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


miliary papular syphilid
Synonym for 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) ...

miliary pattern
A chest radiographic pattern of fine, rounded opacities, typical of haematogenous dissemination of tuberculosis; size has some relationship to that of a millet seed. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

miliary tb
<radiology> Haematogenous dissemination of TB to lungs, millet seeds: myriad small nodules, upper lobe predilection, may be chronic and progressive: nodules of varying size, Differential diagnosis: haematogenous metastasis (lower lobes), CXR findings not seen until 6+ weeks after dissemination, resolves more rapidly with Treatment than air-bo …

miliary tuberculosis
Usually a chronic tuberculosis infection where spread of the original primary infection has occurred via the patients lymphatic system (or bloodstream). Disseminated disease occurs primarily in the immunocompromised individual (for example AIDS, cancer patient). The elderly are at increased risk for dissemination. In disseminated disease, organs an …

milieu
1. Surroundings; environment. ... 2. In psychiatry, the social setting of the mental patient, e.g., the family setting or a hospital unit. ... Origin: Fr. Mi, fr. L. Medius, middle, + lieu, fr. L. Locus, place ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milieu interieur
The internal environment; the fluids bathing the tissue cells of multicellular animals. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milieu therapy
A treatment program based on manipulation of the patient's environment by the medical staff. The patient does not participate in planning the treatment regimen. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

military antishock trousers
Synonym for pneumatic antishock garment ... An inflatable suit used to apply pressure to the peripheral circulation, thus reducing blood flow and fluid exudation into tissues, to maintain central blood flow in the presence of shock. ... Synonym: military antishock trousers. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

military dentistry
The practice of dentistry as applied to special circumstances associated with military operations. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

military medicine
The practice of medicine as applied to special circumstances associated with military operations. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

military neurosis
Synonym for war neurosis ... A stress condition or mental disorder induced by conditions existing in warfare. ... See: battle fatigue. ... Synonym: battle neurosis, military neurosis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

military nursing
The practice of nursing in military environments. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

military psychiatry
Branch of psychiatry concerned with problems related to the prevention, diagnosis, aetiology, and treatment of mental or emotional disorders of armed forces personnel. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

milium
A small subepidermal keratin cyst, usually multiple and therefore commonly referred to in the plural. ... Synonym: sebaceous tubercle, tuberculum sebaceum, whitehead. ... Origin: L. Millet ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milk
1. <physiology> A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts. 'White as morne milk.' ... 2. <botany> A kind of juice or sap, usually white in colour, found in certain plant …

milk anaemia
A type of hypochromic microcytic anaemia, resulting from deficiency of iron, occurring in infants maintained on a milk diet for too long a time. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milk banks
Centres for acquiring, storing, and distributing human milk. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

milk colic
Synonym for enterotoxaemia ... Disease caused by the liberation of exotoxins of clostridium perfringens in the intestines of sheep, goats, cattle, foals, and piglets. Type b enterotoxaemia in lambs is lamb dysentery; type c enterotoxaemia in mature sheep produces 'struck', and in calves, lambs and piglets it produces haemorrhagic enterotoxaemia; typ …

milk corpuscle
One of the fat droplets in milk. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milk crust
Synonym for crusta lactea ... Seborrhoea of the scalp in an infant. ... Synonym: milk crust, milk scall. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milk cyst
Synonym for lacteal cyst ... A retention cyst in the mammary gland resulting from closure of a lactiferous duct. ... Synonym: milk cyst. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milk ducts
Synonym for lactiferous ducts ... The ducts, numbering 15 or 20, which drain the lobes of the mammary gland; they open at the nipple. ... Synonym: ductus lactiferi, canalicular ducts, galactophore, galactophorous canals, galactophorous ducts, mamillary ducts, mammary ducts, milk ducts, tubuli galactophori, tubuli lactiferi. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milk ejection
Reflex in which tactile stimulation of nipples causes release of oxytocin which causes myoepithelial cells surrounding mammary alveoli to contract and expel the milk. Applies to humans and animals. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

milk factor
Synonym for mammary tumour virus of mice ... Member of the retrovirus subfamily Oncornavirinae, antigenically distinct from the murine leukaemia-sarcoma complex, that is associated with adenocarcinomatous tumours of the mammary gland, commonly latent in wild and laboratory mice and causing cancer only in genetically susceptible strains under certain …

milk fever
A slight elevation of temperature following childbirth, said to be due to the establishment of the secretion of milk, but probably the same as absorption fever, an afebrile metabolic disease, occurring shortly after parturition in dairy cattle, characterised by hypocalcaemia and manifested by loss of consciousness and general paralysis. ... Synonym: …

milk gland
Synonym for mammary gland ... <anatomy> Milk producing gland of female mammals. An adapted sweat gland, it is made up of milk producing alveolar cells, surrounded by contractile myoepithelial cells, together with considerable numbers of fat cells. Milk production is hormonally controlled. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

milk hypersensitivity
Allergic reaction to milk (usually cow's milk) or milk products. In infants the hypersensitivity is manifested by colic, vomiting, diarrhoea, rhinitis, wheezing, etc. Milk hypersensitivity should be differentiated from lactose intolerance, an intolerance to milk as a result of congenital deficiency of lactase. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

milk leg
Synonym for phlegmasia alba dolens ... An extreme edematous swelling of the leg following childbirth, due to thrombosis of the iliofemoral veins. ... Synonym: leukophlegmasia dolens, milk leg, puerperal phlebitis, thrombotic phlegmasia, white leg. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milk let-down reflex
Synonym for milk-ejection reflex ... Release of milk from the breast following tactile stimulation of the nipple; the afferent path is postulated to exist from the nipple to the hypothalamus; the efferent limb is represented by the neurohypophysial release of oxytocin into the systemic circulation; contraction of myoepithelial elements within the br …

milk line
Synonym for mammary ridge ... Bandlike thickening of ectoderm in the embryo extending on either side from just below the axilla to the inguinal region; in human embryos, the mammary glands arise from primordia in the thoracic part of the ridge, the balance of the ridge disappearing; in some lower mammals which give birth to a litter of young, severa …

milk of bismuth
A suspension of bismuth hydroxide and bismuth subcarbonate in water; used in gastrointestinal disorders as a protective agent. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milk of calcium
Densely calcified fluid, most often found radiographically in the gallbladder in association with chronic obstruction. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milk of magnesia
Mixture of magnesium hydroxide; an aqueous solution of magnesium hydroxide, used as an antacid and laxative. ... Synonym: magnesia magma. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milk of sulfur
Synonym for precipitated sulfur ... Sublimed sulfur boiled with lime water, the lime being removed from the precipitate by washing with diluted hydrochloric acid; used in preparing sulfur ointment and in the treatment of various skin disorders. ... Synonym: lac sulfuris, milk of sulfur. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milk proteins
The major protein constituents of milk are caseins and whey proteins such as lactalbumin and lactoglobulins. Immunoglobulins occur in high concentrations in colostrum and in relatively lower concentrations in milk. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

milk ridge
Synonym for mammary ridge ... Bandlike thickening of ectoderm in the embryo extending on either side from just below the axilla to the inguinal region; in human embryos, the mammary glands arise from primordia in the thoracic part of the ridge, the balance of the ridge disappearing; in some lower mammals which give birth to a litter of young, severa …

milk scall
Synonym for crusta lactea ... Seborrhoea of the scalp in an infant. ... Synonym: milk crust, milk scall. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milk sickness
An acute, often fatal disease caused by the ingestion of milk, milk products, or the flesh of cattle or sheep which have a disease known as trembles. It is marked by weakness, anorexia, vomiting, constipation, and sometimes muscular tremors. It is caused by poisoning by white snakeroot (eupatorium rugosum) and the rayless goldenrod (haplopappus het …

milk spots
White plaques of hyalinised fibrous tissue situated in the epicardium overlying the right ventricle of the heart where it is not covered by lung. ... Synonym: soldier's patches. ... White macroscopic areas in the omentum, due to accumulation of macrophages and lymphocytes. ... Synonym: tache laiteuse. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milk sugar
A disaccharide present in mammalian milk, used in infant formulas, large doses can act as a laxative. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...

milk tetter
An obsolete term for crusta lactea. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milk tooth
Synonym for deciduous tooth ... A tooth of the first set of teeth, comprising 20 in all, that erupts between the mean ages of 6 and 28 months of life. ... Synonym: dens deciduus, baby tooth, deciduous dentition, dens lacteus, first dentition, milk tooth, primary dentition, primary tooth, temporary tooth. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milk-alkali syndrome
<syndrome> A form of metabolic acidosis that can result from the excessive consumption of milk (calcium) and antacids (sodium bicarbonate) over a prolonged period of time. This can result in calcium deposits in the kidneys and body tissues. ... Symptoms include nausea, vomiting and weakness. May be seen as a complication of peptic ulcer therap …

milk-ejection reflex
Release of milk from the breast following tactile stimulation of the nipple; the afferent path is postulated to exist from the nipple to the hypothalamus; the efferent limb is represented by the neurohypophysial release of oxytocin into the systemic circulation; contraction of myoepithelial elements within the breast, caused by oxytocin, moves milk …

milk-ring test
A special form of agglutination test done on the pooled milk of many cows, usually entire herds, for the detection of herds containing individuals infected with bovine brucellosis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milker's nodule virus
A virus in the family Poxviridae. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milkers' nodes
Synonym for milkers' nodules ... An infection of cows' udders by pseudocowpox virus, a member of the Poxviridae, that is transmitted to the fingers and hands of milkers, producing nodules and lymphangitis, and occasionally widespread papular or papulovesicular eruptions; human infection is transferable to uninfected cows. ... Synonym: milkers' nodes, …

milkers' nodules
An infection of cows' udders by pseudocowpox virus, a member of the Poxviridae, that is transmitted to the fingers and hands of milkers, producing nodules and lymphangitis, and occasionally widespread papular or papulovesicular eruptions; human infection is transferable to uninfected cows. ... Synonym: milkers' nodes, paravaccinia, pseudocowpox. ... …

Milkman, Louis
<person> U.S. Roentgenologist, 1895-1951. ... See: Milkman's syndrome. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Milkman's syndrome
<syndrome> Osteomalacia with multiple pseudofractures, usually bilateral and symmetrical, may develop true pathologic fractures. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milkpox
Synonym for alastrim ... A mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent strain of the virus. ... Synonym: Cuban itch, Kaffir pox, milkpox, pseudosmallpox, pseudovariola, variola minor, West Indian smallpox, whitepox. ... Origin: Pg. Alastrar, to scatter over ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milky
1. Consisting of, or containing, milk. 'Pails high foaming with a milky flood.' (Pope) ... 2. Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. 'Milky juice.' ... 3. Yielding milk. 'Milky mothers.' ... 4. Mild; tame; spiritless. 'Has friendship such a faint and milky heart?' (Shak) Milky Way. ... <astronomy> See Galaxy. …

milky ascites
Synonym for chylous ascites ... <gastroenterology> A large collection of lymph fluid in the abdominal cavity, sometimes secondary to blockage of the main lymph duct or injury to it. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...

milky urine
Synonym for chylous urine ... Urine of a milky appearance, containing chyle. ... Synonym: milky urine. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

mill
1. A machine for grinding or commuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill. ... 2. A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc, from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a ci …

mill fever
Synonym for byssinosis ... <chest medicine> Exposures to cotton dust during the production of yarns, linen and rope can produce chronic obstructive lung disease (after 10 years). Early symptoms include chest tightness. ... Treatment includes bronchodilators and removal from work environment. ... (21 Mar 1998) ...

mill wheel murmur
Churning cardiac murmur produced by air embolism to the heart; also heard in pneumohydropericardium. ... Synonym: water wheel murmur. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

mill-kwh
A common method of pricing electricity. Tenths of a cent per kilowatt-hour. ... (05 Dec 1998) ...

Millard-Gubler syndrome
Synonym for Gubler's syndrome ... <syndrome> A form of alternating hemiplegia characterised by contralateral hemiplegia and ipsilateral facial paralysis. ... Synonym: Gubler's paralysis, Millard-Gubler syndrome. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Millard, Auguste
<person> French physician, 1830-1915. ... See: Millard-Gubler syndrome. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milled-in curves
Synonym for milled-in paths ... Contours carved by various mandibular movements into the occluding surface of an occlusion rim, by teeth or studs placed in the opposing occlusion rim; the curves or contours may be carved into wax, modeling plastic, or plaster of Paris, occlusal curves developed by masticatory or gliding movements of occlusion rims w …

milled-in paths
Contours carved by various mandibular movements into the occluding surface of an occlusion rim, by teeth or studs placed in the opposing occlusion rim; the curves or contours may be carved into wax, modeling plastic, or plaster of Paris, occlusal curves developed by masticatory or gliding movements of occlusion rims which are composed of materials …

miller
1. One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill. ... 2. A milling machine. ... 3. <zoology> A moth or lepidopterous insect; so called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes. Called also moth miller. The eagle ray. ... The hen harrier. Miller's thumb. ... <zoology> A small fresh water …

miller fisher syndrome
<syndrome> A syndrome characterised by total external ophthalmoplegia, cerebellar ataxia, and loss of tendon reflexes. Early symptoms include fever, headache, and pneumonia. They are followed by facial paralysis, diplopia, and paresthesia of the arms and trunk. It is sometimes viewed as a variant of guillain-barre syndrome. ... (12 Dec 1998)
Miller-Abbott tube
A tube with two lumens, one ending in a small collapsible balloon and the other in a metallic tip with numerous perforations; used for intestinal decompression. ... Synonym: Abbott's tube. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Miller, Thomas Grier
<person> U.S. Physician, *1886. ... See: Miller-Abbott tube. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Miller, Willoughby
<person> U.S. Dentist, 1853-1907. ... See: Miller's chemicoparasitic theory. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

miller's asthma
Asthma caused by flour or grain allergens. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Miller's chemicoparasitic theory
That dental caries is caused by microorganisms of the mouth fermenting dietary carbohydrates and producing acids that demineralise the teeth. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

millet
<botany> The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of Germany and Southern Europe are Panicum miliaceum, and Setaria Italica. ... Arabian millet is Sorghum Halepense. Egyptian or East Indian, millet is Penicillaria spicata. Indian millet is Sorghum vulgare. (See Indian) I …

millet seed
The seed of a grass, formerly used as a rough designation of size of about 2 mm in diameter. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milli-
<prefix> A prefix denoting a thousandth part of; as, millimetre, milligram, milliampere. ... Origin: From L. Mille a thousand ... (29 Oct 1998) ...

millibar
One-thousandth of a bar; 100 newtons/sq m; 0.75006 mm Hg; standard atmospheric pressure is 1013 millibars. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

millicurie
A unit of radioactivity equivalent to 3.7 &times; 107 disintegrations per second. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milliequivalent
One-thousandth equivalent; 10-3 mole divided by valence. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milligram
<unit> One thousandth of a gram. ... Abbreviation: mg ... (12 Jan 1998) ...

milligram hour
An obsolete term for a unit of exposure in radium therapy, i.e., the application of 1 milligram of radium during 1 hour. ... Synonym: milligramage. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milligramage
Synonym for milligram hour ... An obsolete term for a unit of exposure in radium therapy, i.e., the application of 1 milligram of radium during 1 hour. ... Synonym: milligramage. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

millilambert
One thousandth of a lambert; a unit of brightness equal to 0.929 lumen per square foot (roughly, 1 equivalent footcandle). ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milliliter
One-thousandth of a liter. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

millimeter
One-thousandth of a meter. ... Abbreviation: mm ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

millimicro-
<prefix> Prefix formerly used to signify one-billionth (10-9); now nano-. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

millimicron
Former term for nanometer. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

millimole
One-thousandth of a gram-molecule. ... Abbreviation: mmol ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milliner
1. Formerly, a man who imported and dealt in small articles of a miscellaneous kind, especially such as please the fancy of women. 'No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves.' (Shak) ... 2. A person, usually a woman, who makes, trims, or deals in hats, bonnets, headdresses, etc, for women. Man milliner, a man who makes or deals in millinery; …

milling
The act or employment of grinding or passing through a mill; the process of fulling; the process of making a raised or intented edge upon coin, etc.; the process of dressing surfaces of various shapes with rotary cutters. See Mill. High milling, milling in which grain is reduced to flour by a succession of crackings, or of slight and partial crushi …

milling-in
Refining the occlusion of teeth by the use of abrasives between their occluding surfaces while the dentures are rubbed together in the mouth or on the articulator. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milliosmole
One-thousandth of an osmole. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

millipede
A venomous nonpredaceous arthropod of the order Diplopoda, characterised by two pairs of legs per leg-bearing segment. The venom is purely defensive, oozed or squirted from pores along the body, producing irritation to the skin or severe inflammation if it reaches the eyes. ... Origin: milli-+ L. Pes, pedis, foot ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Millipore filter
<cell culture, equipment> Trade name for a well known brand of micropore filters. ... (12 Jan 1998) ...

millisecond
One-thousandth of a second. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

millivolt
One thousandth of a volt. ... Abbreviation: mV ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Millner needle
A fine, non-cutting needle with eye for thread frequently used for suture of skin. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Millon
Auguste N.E., French chemist, 1812-1867. ... See: Millon reaction, Millon's reagent, Millon-Nasse test. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Millon reaction
The reaction of phenolic compounds (e.g., tyrosine in protein) with Hg(NO3)2 in HNO3 (and a trace of HNO2) to give a red colour. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Millon-Nasse test
A test for protein, the tyrosine of which reacts with nitrite after a brief treatment with mercuric ion in acid to give a colour. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Millon's reagent
Mercuric nitrate and nitric acid as used in the Millon reaction. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

millstone
One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance. 'No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge.' (Deut. Xxiv. 6) ... The cellular siliceous rock called buhrstone is usually employed for millstones; also, some kinds of lava, as that Niedermendig, or other firm rock with rough texture. The surface of a millstone …

milphosis
Loss of eyelashes. ... Synonym: madarosis. ... Origin: G. Milphosis ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

milrinone
A xanthine oxidase inhibitor which increases the force of contraction of the heart; used in congestive heart failure; resembles amrinone; cardiotonic. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...