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


postmenopausal atrophy
Atrophy following menopause, as of the genital organs. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postmenopause
The physiological period following the menopause, the permanent cessation of the menstrual life. Since in the united states the age of the menopause ranges between 48 and 55 years, generally conceived as middle age, the postmenopause often refers to women considerably older. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

postminimus
A small accessory appendage attached to the side of the fifth finger or toe; it may resemble a normal digit or be merely a fleshy mass. ... Origin: post-+ L. Minimus, smallest (finger) ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postmitotic phase
Synonym for Gap1 period ... The period of the cell cycle after cell division when there is synthesis of RNA and protein; it may last for a few hours in rapidly growing tissue or a lifetime in non-renewing cells such as nerve cells. ... Synonym: Gap1 phase, postmitotic phase. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postmortem
1. After death; as, postmortem rigidity. Pertaining to or occurring during the period after death. ... 2. Colloquialism for autopsy. Postmortem examination, an examination of the body made after the death of the patient; an autopsy. ... Origin: post-+ L. Acc. Case of mors (mort-), death ... (21 Jun 2000) ...

postmortem changes
Changes that occur in bodies after death. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

postmortem clot
A clot formed in the heart or great vessels after death. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postmortem delivery
Extraction of the foetus after the death of its mother. ... Synonym: perimortem delivery. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postmortem examination
Synonym for autopsy ... <procedure> A surgical procedure, postmortem, which involves the examination of body tissues, often to determine cause of death. ... (02 Jan 1998) ...

postmortem hypostasis
Synonym for postmortem livedo ... A purple colouration of dependent parts, except in areas of contact pressure, appearing within one half to two hours after death, as a result of gravitational movement of blood within the vessels. ... Synonym: postmortem hypostasis, postmortem lividity, postmortem suggillation. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postmortem livedo
A purple colouration of dependent parts, except in areas of contact pressure, appearing within one half to two hours after death, as a result of gravitational movement of blood within the vessels. ... Synonym: postmortem hypostasis, postmortem lividity, postmortem suggillation. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postmortem lividity
Synonym for postmortem livedo ... A purple colouration of dependent parts, except in areas of contact pressure, appearing within one half to two hours after death, as a result of gravitational movement of blood within the vessels. ... Synonym: postmortem hypostasis, postmortem lividity, postmortem suggillation. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postmortem pustule
An obsolete term for an ulcer, usually on the knuckle, resulting from infection during a dissection or the performance of an autopsy. ... Spongiform pustule of Kogoj, an epidermal pustule formed by infiltration of neutrophils into necrotic epidermis in which the cell walls persist as a spongelike network; seen in pustular psoriasis. ... (05 Mar 2000) …

postmortem rigidity
Synonym for rigor mortis ... Muscular rigidity which develops in the cadaver usually from 4 to 10 hours after death and lasts 3 or 4 days. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

postmortem suggillation
Synonym for postmortem livedo ... A purple colouration of dependent parts, except in areas of contact pressure, appearing within one half to two hours after death, as a result of gravitational movement of blood within the vessels. ... Synonym: postmortem hypostasis, postmortem lividity, postmortem suggillation. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postmortem thrombus
A clot formed within the heart or in a blood vessel after death. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postmortem tubercle
postmortem wart ...

postmyocardial infarction syndrome
<syndrome> A complication developing several days to several weeks after myocardial infarction; its clinical features are fever, leukocytosis, chest pain, and evidence of pericarditis, sometimes with pleurisy and pneumonitis, with a strong tendency to recurrence; probably of immunopathogenetic origin. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postnarial
Relating to the posterior nares or choanae. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postnaris
Synonym for choana ... The opening into the nasopharynx of the nasal cavity on either side. ... Synonym: isthmus pharyngonasalis, posterior naris, postnaris. ... Origin: Mod. L. Fr. G. Choane, a funnel ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postnasal
1. Posterior to the nasal cavity. ... 2. Relating to the posterior portion of the nasal cavity. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postnasal drip
Term sometimes used to describe sensation of excessive mucoid or mucopurulent discharge from the posterior nares. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postnatal
<obstetrics> Occurring after birth, with reference to the newborn. ... Compare: postpartum. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

postnatal care
The care provided a woman following the birth of a child. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

postnatal life
That interval of life after birth; in man, usually divided into periods: neonatal, infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postnatal pit of the newborn
Synonym for fovea coccygis ... It marks the site where the embryonic spinal cord attaches to the skin. ... Synonym: postnatal pit of the newborn. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postnecrotic
Subsequent to the death of a tissue or part of the body. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postnecrotic cirrhosis
Post-necrotic cirrhosis, cirrhosis characterised by necrosis involving whole hepatic lobules, with collapse of the reticular framework to form large scars; regeneration nodules are also large; may follow viral or toxic necrosis, or develop as a result of ischemic necrosis. ... Synonym: necrotic cirrhosis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postneuritic
Following neuritis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postnormal occlusion
Synonym for distal occlusion ... A tooth occluding in a position distal to normal. ... Synonym: disto-occlusion, postnormal occlusion, retrusive occlusion. ... Synonym: distoclusion. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postoperative
<surgery> Occurring after a surgical operation. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

postoperative bronchopneumonia
Patchy pneumonia developing in a postoperative patient, usually following surgery to upper abdomen, with restricted diaphragmatic movement due to pain on inspiration, resulting in hypoventilation of the dependent portions of the lungs, with corresponding inadequate movement of secretions, allowing development of infection; likelihood minimised by e …

postoperative care
The period of care beginning when the patient is removed from surgery and aimed at meeting the patient's psychological and physical needs directly after surgery. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

postoperative complications
Disorders affecting patients after surgery. They may or may not be related to the disease for which the surgery was done, and they may or may not be direct results of the surgery. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

postoperative haemorrhage
Haemorrhage following any surgical procedure. It may be immediate or delayed and is not restricted to the surgical wound. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

postoperative parotiditis
An acute inflammation of the parotid gland occurring in the postoperative period, especially in debilitated or dehydrated patients; frequently results in abscess formation and rapidly spreading cellulitis that may become fatal. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postoperative period
The period following a surgical operation. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

postoperative pneumonia
Pneumonia following surgery due to viral or bacterial infection or pulmonary atelectasis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postoperative pressure alopecia
Loss of hair over a circumscribed area usually on the posterior scalp, resulting from continuous pressure on the occiput in a lengthy operative procedure, or unconsciousness following a drug overdose. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postoperative tetany
Parathyroid tetany caused by injury to or excision of the parathyroids during thyroid removal. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postoral arches
The series of branchial arch's caudal to the mouth; the first is the mandibular, the second is the hyoid; caudal to the hyoid, the arch's are unnamed, and designated only by their postoral number. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postpalatal seal
Synonym for posterior palatal seal ... The seal at the posterior border of a denture. ... See: posterior palatal seal area. ... Synonym: palatal seal, post dam, postdam, postpalatal seal. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postpalatal seal area
Synonym for posterior palatal seal area ... The soft tissues along the junction of the hard and soft palates on which pressure within the physiologic limits of the tissues can be applied by a denture to aid in the retention of the denture. ... Synonym: post dam area, postpalatal seal area. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postparalytic
Following or consequent upon paralysis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postpartum
<obstetrics> After childbirth or after delivery. ... Compare: antepartum, intrapartum. ... Origin: L. Partus, birth (noun), fr. Pario, pp. Partus, to bring forth ... (21 Jun 2000) ...

postpartum alopecia
<dermatology, obstetrics> Temporary diffuse telogen loss of scalp hair at the termination of pregnancy. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postpartum amenorrhoea
<obstetrics> Permanent amenorrhoea following childbirth, sometimes due to pituitary failure resulting from postpartum haemorrhage and consequent necrosis of the pituitary (Simmonds' disease). ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postpartum cardiomyopathy
<cardiology, obstetrics> Cardiomegaly and congestive heart failure developing in the puerperium in the absence of any of the known causes of heart disease. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postpartum estrus
<veterinary> Estrus with ovulation and corpus luteum production which occurs in some animals (e.g., the fur seal) immediately following the birth of the young. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postpartum haemorrhage
<obstetrics> Haemorrhage occurring soon after labour or childbirth. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

postpartum hypertension
<obstetrics> Increased blood pressure immediately following the completion of labour. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postpartum psychosis
<obstetrics, psychiatry> An acute mental disorder with depression in the mother following childbirth. ... Synonym: puerperal psychosis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postpartum tetanus
Synonym for puerperal tetanus ... Tetanus occurring during the puerperium from infection of the obstetric wound. ... Synonym: postpartum tetanus, uterine tetanus. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postparturient haemoglobinuria
<haematology, obstetrics> A sudden, severe haemolytic disease that appears sporadically in well nourished dairy cows 2 to 4 weeks after calving, and usually occurs in stabled animals in the winter and early spring; the cause is not known, although the disease is often associated with hypophosphatemia. ... Synonym: puerperal haemoglobinaemia, p …

postperfusion lung
<cardiology, chest medicine> A condition in which abnormal pulmonary function develops in patients who have undergone cardiac surgery involving the use of an extracorporeal circulation; now rare due to advances in perfusion technique and equipment. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postpericardiotomy pericarditis
<cardiology> A syndrome characterised by fever, substernal chest pain, and pericardial rub following cardiac surgery. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postpericardiotomy syndrome
<syndrome> A febrile illness associated with pericardial and sometimes pleuropulmonary reaction that often follows extensive pericardiotomy. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

postpharyngeal
Posterior to the pharynx. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postpharyngeal space
Synonym for retropharyngeal space ... That part of the peripharyngeal spatium located posterior to the pharynx. In the normal adult it measures 4 mm (at C3 level), but is considered abnormal when greater than 7 mm. ... Can be icreased with a cervical spine fracture, retropharyngeal abscess. ... Synonym: spatium retropharyngeum, postpharyngeal space.
postphlebitic syndrome
<syndrome> Post-thrombotic complications, including destruction of the valves of the deep veins and communication veins of the leg, and obliteration of the thrombosed veins rather than recanalization, resulting in chronic venous insufficiency, marked by oedema, stasis dermatitis, and ulceration of the leg. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

postpneumonic
Following or occurring as a sequel to pneumonia. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postpoliomyelitis syndrome
<syndrome> A 'postpolio' syndrome characterised by new neuromuscular symptoms, including muscle weakness, that develops years after recovery from poliomyelitis. The symptoms may vary from simple nonprogressive deterioration of function, with joint pain, fatigue, and subsequent stabilization, to atypical forms of spinal muscular dystrophy. The …

postprandial
Occurring after dinner or after a meal, postcibal. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

postprandial lipaemia
Synonym for alimentary lipaemia ... Relatively transient lipaemia occurring after the ingestion of foods with a large content of fat. ... Synonym: postprandial lipaemia. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postprandial pain
Pain occurring after eating, typical of malignancy in oesophagus or stomach. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postprandial period
Occurring after dinner, or after a meal. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

postprimary tuberculosis
Synonym for secondary tuberculosis ... Tuberculosis found in adults and characterised by lesions near the apex of an upper lobe, which may cavitate or heal with scarring without spreading to lymph nodes; theoretically, secondary tuberculosis may be due to exogenous reinfection or to reactivation of a dormant endogenous infection. ... Synonym: adult t …

postpubertal
Synonym for postpubescent ... Subsequent to the period of puberty. ... Synonym: postpuberal, postpubertal. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postpuberty
The period after puberty. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postpubescent
Subsequent to the period of puberty. ... Synonym: postpuberal, postpubertal. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postpyknotic
Following the stage of pyknosis in a red cell, denoting the disappearance of the nucleus (chromatolysis). ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postpyloric sphincter
The duodenal portion of the sphincter or closing mechanism of the gastroduodenal pylorus. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postpyramidal fissure
A fissure that separates the pyramid of the cerebellum from the tuber. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postreduction phase
Synonym for postmeiotic phase ... The stage following that of reduction of the chromosomes in the sexual cells, representing the mature forms of these cells, ending with the conjugation of the nuclei in the impregnated ovum. ... Synonym: postreduction phase. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postremission therapy
Chemotherapy to kill leukaemia cells that survive after remission induction therapy. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

postrenal albuminuria
Albuminuria caused by disease distal to the kidney. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postrhinal fissure
A fissure separating the hippocampal from the collateral gyrus. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postrolandic
Behind the fissure of Rolando, or central sulcus. ... See: postcentral. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postrubella syndrome
<syndrome> A group of congenital defects resulting from maternal rubella during the first trimester of pregnancy and including microphthalmos, cataracts, deafness, mental retardation, patent ductus arteriosus, and pulmonary artery stenosis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postsacral
Referring to the coccyx. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postscarlatinal
Occurring as a sequel to scarlatina. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postscript
A paragraph added to a letter after it is concluded and signed by the writer; an addition made to a book or composition after the main body of the work has been finished, containing something omitted, or something new occurring to the writer. [Abbrev. P. S. ... Origin: L. Postscriptus, (assumed) p. P. Of postscribere to write after; post after + scr …

postsphenoid bone
The posterior portion of the body of the sphenoid bone. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postsphygmic
Occurring after the pulse wave. ... Origin: G. Sphygmos, pulse ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postsplenic
Posterior to the spleen. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

poststationary phase
The period in the growth of a bacterial culture in which growth is declining. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

poststeroid panniculitis
Subcutaneous nodules developing in children within a month after withdrawal of corticosteroids given to treat the nephrotic syndrome or rheumatic fever; microscopically identical to subcutaneous fat necrosis of the newborn, the condition resolves spontaneously or with steroid readministration. ... Relapsing febrile nodular nonsuppurative panniculiti …

postsulcal part of tongue
See: dorsum of tongue. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postsynaptic
Pertaining to the area on the distal side of a synaptic cleft. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postsynaptic cell
In a chemical synapse, the cell that receives a signal (binds neurotransmitter) from the presynaptic cell and responds with depolarisation In an electrical synapse, the postsynaptic cell would just be downstream, but since many electrical synapses are rectifying, one of the two cells involved will always be postsynaptic. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

postsynaptic membrane
That part of the plasma membrane of a neuron or muscle fibre with which an axon terminal forms a synaptic junction; in many instances, at least part of such a small postsynaptic membrane patch shows characteristic morphological modifications such as greater thickness and higher electron-density, believed to correspond to the transmitter-sensitive r …

postsynaptic potential
In a synapse, a change in the resting potential of a postsynaptic cell following stimulation of the presynaptic cell. For example: in a cholinergic synapse, the release of acetylcholine from the presynaptic cell causes channels to open in the postsynaptic cell. Each channel opening causes a small depolarisation, known as a miniature end plate poten …

posttarsal
Relating to the posterior portion of the tarsus. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

posttecta
Aboral to the hidden part of the duodenum. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

postterior
1. Later in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; opposed to prior. 'Hesiod was posterior to Homer.' (Broome) ... 2. Situated behind; hinder; opposed to anterior. ... 3. <anatomy> at or toward the caudal extremity; caudal; in human anatomy often used for dorsal. ... 4. <botany> On the side next the axis of …

postthetomy
Synonym for circumcision ... <procedure, surgery> The surgical removal of end of the prepuce of the penis. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...

postthrombotic syndrome
<syndrome> A syndrome that follows a vascular thrombosis. Term is usually used to indicate difficulties, such as persistent oedema, following venous thrombosis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

posttibial
Posterior to the tibia; situated in the posterior portion of the leg. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

posttranscriptional
Referring to events that occur after transcription. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

posttranslational
Referring to events that occur after translation. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...