals, songs, superstitions, and stories of all peoples. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

Folli, Cecilio
<person> Venitian anatomist, 1615-1660. ... See: Folli's process, follian process. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Folli's process
Synonym for anterior process of malleus ... A slender spur running anteriorward from the neck of the malleus toward the petrotympanic fissure. ... Synonym: processus anterior mallei, Folli's process, follian process, long process of malleus, processus gracilis, processus ravii, Rau's process, Ravius' process, slender process of malleus. ... (05 Mar 20 …

follian process
Synonym for anterior process of malleus ... A slender spur running anteriorward from the neck of the malleus toward the petrotympanic fissure. ... Synonym: processus anterior mallei, Folli's process, follian process, long process of malleus, processus gracilis, processus ravii, Rau's process, Ravius' process, slender process of malleus. ... (05 Mar 20 …

folliberin
A decapeptide of hypothalamic origin capable of accelerating pituitary secretion of follitropin. ... Synonym: follicle-stimulating hormone-releasing factor, follicle-stimulating hormone-releasing hormone. ... Origin: follicle-stimulating hormone + L. Libero, to free, + -in ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

follicle
1. <anatomy> Generally a small sac or vesicle. ... 2. <botany> A kind of fruit formed from a single carpel, that splits to release its seeds. ... 3. <dermatology> A hair follicle, an invagination of the epidermis into the dermis surrounding the hair root. ... 4. <gynaecology, physiology> An ovarian follicle, an oocyte surrounde …

follicle cell
<gynaecology, pathology> A layer of cells within an ovarian follicle which surrounds the oocyte (proto-ovum) and provides certain nutrients to it. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

follicle-stimulating hormone
<hormone> An acidic glycoprotein secreted by the anterior pituitary gland. In women, follicle-stimulating hormone stimulates the development of ovarian follicles (eggs) and stimulates the release of oestrogens. In men, follicle-stimulating hormone stimulates the production of sperm. ... Abnormal follicle-stimulating hormone levels may be seen …

follicles of thyroid gland
Synonym for folliculi glandulae thyroideae ... <physiology> The small spherical vesicular components of the thyroid gland lined with epithelium and containing colloid in varying amounts. The colloid serves for storage of the thyroid hormone precursor, thyroglobulin. ... Synonym: follicles of thyroid gland. ... Origin: L. A small sac, dim. Of fol …

follicular abscess
An abscess in a hair, tonsillar, or other follicle. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

follicular adenoma
<tumour> An adenoma of the thyroid with a simple glandular pattern. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

follicular antrum
<physiology> The cavity of an ovarian follicle filled with liquor folliculi. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

follicular atresia
<physiology> The degeneration and resorption of an ovarian follicle before it reaches maturity and ruptures. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

follicular cancer of the thyroid
<oncology, tumour> A cancer of the thyroid gland that occurs with increased frequency in those who have had radiation exposure to the neck. Other risk factors include a family history of thyroid disease and history for goitre. Follicular carcinoma constitutes about 30% of all thyroid cancers. It has a greater rate of recurrence and metastasis …

follicular carcinomas
Carcinoma's of the thyroid composed of well or poorly differentiated epithelial follicles without papillary formation, which are difficult to distinguish from adenomas; the criteria include blood vessel invasion and the finding of metastases of follicular thyroid tissue in other structures such as cervical lymph nodes and bone; follicular carcinoma …

follicular conjunctivitis
<ophthalmology> Conjunctivitis associated with hypertrophic lymphoid tissue in the conjunctival fornices. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

follicular cyst
<physiology> Cyst due to the occlusion of the duct of a follicle or small gland. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

follicular cystitis
<urology> Chronic cystitis characterised by small mucosal nodules due to lymphocytic infiltration. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

follicular dendritic cell
<pathology> A virus-trapping dendritic cell found in lymph node follicles (germinal centres). ... See: Germinal Centre and Dendritic Cell. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

follicular epithelial cell
<physiology> A cell lining a follicle such as that of the thyroid gland. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

follicular fluid
<physiology> A fluid consisting of sex steroid hormones, plasma proteins, mucopolysaccharides, and electrolytes that is present in the vesicular ovarian follicle (graafian follicle) surrounding the ovum. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

follicular gland
<anatomy> A gland consisting of follicles. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

follicular goiter
Synonym for parenchymatous goiter ... A form of goiter in which there is a great increase in the follicles with proliferation of the epithelium. ... Synonym: follicular goiter. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

follicular hormone
Synonym for oestrone ... estrone ...

follicular impetigo
<dermatology> A superficial follicular pustular eruption involving the scalp or other hairy area. ... Synonym: Bockhart's impetigo, superficial pustular perifolliculitis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

follicular iritis
<ophthalmology> Rarely used term for chronic iritis with glassy nodules situated deep down between the anterior and posterior layers of the iris. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

follicular lymphoma
Synonym for nodular lymphoma ... <tumour> A malignant lymphoma arising from lymphoid follicular B-cells which may be small or large, growing in a nodular pattern. ... Synonym: follicular lymphoma, giant follicular lymphoblastoma. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

follicular mange
Synonym for demodectic mange ... An infestation of the hair follicles and sebaceous glands with mites of the genus Demodex; they occur in humans and a number of domesticated animals; although asymptomatic in most species, these mites can cause severe and extensive dermatitis ('red mange') in dogs. ... Synonym: demodectic acariasis, follicular mange.< …

follicular mucinosis
<dermatology> A relatively uncommon benign eruption of discrete erythematous lesions progressing to alopecia on the face or scalp, usually in young people, in which there are cystic mucinous changes in the epithelium of hair follicles in the involved area. ... It may also develop in mycosis fungoides. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

follicular ovarian cells
Cell's of an ovarian follicle that surround the developing ovum; they form the stratum granulosum ovarii and cumulus oophorus. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

follicular papule
<dermatology> A papular lesion arising about a hair follicle. It is a feature that is not specific for any condition. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

follicular phase
<gynaecology, physiology> The follicular phase is the pre-ovulatory phase of a woman's reproductive cycle during which the follicle grows and high oestrogen levels cause the uterine lining to grow. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

follicular stigma
<gynaecology, physiology> The point where the graafian follicle is about to rupture on the surface of the ovary. ... Synonym: macula pellucida, stigma. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

follicular syphilid
Secondary eruption of small follicular papules, usually appearing as groups of lesions. ... Synonym: acuminate papular syphilid, lichen syphiliticus, miliary papular syphilid. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

follicular trachoma
<ophthalmology> The ordinary form of trachoma marked by the presence of granulations on the conjunctiva. ... Synonym: granular trachoma. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

follicular urethritis
<urology> Chronic urethritis with nodular lymphocytic infiltrations in the mucosa. ... Synonym: granular urethritis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

follicular vulvitis
<gynaecology> Inflammation of the vulvar follicles. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...