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


phleboclysis
Intravenous injection of an isotonic solution of dextrose or other substances in quantity. ... Synonym: venoclysis. ... Origin: phlebo-+ G. Klysis, a washing out ... Drip phleboclysis, intravenous injection of a liquid drop by drop, by the drip method. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlebodynamics
Laws and principles governing blood pressures and flow within the venous circulation. ... Origin: phlebo-+ G. Dynamis, force ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlebogram
<physiology> A tracing (with the sphygmograph) of the movements of a vein, or of the venous pulse. ... Origin: Gr. Phlebos = vein. ... (11 Jun 1998) ...

phlebograph
A venous sphygmograph; an instrument for making a tracing of the venous pulse. ... Origin: phlebo-+ G. Grapho, to write ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlebography
1. <investigation> Roentgenography of a vein or veins by use of contrast medium. ... 2. <procedure> The graphic recording of the venous pulse. ... Origin: Gr. Phlebos = vein, graphein = to write ... (11 Jun 1998) ...

phleboid
1. Resembling a vein. ... Synonym: venous. ... 3. Containing many veins. ... Origin: phlebo-+ G. Eidos, resemblance ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlebolite
Synonym for phlebolith ... <cardiology, pathology> A concretion or stone within a cardiovascular vein. ... Origin: Gr. Phlebos = vein. ... (11 Jun 1998) ...

phlebolith
<cardiology, pathology> A concretion or stone within a cardiovascular vein. ... Origin: Gr. Phlebos = vein. ... (11 Jun 1998) ...

phlebolithiasis
The formation of phleboliths. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlebology
<study> A branch of anatomy which treats of the veins. ... Origin: Gr. Phlebos = vein. ... (11 Jun 1998) ...

phlebomanometer
A manometer for measuring venous blood pressure. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlebometritis
Inflammation of the uterine veins. ... Origin: phlebo-+ G. Metra, uterus, + -itis, inflammation ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlebomyomatosis
Thickening of the walls of a vein by an overgrowth of muscular fibres arranged irregularly, intersecting each other without any definite relation to the axis of the vessel. ... Origin: phlebo-+ myoma + G. -osis, condition ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlebophlebostomy
Synonym for venovenostomy ... <procedure> The formation of an anastomosis between two veins. ... Synonym: phlebophlebostomy. ... Origin: veno-+ veno-+ G. Stoma, mouth ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phleboplasty
Repair of a vein. ... Origin: phlebo-+ G. Plastos, formed ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phleborrhagia
An obsolete term for venous haemorrhage. ... Origin: phlebo-+ G. Rhegnymi, to burst forth ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phleborrhaphy
Suture of a vein. ... Origin: phlebo-+ G. Rhaphe, seam ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phleborrhexis
An obsolete term for rupture of a vein. ... Origin: phlebo-+ G. Rhexis, rupture ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlebosclerosis
Fibrous hardening of the walls of the veins. ... Synonym: venofibrosis, venosclerosis. ... Origin: phlebo-+ G. Sklerosis, hardening ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlebostasis
1. Abnormally slow motion of blood in veins, usually with venous distention. ... 2. Treatment of congestive heart failure by compressing proximal veins of the extremities with tourniquets. ... Synonym: bloodless phlebotomy. ... Synonym: venostasis. ... Origin: phlebo-+ G. Stasis, a standing still ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlebostenosis
Narrowing of the lumen of a vein from any cause. ... Origin: phlebo-+ G. Stenosis, a narrowing ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlebostrepsis
An obsolete term for twisting the cut or torn end of a vein to arrest haemorrhage. ... Origin: phlebo-+ G. Strepsis, a twisting ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlebothrombosis
Thrombosis, or clotting, in a vein without primary inflammation. ... Origin: phlebo-+ thrombosis ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlebotomine
Relating to sand flies of the genus Phlebotomus. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlebotomise
To let blood from by opening a vein; to bleed. ... Origin: Gr. Phlebos = vein. ... (11 Jun 1998) ...

phlebotomist
<medicine> One who practiced phlebotomy. ... Origin: Gr. Phlebos = vein. ... (11 Jun 1998) ...

phlebotomus
A genus of psychodidae which functions as the vector of a number of pathogenic organisms, including leishmania donovani, leishmania tropica, bartonella bacilliformis, and the pappataci fever virus (sandfly fever group viruses). ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

Phlebotomus argentipes
The vector of kala azar in India. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Phlebotomus chinensis
The vector of kala azar in China. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlebotomus fever
Influenza-like febrile viral disease caused by several members of the bunyaviridae family and transmitted mostly by the bloodsucking sandfly phlebotomus papatasii. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

phlebotomus fever viruses
An unclassified serologic group of arboviruses morphologically like Bunyavirus but antigenically unrelated, transmitted by Phlebotomus papatasi (sandfly) and causing phlebotomus fever; there are 20 strains, including Icoarachi and Itaporanga. ... Synonym: pappataci fever viruses, sandfly fever viruses. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Phlebotomus flaviscutellatus
Synonym for Lutzomyia flaviscutellata ... A sandfly species that is a vector of Leishmania mexicana, the agent of chiclero's ulcer. ... Synonym: Phlebotomus flaviscutellatus. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Phlebotomus longipalpis
A vector of kala azar in South America. ... Synonym: Lutzomyia longipalpis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Phlebotomus major
A vector of kala azar in the Mediterranean region. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Phlebotomus noguchi
The transmitter of Bartonella organisms, the causal agent of Oroya fever. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Phlebotomus orientalis
A vector of kala azar in the Sudan. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Phlebotomus papatasii
Transmitter of the virus of phlebotomus fever; also a vector of Leishmania tropica in the Mediterranean area. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Phlebotomus perniciosus
A vector of kala azar in the Mediterranean region. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Phlebotomus sergenti
A vector of Leishmania tropica, the cause of anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Phlebotomus verrucarum
A form found in Peru that transmits Bartonella organisms, the causal agent of Oroya fever. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlebotomy
<procedure, surgery> To puncture a vein for the purpose of withdrawing blood. ... Origin: Gr. Phlebos = vein. ... (11 Jun 1998) ...

phlebovirus
A genus of the family bunyaviridae comprising many viruses, most of which are transmitted by phlebotomus flies and cause phlebotomus fever. The type species is sandfly fever sicilian virus, which is not part of the antigenic complex sandfly fever group viruses. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

phlegm
1. One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor. ... 2. <physiology> Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the respiratory and digestive passages. ... 3. <chemistry> A watery distilled liquor, in distinction from a spirituous liquor. ... 4. Sluggishness of temperament; dullness; want of …

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) ...

phlegmasia cerulea dolens
Thrombosis of the veins of a limb, with sudden severe pain with swelling, cyanosis, and oedema of the part, followed by circulatory collapse and shock. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlegmasia dolens
Synonym for cellulitic phlegmasia ... Inflammatory swelling of the leg, following childbirth, due to septic inflammation of the connective tissue. ... Synonym: phlegmasia dolens. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlegmatic
1. Watery. 'Aqueous and phlegmatic.' ... 2. Abounding in phlegm; as, phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic constitution. ... 3. Generating or causing phlegm. 'Cold and phlegmatic habitations.' ... 4. Not easily excited to action or passion; cold; dull; sluggish; heavy; as, a phlegmatic person. ... <physiology> Phlegmatic temperament, lymphatic temperam …

phlegmon
1. <dermatology> A spreading, diffuse inflammatory reaction to infection with microaerophilic streptococci, which forms a suppurative or gangrenous and undermining lesion that may extend into deep subcutaneous tissues and muscles, creating multiple small pockets of pus. ... Synonym: phlegmonous cellulitis. ... Compare: cellulitis, erysipelas.
phlegmonous
Denoting phlegmon. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlegmonous abscess
Circumscribed suppuration characterised by intense surrounding inflammatory reaction which produces induration and thickening of the affected area. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlegmonous cellulitis
An obsolete term for diffuse phlegmon. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlegmonous enteritis
Severe acute inflammation of the intestine, with edematous bowel wall infiltrated with pus. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlegmonous erysipelas
A form marked by invasion of the subcutaneous tissues, with the formation of deep-seated abscesses. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlegmonous gastritis
<radiology> Aetiology: septicaemia, local abscess, postoperative stomach, complication of gastric ulcer/cancer, organism: streptococcus, symptoms: severe fulminant illness, may vomit pus, location: usually limited to stomach not extending beyond the pylorus, submucosa most severely affected gastric layer, XR: barium dissection into submucosa …

phlegmonous mastitis
Old term for abscess or cellulitis of the breast. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlegmonous ulcer
A ulcer accompanied by inflammation of the neighboring tissues. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phleomycins
<chemical> Water-soluble, copper-containing low molecular weight polypeptides obtained from the culture medium of streptomyces verticillus. They are specific inhibitors of DNA synthesis in bacteria and have been found to act as antitumour agents. They have also been used against rust fungi of plants. ... Pharmacological action: antibiotics, an …

phloem
<plant biology> Tissue forming part of the plant vascular system, responsible for the transport of organic materials, especially sucrose, from the leaves to the rest of the plant. Consists of sieve tubes, companion cells, fibre cells and parenchyma. ... (31 Dec 1997) ...

phlogiston
<chemistry> The hypothetical principle of fire, or inflammability, regarded by Stahl as a chemical element. ... This was supposed to be united with combustible (phlogisticated) bodies and to be separated from incombustible (dephlogisticated) bodies, the phenomena of flame and burning being the escape of phlogiston. Soot and sulphur were regard …

phlogiston theory
Synonym for phlogiston ... <chemistry> The hypothetical principle of fire, or inflammability, regarded by Stahl as a chemical element. ... This was supposed to be united with combustible (phlogisticated) bodies and to be separated from incombustible (dephlogisticated) bodies, the phenomena of flame and burning being the escape of phlogiston. So …

phlogocyte
An obsolete term for one of a number of cells present in the tissues during the course of an inflammation. ... Origin: G. Phlogosis, inflammation, + kytos, a hollow (cell) ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlogocytosis
An obsolete term for a blood state in which there are many phlogocytes in the peripheral circulation. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlogogenic
An obsolete term for exciting inflammation. ... Origin: G. Phlox (phlog-), flame, + -gen, producing ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlogosin
A substance, isolated from cultures of pus-producing cocci, injections of sterilised solutions of which will excite suppuration. ... Origin: G. Phlogosis, inflammation ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlogotherapy
Synonym: non-specific therapy. ... Origin: G. Phlogosis, inflammation, + therapy ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlorhizin
<chemical> Chemical name: 1-Propanone, 1-(2-(beta-D-glucopyranosyloxy)-4,6-dihydroxyphenyl)-3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)- ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

phloridzin
A dihydrochalcone occurring in many parts of the apple tree; used experimentally to produce glycosuria in animals. ... Synonym: phlorizin. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlorizin diabetes
Synonym for phlorizin glycosuria ... The presence of sugar in the urine after the experimental administration of phlorizin, which results in a lower renal threshold for glucose reabsorption of glucose. ... Synonym: phlorizin diabetes. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlorizin glycosuria
The presence of sugar in the urine after the experimental administration of phlorizin, which results in a lower renal threshold for glucose reabsorption of glucose. ... Synonym: phlorizin diabetes. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phloroglucinol
<chemical> 1,3,5-benzenetriol. A trinitrobenzene derivative with antispasmodic properties that is used primarily as a laboratory reagent. ... Pharmacological action: indicators and reagents, parasympatholytics. ... Chemical name: 1,3,5-Benzenetriol ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

phloroglucinol reductase
<enzyme> Catalyses the formation of dihydrophloroglucinol from phloroglucinol in the presence of NADPH; it functions in the pathway of anaerobic degradation of trihydroxybenzenes by catalyzing the reduction of the aromatic nucleus prior to ring fusion ... Registry number: EC 1.3.1.- ... (26 Jun 1999) ...

phloxine
Dichloro-or tetrachlorotetrabromofluorescein;a red acid dye used as a cytoplasmic stain in histology. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlyctena
A small vesicle, especially one of a number of small blisters following a first degree burn. ... Origin: G. Phlyktaina, a blister made by a burn ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlyctenar
Relating to or marked by the presence of phlyctenae. ... Synonym: phlyctenous. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlyctenoid
Resembling a phlyctena. ... Origin: G. Phlyktaina, blister, + eidos, resemblance ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlyctenosis
The occurrence of phlyctenae; a disease marked by a phlyctenar eruption. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlyctenous
Synonym for phlyctenar ... Relating to or marked by the presence of phlyctenae. ... Synonym: phlyctenous. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlyctenula
A small red nodule of lymphoid cells, with ulcerated apex, occurring in the conjunctiva. ... Synonym: phlyctenule. ... Origin: Mod. L. Dim. Of G. Phlyktaina, blister ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlyctenular conjunctivitis
A circumscribed conjunctivitis accompanied by the formation of small red nodules of lymphoid tissue (phlyctenulae) on the conjunctiva. ... Synonym: phlyctenular ophthalmia. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlyctenular keratitis
An inflammation of the corneal conjunctiva with the formation of small red nodules of lymphoid tissue (phlyctenulae) near the corneoscleral limbus. ... Synonym: scrofulous keratitis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlyctenular ophthalmia
Synonym for phlyctenular conjunctivitis ... A circumscribed conjunctivitis accompanied by the formation of small red nodules of lymphoid tissue (phlyctenulae) on the conjunctiva. ... Synonym: phlyctenular ophthalmia. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlyctenular pannus
Pannus occurring in phlyctenular conjunctivitis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlyctenule
Synonym for phlyctenula ... A small red nodule of lymphoid cells, with ulcerated apex, occurring in the conjunctiva. ... Synonym: phlyctenule. ... Origin: Mod. L. Dim. Of G. Phlyktaina, blister ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phlyctenulosis
A nodular hypersensitive affection of corneal and conjunctival epithelium due to endogenous toxin. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

PhNCS
Symbol for phenylisothiocyanate. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

PhNCS protein
Synonym for phenylthiocarbamoyl protein ... Formed by the reaction of phenylisothiocyanate with a terminal alpha-amino group of a peptide or protein ... See: phenylisothiocyanate, phenylthiohydantoin. ... Synonym: PhNCS protein, PTC protein. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phobanthropy
Synonym: anthropophobia. ... Origin: G. Phobos, fear, + anthropos, man ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phobia
<psychology> A persistent, irrational, intense fear of a specific object, activity or situation (the phobic stimulus), fear that is recognised as being excessive or unreasonable by the individual himself. ... When a phobia is a significant source of distress or interferes with social functioning, it is considered a mental disorder, phobic diso …

phobic
Pertaining to or characterised by phobia. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phobic disorders
Anxiety disorders in which the essential feature is persistent and irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that the individual feels compelled to avoid. The individual recognises the fear as excessive or unreasonable. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

phobophobia
<psychology> Morbid dread of developing some phobia. ... Origin: G. Phobos, fear ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phocomelia
A congenital malformation (birth defect) in which the hands and feet are attached to abbreviated arms and legs. The word phocomelia combines phoco- (seal) and melia (limb) to designate a limb like a seal's flipper, one consequence of exposure of the developing foetus to thalidomide. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

phocomelic dwarfism
Dwarfism in which the diaphyses of the long bones are abnormally short or the intermediate parts of the limbs are absent. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phodopus
A genus of hamsters characterised by small size, very short tail, and short, broad feet with hairy soles. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

pholas
<marine biology> Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pholas, or family Pholadidae. They bore holes for themselves in clay, peat, and soft rocks. ... Origin: NL, fr. Gr, a kind of mollusk. ... (19 Mar 1998) ...

pholcodine
3-(2-Morpholinoethyl)morphine;a narcotic with little or no analgesic or euphorigenic activity, used mainly as an antitussive. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

pholedrine
P-[2-(Methylamino)propyl]phenol;a sympathomimetic agent for the treatment of shock; also an adrenergic and vasopressor. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Phoma
A genus of rapidly growing fungi that are common laboratory contaminants and common plant pathogens. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phonacoscope
<instrument> An instrument for increasing the intensity of the percussion note or of the voice sounds, the examiner's ear or the stethoscope being placed on the opposite side of the chest. ... Origin: phon-+ G. Akouo, to listen, + skopeo, to view ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

phonacoscopy
Examination of the chest by means of the phonacoscope. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...