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


nursing homes
Facilities which provide nursing supervision and limited medical care to persons who do not require hospitalization. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

nursing methodology research
Research carried out by nurses concerning techniques and methods to implement projects and to document information, including methods of interviewing patients, collecting data, and forming inferences. The concept includes exploration of methodological issues such as human subjectivity and human experience. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

nursing model
A set of abstract and general statements about the concepts that serve to provide a framework for organizing ideas about clients, their environment, health and nursing. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nursing plan of care
The written framework that provides direction for the delivery of nursing care. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nursing process
The sum total of nursing activities which includes assessment (identifying needs), intervention (ministering to needs), and evaluation (validating the effectiveness of the help given). ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

nursing records
Data recorded by nurses concerning the nursing care given to the patient, including judgment of the patient's progress. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

nursing research
Research carried out by nurses, generally in clinical settings, in the areas of clinical practice, evaluation, nursing education, nursing administration, and methodology. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

nursing service, hospital
The hospital department which is responsible for the organization and administration of nursing activities. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

nursing services
A general concept referring to the organization and administration of nursing activities. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

nursing staff
Personnel who provide nursing service to patients in an organised facility, institution, or agency. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

nursing staff, hospital
Personnel who provide nursing service to patients in a hospital. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

nursing theory
Concepts, definitions, and propositions applied to the study of various phenomena which pertain to nursing and nursing research. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

nursing, practical
The practice of nursing by licensed, non-registered persons qualified to provide routine care to the sick. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

nursing, private duty
The practice of nursing by a registered or licensed nurse to care for a specific patient in a health facility or in the home. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

nursing, supervisory
Administration of nursing services for one or more clinical units. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

nursing, team
Coordination of nursing services by various nursing care personnel under the leadership of a professional nurse. The team may consist of a professional nurse, nurses' aides, and the practical nurse. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

nurture
1. To feed; to nourish. ... 2. To educate; to bring or train up. 'He was nurtured where he had been born.' (Sir H. Wotton) ... Synonym: To nourish, nurse, cherish, bring up, educate, tend. ... To Nurture, Nourish, Cherish. Nourish denotes to supply with food, or cause to grow; as, to nourish a plant, to nourish rebellion. To nurture is to train up wit …

Nussbaum, Johann von
<person> German surgeon, 1829-1890. ... See: Nussbaum's bracelet. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Nussbaum, Moritz
<person> German histologist, 1850-1915. ... See: Nussbaum's experiment. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Nussbaum's experiment
Exclusion of the glomeruli of the kidney from the circulation by ligation of the renal artery in animals, such as the frog, that have a renal portal system to maintain circulation to the tubules. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nut
1. <botany> The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel. ... 2. A perforated block (usually a small piece of metal), provided with an internal or female screw thread, used on a bolt, or screw, for tightening or holding something, o …

nutation
1. The act of nodding. 'So from the midmost the nutation spreads, Round and more round, o'er all the sea of heads.' (Pope) ... 2. <astronomy> A very small libratory motion of the earth's axis, by which its inclination to the plane of the ecliptic is constantly varying by a small amount. ... 3. <botany> The motion of a flower in following …

nutgall
An excrescence on the oak, Quercus infectoria (family Fagaceae) and other species of Quercus, caused by the deposit of the ova of a fly, Cynips gallae tinctorae; an astringent and styptic, by virtue of the tannin it contains. ... Synonym: gall, galla, oak apple. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nutmeg
<botany> The kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg tree (Myristica fragrans), a native of the Molucca Islands, but cultivated elsewhere in the tropics. ... This fruit is a nearly spherical drupe, of the size of a pear, of a yellowish colour without and almost white within. This opens into two nearly equal longitudinal valves, inclosing the nut sur …

nutmeg liver
Chronic passive congestion of the liver, causing accentuation of the lobular pattern with red central and yellow or tan periportal zones. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nutmeg oil
The volatile oil distilled from the dried kernels of the ripe seeds of Myristica fragrans; used as a flavoring agent and a carminative; in large quantities, it may produce narcosis and delirium; the fixed oil expressed from M. Fragrans is used as a rubefacient. ... Synonym: myristica oil. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nutramigen
BENEFITS: 1. Provides nutrition for growth and development in baby's first year and beyond 2. May avoid allergic symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhoea, rash, sleeplessness or colic due to cow's milk protein intolerance. 3. Provides results within 48 hours if colic is due to cow's milk protein allergy 4. Predigested protein is hypoallergenic CHARACTE …

nutrient
1. Nourishing, affording nutriment. ... 2. A nutritious substance, food or a component of food. ... Origin: L. Nutriens ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

nutrient agar
A simple solid medium containing beef extract, peptone, agar, and water; used for growing many common heterotrophic bacteria. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nutrient arteries of humerus
Origin, deep brachial; distribution, the medullary cavity of the humerus. ... Synonym: arteriae nutriciae humeri. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nutrient artery
<anatomy, artery> An artery of variable origin that supplies the medullary cavity of a long bone. ... Synonym: arteria nutricia, nutrient vessel. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nutrient artery of femur
One of two artery's, superior and inferior, arising from the first and third perforating arteries respectively (sometimes second and fourth). ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nutrient artery of fibula
Origin, peroneal (fibular); distribution, fibula. ... Synonym: arteria nutriens fibulae. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nutrient artery of the tibia
Artery derived from the upper part of the posterior tibial artery; it enters through the nutrient foramen on the posterior surface of the tibia. ... Synonym: arteria nutriens tibialis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nutrient canal
A canal in the shaft of a long bone or in other locations in irregular bones through which the nutrient artery enters a bone. ... Synonym: canalis nutricius. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nutrient enema
A rectal injection of predigested food. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nutrient foramen
The external opening of the nutrient canal in a bone. ... Synonym: foramen nutricium. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nutrient medium
Synonym for culture medium ... A substance, either solid or liquid, used for the cultivation, isolation, identification, or storage of microorganisms. ... Synonym: growth medium, medium, nutrient medium. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nutrient vessel
Synonym for nutrient artery ... <anatomy, artery> An artery of variable origin that supplies the medullary cavity of a long bone. ... Synonym: arteria nutricia, nutrient vessel. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nutrilites
Essential nutritional factors. ... Origin: L. Nutrio, to suckle, nourish ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nutriment
1. That which nourishes; anything which promotes growth and repairs the natural waste of animal or vegetable life; food; aliment. 'The stomach returns what it has received, in strength and nutriment diffused into all parts of the body.' (South) ... 2. That which promotes development or growth. 'Is not virtue in mankind The nutriment that feeds the m …

nutrition
All foods, the physical and chemical process by which food is converted into body tissue. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...

nutrition assessment
Evaluation and measurement of nutritional variables in order to assess the level of nutrition or the nutritional status of the individual. Nutrition surveys may be used in making the assessment. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

nutrition policy
Governmental guidelines and objectives pertaining to public food supply and nutrition including recommendations for healthy diet and changes in food habits to ensure healthy diet. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

nutrition surveys
A systematic collection of factual data pertaining to the nutritional status of a human population within a given geographic area. Data from these surveys are used in preparing nutrition assessments. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

nutritional amblyopia
Amblyopia resulting from lack of vitamin B-complex constituents. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nutritional anaemia
Any anaemia resulting from a dietary deficiency of materials essential to red blood cell formation, e.g., iron, vitamins (especially folic acid), protein. ... Synonym: deficiency anaemia. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nutritional and metabolic diseases
A collective term for nutritional disorders (result of poor assimilation or utilization of food) and metabolic disorders (result of poor metabolism or inherited enzyme abnormality). ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

nutritional cirrhosis
Cirrhosis occurring in persons or animals with general or specific dietary deficiencies; methionine and cystine deficiency may produce changes of cirrhosis in animals, but it is uncertain whether malnutrition in humans leads to cirrhosis or only to reversible fatty infiltration of the liver. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nutritional dropsy
Oedema due to hypoproteinaemia secondary to malnutrition. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nutritional energy
Synonym for trophodynamics ... The dynamics of nutrition or metabolism. ... Synonym: nutritional energy. ... Origin: tropho-+ G. Dynamis, power ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nutritional haemosiderosis
A disease seen in black South Africans that results from ingestion of iron in foodstuffs prepared in iron vessels; excessive absorption of iron affects the liver. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nutritional macrocytic anaemia
Macrocytic, megaloblastic anaemia due to deficiency of either folate or vitamin B12. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nutritional marasmus
Extreme weakness and wasting secondary to malnutrition. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nutritional oedema
A form of swelling caused by insufficient protein intake resulting in hypoproteinaemia and low plasma oncotic pressure. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nutritional polyneuropathy
A disorder of multiple peripheral nerves, noted in beriberi, chronic alcoholism, and other clinical states, resulting from thiamin deficiency. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nutritional status
State of the body in relation to the consumption and utilization of nutrients. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

nutritional support
The administration of nutrients for assimilation and utilization by a patient by means other than normal eating. It does not include fluid therapy which normalises body fluids to restore water-electrolyte balance. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

nutritional type cerebellar atrophy
A restricted type of cerebellar cortical degeneration, affecting particularly the Purkinje cells of the anterior and superior vermis; probably caused by thiamin deficiency; most frequently seen in chronic alcoholics and then called alcoholic cerebellar degeneration. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nutritionist
A specialist in nutrition. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

nutritive
Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, the nutritive functions; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; as, nutritive food or berries. Nutritive plasma. ... <biology> Any one of the zooids of a compound hydroid, or coral, which has a mouth and digestive cavity. Nu'tritively, Nu'tritiveness. ... Origin: Cf. F. Nutritif. …

nutritive ratio
The ratio or proportion of digestible protein to digestible non-nitrogenous nutrients in a ration for livestock. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nutritive value
An indication of the contribution of a food to the nutrient content of the diet. This value depends on the quantity of a food which is digested and absorbed and the amounts of the essential nutrients (protein, fat, carbohydrate, minerals, vitamins) which it contains. This value can be affected by soil and growing conditions, handling and storage, a …

nutriture
State or condition of the nutrition of the body; state of the body with regard to nourishment. ... Origin: L. Nutritura, a nursing, fr. Nutrio, to nourish ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nuts
Dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

nutshell
1. The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of a nut is inclosed. ... 2. Hence, a thing of little compass, or of little value. ... 3. <zoology> A shell of the genus Nucula. To be, or lie, in a nutshell, to be within a small compass; to admit of very brief or simple determination or statement. 'The remedy lay in a nutshell.' ... So …

Nuttall
G. H. F., U.S. Biologist, 1862-1937. ... See: Nuttallia. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Nuttallia
Former name for Babesia. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Nva
<abbreviation> Norvaline. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nyct-
See: nycto-. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nyctalgia
Denoting especially the osteocopic pains of syphilis occurring at night. ... Synonym: night pain. ... Origin: nyct-+ G. Algos, pain ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nyctalopia
Night blindness or difficulty in seeing at night. Symptom of vitamin A deficiency. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...

nyctanopia
Synonym: nyctalopia. ... Origin: nyct-+ G. An-priv. + opsis, sight ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nycterine
1. By night. ... 2. Dark or obscure. ... Origin: G. Nykterinos ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nycterohemeral
Synonym: nyctohemeral. ... Origin: G. Nykteros, by night, nightly, + haemra, day ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nycto-
Nyct- ... Night, nocturnal. ... See: noct-. ... Origin: G. Nyx ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nyctohemeral
Both daily and nightly. ... Synonym: nycterohemeral. ... Origin: nycto-+ G. Haemra, day ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nyctophilia
Preference for the night or darkness. ... Synonym: scotophilia. ... Origin: nycto-+ G. Philos, fond ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nyctophobia
<psychology> Fear of night. ... Origin: Gr. Phobos = fear ... (16 Mar 1998) ...

Nyctotherus
A genus of Ciliophora, one species of which, Nyctotherus faba, has been reported, though rarely, from the human intestine; it is generally found in amphibia. ... Origin: G. Nyktotheras, one who hunts by night, fr. Therao, to hunt, fr. Ther, wild beast ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nycturia
Synonym for nocturia ... <symptom> The excessive urination at night. ... Origin: L. Nox = night, Gr. Ouron = urine ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

Nyhan
William L. U.S. Paediatrician, *1926. ... See: Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nylgau
<zoology> A large Asiatic antelope (Boselaphus, or Portax, tragocamelus), found in Northern India. It has short horns, a black mane, and a bunch of long hair on the throat. The general colour is grayish brown. ... Alternative forms: neelghau, nilgau, and nylghaie. ... Origin: Hind. & Per. Nilgaw, prop, a blue cow; Per. Nil blue + gaw cow. S …

nylidrin
<chemical> A beta-adrenergic agonist. Nylidrin causes peripheral vasodilation, a positive inotropic effect, and increased gastric volume of gastric juice. It is used in the treatment of peripheral vascular disorders and premature labour. ... Pharmacological action: adrenergic beta-agonists, sympathomimetic, tocolytic agents, vasodilator agents …

nylidrin hydrochloride
1-(p-Hydroxyphenyl)-2-(1-methyl-3-phenylpropylamino) propanol hydrochloride;a sympathomimetic agent, similar to isoproterenol, that produces vasodilation of arterioles of skeletal muscles and increases muscle blood flow; used in the treatment of peripheral vascular diseases. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nylons
Polymers where the main polymer chain comprises recurring amide groups. These compounds are generally formed from combinations of diamines, diacids, and amino acids and yield fibres, sheeting, or extruded forms used in textiles, gels, filters, sutures, contact lenses, and other biomaterials. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

nymph
1. A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters. 'Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas ?' (Milton) ... 2. Hence: A lovely young girl; a maiden; a damsel. 'Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remembered.' (Shak) ... 3. <zoology> The pupa of an insect; a chrysalis. ... 4. <zoolo …

nymphaea
<botany> A genus of aquatic plants having showy flowers (white, blue, pink, or yellow, often fragrant), including the white water lily and the Egyptia lotus. ... Recent critics have endeavored to show that this genus should be called Castalia, and the name Nymphaea transferred to what is now known as Nuphar. ... Origin: L, the water lily, Gr.
nymphal
1. Pertaining to a nymph. ... 2. Pertaining to the labia minora (nymphae). ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nymphectomy
<procedure> Surgical removal of hypertrophied labia minora. ... Origin: nympha + G. Ektome, excision ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nymphitis
Inflammation of the labia minora. ... Origin: nympha + G. -itis, inflammation ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nympho-
Nymph- ... The nymphae (labia minora). ... Origin: L. Nympha ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nymphocaruncular sulcus
A groove between the labium minor and the border of the remains of the hymen, in which is the opening of the duct of the greater vestibular gland on either side. ... Synonym: nymphohymenal sulcus, sulcus nymphocaruncularis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nymphohymenal sulcus
Synonym for nymphocaruncular sulcus ... A groove between the labium minor and the border of the remains of the hymen, in which is the opening of the duct of the greater vestibular gland on either side. ... Synonym: nymphohymenal sulcus, sulcus nymphocaruncularis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nympholabial
Relating to the labia minora (nymphae) and the labia majora; denoting a furrow between the two labia on each side. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nympholepsy
Demoniac frenzy, especially of an erotic nature. ... Origin: nympho-+ G. Lepsis, a seizure ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nymphomaniac
A female exhibiting nymphomania. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nymphomaniacal
Pertaining to, or exhibiting, nymphomania. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nymphoncus
Swelling or hypertrophy of one or both labia minora. ... Origin: nympho-+ G. Onkos, tumour ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

nystagmic
Relating to or suffering from nystagmus. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...