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mondofacto - Online Medical Dictionary
Category: Health and Medicine > Medical Dictionary
Date & country: 26/01/2008, UK
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Hassall's concentric corpuscleSynonym for thymic corpuscle ... Small spherical bodies of keratinised and usually squamous epithelial cells arranged in a concentric pattern around clusters of degenerating lymphocytes, eosinophils, and macrophages; found in the medulla of the lobules of the thymus. ... Synonym: Hassall's bodies, Hassall's concentric corpuscle, Virchow-Hassall bodie …
HasselbalchKarl, Danish biochemist and physician, 1874-1962. ... See: Henderson-Hasselbalch equation. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
hastate<botany> A type of leaf shape, generally like an arrowhead but with triangular lobes branching out from the base of the leaf approximately at right angles. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
hasty1. Involving haste; done, made, etc, in haste; as, a hasty sketch. ... 2. Demanding haste or immediate action. 'Hasty employment.' ... 3. Moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying; hence, acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash; easily excited; eager. ... 4. Made or reached without deliberation or due caution; as, a hasty conjecture, …
HAT medium<cell biology, cell culture> A selective growth medium for animal tissue cells that contains Hypoxanthine, the folate antagonist Aminopterin (or amethopterin) and Thymine. ... Used for selection of hybrid somatic cell lines, as in the production of monoclonal antibodies. In HAT medium, cells are forced to use these exogenous bases, via the sal …
hatch<ornithology> To produce young; said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc. ... 1. To cross with lines in a peculiar manne in drawing and engraving. See Hatching. 'Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched.' (Chapman) 'Those hatching strokes of the pencil.' (Dryden) ... 2. To cross; to spot; to s …
Hatch Slack Kortshak pathway<biochemistry> Metabolic pathway responsible for primary carbon dioxide fixation in C4 plant photosynthesis. ... The enzymes that are found in mesophyll chloroplasts include PEP carboxylase, that adds carbon dioxide to phosphoenolpyruvate to give the 4 carbon compound, oxaloacetate. Four carbon compounds are transferred to bundle sheath chloro …
hatchet1. A small ax with a short handle, to be used with one hand. ... 2. Specifically, a tomahawk. 'Buried was the bloody hatchet.' (Longfellow) Hatchet face, a thin, sharp face, like the edge of a hatchet; hence: Hatchet-faced, sharp-visaged. To bury the hatchet, to make peace or become reconciled. To take up the hatchet, to make or declare war. The las …
hatchet excavatorSee: hatchet. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
hate1. To have a great aversion to, with a strong desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to dislike intensely; to detest; as, to hate one's enemies; to hate hypocrisy. 'Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer.' (1 John III. 15) ... 2. To be very unwilling; followed by an infinitive, or a substantive clause with …
hateful1. Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent. 'And worse than death, to view with hateful eyes His rival's conquest.' (Dryden) ... 2. Exciting or deserving great dislike, aversion, or disgust; odious. 'Unhappy, wretched, hateful day!' (Shak) ... Synonym: Odious, detestable, abominable, execrable, loathsome, abhorrent, repugnant, malevolent.
hatteria
<zoology> A New Zealand lizard, which, in anatomical character, differs widely from all other existing lizards. It is the only living representative of the order Rhynchocephala, of which many Mesozoic fossil species are known. ... Synonym: Sphenodon, and Tuatera. ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
Haubenfelder
Synonym for fields of Forel ... Three circumscript, myelin-rich regions of the subthalamus known as H fields (from Haubenfelder); 1) field H1, corresponding to the thalamic fasciculus, a horizontal fibre stratum at the junction of the subthalamus and the overlying thalamus, is composed of pallidothalamic and cerebellothalamic fibres (brachium conjun …
Hauch
<microbiology> A term used to designate the flagellar antigen of bacteria. ... See: H antigen. ... Origin: Ger. Breath ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Haudek, Martin
<person> Austrian roentgenologist, 1880-1931. ... See: Haudek's niche. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Haudek's niche
<radiology> An archaic term for the radiographic appearance in profile of contrast material filling a gastric ulcer in the wall of the stomach. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
haughtiness
The quality of being haughty; disdain; arrogance. It denotes the expression of conscious and proud superiority; arrogance is a disposition to claim for one's self more than is justly due, and enforce it to the utmost; disdain in the exact reverse of condescension toward inferiors, since it expresses and desires others to feel how far below ourselve …
Hauser, G
<person> 20th century German gynecologist. ... See: Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome, Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
haustorium
<plant biology> A projection from a cell or tissue of a fungus or higher plant, that penetrates another plant and absorbs nutrients from it. ... In fungi it is a hyphal projection that penetrates into the cytoplasm of a host plant cell, in parasitic angiosperms, it is a modified root. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
haustra
Plural of haustrum. ... Origin: L. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
haustra coli
Synonym for haustra of colon ... <anatomy> The sacculations of the colon, caused by the teniae, or longitudinal bands, which are slightly shorter than the gut so that the latter is thrown into tucks or pouches. ... Synonym: haustra coli, haustrations of colon, sacculation of colon. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
haustra of colon
<anatomy> The sacculations of the colon, caused by the teniae, or longitudinal bands, which are slightly shorter than the gut so that the latter is thrown into tucks or pouches. ... Synonym: haustra coli, haustrations of colon, sacculation of colon. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
haustral
Relating to a haustrum. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
haustration
1. The process of formation of a haustrum. ... 2. An increase in prominence of the haustra. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
haustrations of colon
Synonym for haustra of colon ... <anatomy> The sacculations of the colon, caused by the teniae, or longitudinal bands, which are slightly shorter than the gut so that the latter is thrown into tucks or pouches. ... Synonym: haustra coli, haustrations of colon, sacculation of colon. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
haustrum
<anatomy> One of a series of saccules or pouches, so called because of a fancied resemblance to the buckets on a water wheel. ... Origin: L. A machine for drawing water, fr. Haurio, pp. Haustus, to draw up, drink up ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
haustus
<remedy> A potion or medicinal draft. ... Origin: L. A drink, draft ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
hautboy
1. A wind instrument, sounded through a reed, and similar in shape to the clarinet, but with a thinner tone. Now more commonly called oboe. ... 2. <botany> A sort of strawberry (Fragaria elatior). ... Origin: F. Hautbois, lit, high wood; haut high + bois wood. So called on account of its high tone. See Haughty, Bush; and cf. Oboe. ... Source: We …
HAV
Synonym for hepatitis A virus ... <virology> An RNA virus (hepatovirus) in the family Picornaviridae, that is the causative agent of viral hepatitis type A. ... The virus replicates in hepatocytes and is presumed to reach the intestine via the bile duct. Transmission occurs by the faecal-oral route. ... Synonym: infectious hepatitis virus. ... (2 …
Haverhill fever
<microbiology> An infection by Streptobacillus moniliformis marked by initial chills and high fever (gradually subsiding), by arthritis usually in the larger joints and spine, and by a rash occurring chiefly over the joints and on the extensor surfaces of the extremities. ... Haverhill fever is used to indicate Streptobacillus moniliformis inf …
Haverhillia multiformis
Synonym for Streptobacillus moniliformis ... A species commonly found as an inhabitant of the nasopharynx of rats; it occurs as the aetiologic agent of an epizootic septic polyarthritis in mice and of one type of rat-bite fever; it is the type species of the genus Streptobacillus. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Havers, Clopton
<person> British anatomist, was a London physician, but he also qualified in Utrecht in 1685 in which year he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society. ... Lived: 1650-1702. ... See: haversian canals, Havers' glands, haversian lamella, haversian spaces, haversian system. ... (05 Dec 1998) ...
Havers' glands
<anatomy> Collections of adipose tissue in the hip, knee, and other joints, covered by synovial membrane, thought by Havers to be gland's secreting the synovia. ... Synonym: synovial glands. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
haversian
Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
haversian canals
<anatomy> The small Vascular canal's that run longitudinally in the centre of haversian systems of compact osseous tissue, through which the blood vessels ramify in bone. ... Synonym: Leeuwenhoek's canals. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
haversian lamella
Synonym for concentric lamella ... One of the concentric tubular layers of bone surrounding the central canal in an osteon. ... Synonym: haversian lamella. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
haversian spaces
<anatomy> Space's in bone formed by the enlargement of haversian canals. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
haversian system
<anatomy> The basic unit of structure of compact bone, comprising a haversian canal and its concentrically arranged lamellae, of which there may be 4 to 20, each 3 to 7 microns thick, in a single haversian system. ... A haversian canal is a freely anastomosing channel in compact bone containing blood vessels and running longitudinally in the c …
HAVRIX
<virology> A vaccine against hepatitis A made of killed hepatitis a virus to stimulate the body's immune system to produce antibodies against the hepatitis a virus. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
haw
1. A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard. 'And eke there was a polecat in his haw.' (Chaucer) ... 2. The fruit of the hawthorn. ... Origin: OE. Hawe, AS. Haga; akin to D. Haag headge, G. Hag, hecke, Icel. Hagi pasture, Sw. Hage, Dan. Have garden. Cf. Haggard, Ha-ha, Haugh, Hedge. ... 3. <anatomy> The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nict …
hawaii
<geography> A group of islands in polynesia, in the north central pacific ocean, comprising eight major and 114 minor islands, largely volcanic and coral. ... Its capital is Honolulu. It was first reached by polynesians about 500 a.d. It was discovered and named the sandwich islands in 1778 by captain cook. The islands were united under the ru …
hawk
<ornithology> One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidae. ... They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and notch of the bill, and in having shorter and less pointed wings. Many are of large size and grade into the eagles. Some, as the goshawk, were formerly trained like falcons. In a …
hawk moth
<zoology> Any moth of the family Sphingidae, of which there are numerous genera and species. ... They are large, handsome moths, which fly mostly at twilight and hover about flowers like a humming bird, sucking the honey by means of a long, slender proboscis. The larvae are large, hairless caterpillars ornamented with green and other bright co …
Hawley appliance
Synonym for Hawley retainer ... <dentistry> A removable wire and acrylic palatal appliance used to retain or stabilise the teeth in their new position following orthodontic tooth movement; with modifications it can be used to move teeth as an active orthodontic appliance. ... Synonym: Hawley appliance. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Hawley retainer
<dentistry> A removable wire and acrylic palatal appliance used to retain or stabilise the teeth in their new position following orthodontic tooth movement; with modifications it can be used to move teeth as an active orthodontic appliance. ... Synonym: Hawley appliance. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Hawley, C
<person> U.S. Orthodontist. ... See: Hawley appliance, Hawley retainer. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Haworth conformational formula
<biochemistry> Of cyclic sugars, for the pyranoses, these depict those shapes (conformations) on which none, one, or two ring-atoms lie outside the plane of the ring. ... If there are two such atoms para to each other, they can lie 1) on opposite sides of the plane (trans), giving chair forms, or 2) on the same side of the plane (cis), giving …
Haworth perspective formula
<biochemistry> Of cyclic sugars, perspective representations of furanose or pyranose structures as pentagons or hexagons, respectively, with the connecting bonds so shaded as to make them appear as though the plane of the ring is at an angle of 30° to the plane of the paper, and the bonds to H and OH are at right angles to the plane of the ri …
Haworth, Sir Walter Norman
<person> British chemist and Nobel laureate, 1883-1950. ... See: Haworth conformational formulas of cyclic sugars, Haworth perspective formulas of cyclic sugars. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
hawthorn
<botany> A thorny shrub or tree (the Crataegus oxyacantha), having deeply lobed, shining leaves, small, roselike, fragrant flowers, and a fruit called haw. It is much used in Europe for hedges, and for standards in gardens. The American hawthorn is Crataegus cordata, which has the leaves but little lobed. ... Origin: AS. Hagaborn, haegorn. See …
Hawthorne effect
The effect (usually positive or beneficial) of being under study, upon the persons being studied; their knowledge of the study often influences their behaviour. ... Origin: city in Illinois; site of the Western Electric plant ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
hay
Grass cut and cured for fodder. 'Make hay while the sun shines.' (Camden) 'Hay may be dried too much as well as too little.' (C. L. Flint) Hay cap, a canvas covering for a haycock. ... <medicine> Hay fever, nasal catarrh accompanied with fever, and sometimes with paroxysms of dyspnoea, to which some persons are subject in the spring and summer …
hay bacillus
Synonym for bacillus subtilis ... <bacteria> Bacillus subtilis is a Gram-positive, rod-shaped, nonpathogenic bacterium which lives in soil. ... Its genome has been widely studied and is frequently used in genetic engineering and microbiology experiments. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
hay fever
<chest medicine> An inflammatory response in the nasal passages to an allergic stimulus. Often includes: nasal congestion, sneezing, runny or itchy nose. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...
haye
<zoology> The Egyptian asp or cobra (Naja haje) It is related to the cobra of India, and like the latter has the power of inflating its neck into a hood. Its bite is very venomous. It is supposed to be the snake by means of whose bite Cleopatra committed suicide, and hence is sometimes called Cleopatra's snake or asp. See Asp. ... Origin: Ar. …
Hayem-Widal syndrome
<clinical sign> An obsolete term for acquired haemolytic icterus. ... Synonym: Widal's syndrome. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Hayem, Georges
<person> French physician, 1841-1933. ... See: Hayem's haematoblast, Hayem's solution, Hayem-Widal syndrome. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Hayem's haematoblast
Synonym for platelet ... <haematology> A discoid cell (3m diameter) found in large numbers in blood, important for blood coagulation and for haemostasis by repairing breaches (small breaks) in the walls of blood vessels. ... Platelet _ granules contain lysosomal enzymes, dense granules contain ADP (a potent platelet aggregating factor) and sero …
Hayem's solution
<haematology> A blood diluent used prior to counting red blood cells. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Hayflick, Leonard
<person> U.S. Microbiologist, *1928. ... See: Hayflick's limit. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Hayflick's limit
<cell culture> The limit of human cell division in subcultures; such cells will divide only about 50 times before dying out. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Haygarth, John
<person> English physician, 1740-1827. ... See: Haygarth's nodes, Haygarth's nodosities. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Haygarth's nodes
<anatomy> Exostoses from the margins of the articular surfaces and from the periosteum and bone in the neighborhood of the joints of the fingers, leading to ankylosis and associated with lateral deflection of the fingers toward the ulnar side, which occur in rheumatoid arthritis. ... Synonym: Haygarth's nodosities. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Haygarth's nodosities
Synonym for Haygarth's nodes ... <anatomy> Exostoses from the margins of the articular surfaces and from the periosteum and bone in the neighborhood of the joints of the fingers, leading to ankylosis and associated with lateral deflection of the fingers toward the ulnar side, which occur in rheumatoid arthritis. ... Synonym: Haygarth's nodositi …
hazard
This is a general term for anything which has the ability to cause injury. The hazard associated with a potentially toxic substance is a function of its toxicity and the potential for exposure to the substance. The probability of exposure to the substance is a risk factor. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
hazard rate
<statistics> Theoretical measure of the risk of occurrence of an event, e.g., death, new disease, at a point in time. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
hazardous substances
Substances which, upon release into the atmosphere, water, or soil, or which, in direct contact with the skin, eyes, or mucous membranes, or as additives to food, cause health risks to humans or animals through absorption, inhalation, or ingestion. The concept includes safe handling, transportation, and storage of these substances. ... (12 Dec 1998) …
hazardous waste
Waste products which, upon release into the atmosphere, water or soil, cause health risks to humans or animals through skin contact, inhalation or ingestion. Hazardous waste sites which contain hazardous waste substances go here. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
hazel
1. Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand. 'I sit me down beside the hazel grove.' (Keble) ... 2. Of a light brown colour, like the hazelnut. 'Thou hast hazel eyes.' ... 3. <botany> A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the C. Avellana, bearing a nut containing a k …
Hb
Synonym for haemoglobin ... <cell biology, haematology> Four subunit globular oxygen carrying protein of the erythrocytes of vertebrates and some invertebrates. ... It is a conjugated protein containing four haem groups and globin. There are two alpha and two beta chains (very similar to myoglobin) in adult humans, the haem moiety (an iron cont …
Hb S
<abbreviation> Sickle cell haemoglobin. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
hb101
<microbiology> A substrain of the bacteria Escherichia coli which is unusually good (extremely efficient) at taking in introduced foreign DNA and incorporating it into its own genome. It is therefore commonly used as the host organism for growing recombinant DNA vectors. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
HBcAb
<abbreviation> Antibody to the hepatitis B core antigen. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
HBcAg
<abbreviation> Hepatitis B core antigen. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
HbChesapeake
Abbreviation for haemoglobin Chesapeake. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
HbCO
<abbreviation> Carboxyhemoglobin. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
HBE
<abbreviation> His bundle electrogram. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
HBeAb
<abbreviation> Antibody to the hepatitis B e antigen. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
HBeAg
<abbreviation> Hepatitis B e antigen. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
HBIG
Hepatitis B immune globulin, which contains antibodies to hepatits b virus and offers prompt but short lived protection. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
HbO2
<abbreviation> Oxyhemoglobin. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
HBsAb
<abbreviation> Antibody to the hepatitis B surface antigen. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
HBsAg
<immunology, virology> A serologic marker on the surface of the hepatitis B virus. The body will normally produce antibodies to hepatitis B surface antigen as part of the normal immune response to infection. It is the presence of antibodies to the hepatitis B surface antigen that are detected in a positive hepatitis B blood test. ... (27 Sep 1 …
HBV
Synonym for hepatitis b virus ... The type species of the genus orthohepadnavirus which causes human hepatitis b and is also apparently a causal agent in human hepatocellular carcinoma. The dane particle is an intact hepatitis virion, named after its discoverer. Non-infectious spherical and tubular particles are also seen in the serum. ... (12 Dec 19 …
HC toxin reductase
<enzyme> Nadph-dependent enzyme from maise which inactivates the cyclic tetrapeptide, hc toxin, from cochliobolus carbonum; amino acid sequence given in first source ... Registry number: EC 1.- ... Synonym: hm1 gene product ... (26 Jun 1999) ...
HCC
<abbreviation> 25-hydroxycholecalciferol, hepatocellular carcinoma. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
HCFA
The Health Care Finance Administration, the part of the U.S. Department of health and human services (hhs) that is responsible for administering medicare and medicaid. See: medicare. Also see: medicaid. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
HCG
Synonym for human chorionic gonadotrophin ... <hormone, tumour marker> A hormone that is produced by the developing placenta and by the fertilized egg after implantation in the uterine wall. ... This hormone is measured in the blood to determine pregnancy. Human chorionic gonadotrophin increases in quantity through the first trimester of pregna …
hck
<molecular biology> A nonreceptor tyrosine kinase, related to src. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
HCS
<abbreviation> Human chorionic somatomammotropic hormone; human chorionic somatomammotropin. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
hct
Synonym for haematocrit ... <haematology, investigation> Relative volume of blood occupied by erythrocytes. An average figure for humans is 45ml per cent, i.e. A packed red cell volume of 45ml in 100ml of blood. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
HCV
Synonym for hepatitis C virus ... A non-A, non-B RNA virus causing post-transfusion hepatitis; it appears to be a member of the family Flaviviridae. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Hcy
<abbreviation> Homocysteine. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
hd
<abbreviation> Mustard gas. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
HDCV
<abbreviation> Human diploid cell vaccine; human diploid cell rabies vaccine. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
HDL
Synonym for high density lipoprotein ... <biochemistry> These lipoproteins acts to carry cholesterol in the bloodstream. ... Raised high density lipoprotein levels have been correlated with a lower risk for heart disease. Less than 35 mg/dl is considered a positive risk factor for coronary artery disease, over 60 mg/dl is considered a negative …
hdl cholesterol
High-density lipoprotein cholesterol (the good cholesterol). ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
HDV
<abbreviation> Hepatitis delta virus. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
head
1. To be at the head of; to put one's self at the head of; to lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army, an expedition, or a riot. ... 2. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail. ... 3. To behead; to decapitate. ... 4. To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees. ... 5. To go in front of; to get in …
head and neck neoplasms
Neoplasms of the head and neck. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
