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

sample size
The number of units (persons, animals, patients, specified circumstances, etc.) in a population to be studied. The sample size should be big enough to have a high likelihood of detecting a true difference between two groups. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

sample, random
A group selected randomly, solely by chance. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

sampling
The policy of inferring the behaviour of a whole batch by studying a fraction of it. ... Origin: MF essample, from L. Exemplum, taking out ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sampling studies
Studies in which a number of subjects are selected from all subjects in a defined population. Conclusions based on sample results may be attributed only to the population sampled. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

samson
An Israelite of Bible record (see), distinguished for his great strength; hence, a man of extraordinary physical strength. Samson post. ... A strong post resting on the keelson, and supporting a beam of the keelson, and supporting a beam of the deck; also, a temporary or movable pilar carrying a leading block or pulley for various purposes. In deepw …

Samter's syndrome
<syndrome> A triad of asthma, nasal polyps, and aspirin intolerance. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

San Joaquin fever
<infectious disease> A fungal infection caused by the fungus Coccidioides immitis. Exists in two forms: primary disease, which is a self-limited respiratory infection (requires no treatment) and a progressive form (diffuse and granulomatous), that can involve almost any part of the body. Approximately 60% of infections cause no symptoms and a …

San Joaquin Valley disease
Synonym for primary coccidioidomycosis ... A disease common in the San Joaquin Valley of California and certain additional areas in the southwestern U.S. As well as the Chaco region of Argentina, caused by inhalation of the arthroconidia of Coccidioides immitis; acute onset of symptoms resemble pneumonia or pulmonary tuberculosis, productive of sput …

San Joaquin Valley fever
Synonym for primary coccidioidomycosis ... A disease common in the San Joaquin Valley of California and certain additional areas in the southwestern U.S. As well as the Chaco region of Argentina, caused by inhalation of the arthroconidia of Coccidioides immitis; acute onset of symptoms resemble pneumonia or pulmonary tuberculosis, productive of sput …

San Jose
See: Maldonado-San Jose stain. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

San Miguel sea lion virus
A calicivirus, family Caliciviridae, first isolated from sea lions on San Miguel island off the California coast, which is indistinguishable from the vesicular exanthema of swine virus both biophysically and clinically in terms of the vesicular disease syndrome that it produces in swine. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Sanarelli phenomenon
Synonym for generalised Shwartzman phenomenon ... When both the primary injection of endotoxin-containing filtrate and the secondary injection are given intravenously 24 hours apart, the animal usually dies within 24 hours after the second inoculation; the characteristic lesions in the rabbit include widespread haemorrhages in the lung, liver, and o …

Sanarelli-Shwartzman phenomenon
Synonym for generalised Shwartzman phenomenon ... When both the primary injection of endotoxin-containing filtrate and the secondary injection are given intravenously 24 hours apart, the animal usually dies within 24 hours after the second inoculation; the characteristic lesions in the rabbit include widespread haemorrhages in the lung, liver, and o …

Sanarelli, Giuseppe
<person> Italian bacteriologist, 1864-1940. ... See: Sanarelli phenomenon, Sanarelli-Shwartzman phenomenon. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sanative
Having a tendency to heal. ... Origin: L. Sano, to cure, heal ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sanatorium
An institution for the treatment of chronic disorders and a place for recuperation under medical supervision. ... Compare: sanitarium. ... Origin: Mod. L. Neuter of sanatorius, curative, fr. Sano, to cure, heal ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sanatory
Health-giving; conducive to health. ... Origin: Mod. L. Sanatorius ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Sanchez Salorio syndrome
<syndrome> A syndrome characterised by retinal pigmentary dystrophy, cataract, hypotrichosis of the lashes, mental deficiencies, and retarded somatic development. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Sanchez Salorio, Manuel
<person> Spanish ophthalmologist, *1930. ... See: Sanchez Salorio syndrome. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sanctification
1. The act of sanctifying or making holy; the being sanctified or made holy; especially. ... The act of God's grace by which the affections of men are purified, or alienated from sin and the world, and exalted to, a supreme love to God; also, the state of being thus purified or sanctified. 'God hath from the baginning chosen you to salvation through …

sanctus
1. A part of the Mass, or, in Protestant churches, a part of the communion service, of which the first words in Latin are Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus [Holy, holy, holy]; called also Tersanctus. ... 2. An anthem composed for these words. Sanctus bell, a small bell usually suspended in a bell cot at the apex of the nave roof, over the chancel arch, in m …

sand
Particles in siliciclastic sediment that range in size from 0.0625 millimetres (very fine-grained sand) to 2.0 millimetres (very coarse-grained sand), according to the Udden-Wentworth scale. In field geology, to tell the difference between fine-grained sand and coarse silt, the particle in a rock is sand if it can be clearly seen with the naked eye …

sand bath
In chemistry, an arrangement whereby a substance to be treated is in a vessel protected from the direct action of fire by a layer of sand. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sand bodies
Synonym for psammoma bodies ... Mineralised body's occurring in the meninges, choroid plexus, and in certain meningiomas; composed usually of a central capillary surrounded by concentric whorls of meningocytes in various stages of hyaline change and mineralization; can also occur in benign and malignant epithelial tumours (often papillary) or with c …

sand tumour
Synonym for psammomatous meningioma ... <tumour> A firm cellular neoplasm derived from fibrous tissue of the meninges, choroid plexus, and certain other structures associated with the brain, characterised by the formation of multiple, discrete, concentrically laminated, calcareous bodies (psammoma bodies); most of these neoplasms are histologi …

sand-crack
A crack or fissure in the hoof of the horse, occurring usually on the inside of the forefoot (quarter-crack) or in the forepart of the hindfoot (toe-crack); when the crack is deep enough to expose the sensitive laminae, or when it extends to the coronary band, lameness results. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sandal foot
A wide space between the first and second toes seen in Down's syndrome. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sandal strap dermatitis
Allergic contact on the dorsal surfaces of the feet, caused by synthetic rubber sandal straps or additives to natural rubber. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sandalwood
Origin: F. Sandal, santal, fr. Ar. ... Candal, or Gr. Santalon; both ultimately fr. Skr. Candana. Cf. Sanders. ... <botany> The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree (Santalum album), and of several other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian Santalum Freycinetianum and S. Pyrularium, the Australian S. Lat …

sandalwood oil
Synonym for santal oil ... A volatile oil distilled from the wood of Santalum album (family Santalaceae), a tree of India; formerly used in subacute bronchitis and in gonorrhoea. ... Synonym: sandalwood oil. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sandfly
A small, biting, dipterous midge of the genus Phlebotomus or Lutzomyia; a vector of leishmaniasis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sandfly fever
Synonym for 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) ...

sandfly fever group viruses
A group of viruses in the genus phlebovirus of the family bunyaviridae transmitted by the sandfly, phlebotomus papatasii, and causing a short febrile illness in humans. The sandfly fever sicilian virus, the type species of the phlebovirus genus, is not part of this group. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

sandfly fever viruses
Synonym for 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 …

sandhoff disease
A variant of tay-sachs disease. It is caused by a deficiency of hexosaminidases a & b inherited as an autosomal recessive trait, leading to accumulation of g(m2) ganglioside and the sphingolipid globoside in neurons. The diseases manifests clinically as psychomotor retardation and deterioration, blindness, cherry red spot in the macula, hepatos …

Sandhoff, K
<person> Contemporary German biochemist. ... See: Sandhoff's disease. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Sandhoff's disease
An infantile form of GM2 gangliosidosis characterised by a defect in the production of hexosaminidases A and B; it resembles Tay-Sachs disease, but occurs predominantly (if not entirely) in non-Jewish children; accumulation of glucoside and ganglioside Gm2. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

SanDI endonuclease
<enzyme> A type-ii restriction endonuclease; isolated from streptomyces; recognises the internally degenerate heptanucleotide sequence 5'-gggwccc-3' ... Registry number: EC 3.1.21.- ... Synonym: sandi enase ... (26 Jun 1999) ...

sandifer syndrome
<radiology> Seen in infants, torsion spasms of head and neck, occasionally of upper torso, associated with rumination syndrome, regurgitation and re-chewing, secondary to hiatus hernia ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

Sandison-Clark chamber
A chamber that can be fitted over a hole punched in a rabbit's ear, so that tissue will grow to fill the defect between two transparent plates; if the distance between the plates is small, the living tissue can be studied microscopically. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Sandison, J Calvin
<person> U.S. Surgeon, *1899. ... See: Sandison-Clark chamber. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sandpaper disks
Disk's of paper coated with various grits of silica; used to abrade or smooth the surface of teeth or dental materials. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sandpaper gallbladder
A roughened condition of the mucous membrane of the gallbladder, associated usually with the presence of gallstones. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sandpiper
1. <ornithology> Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringidae. ... The most important North American species are the pestoral sandpiper (Tringa maculata), called also browback, grass snipe, and jacksnipe; the red-backed, or black-breaste …

sandstone
A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand. ... Different names are aplied to the various kinds of sandstone according to their composition; as, granitic, argillaceous, micaceous, etc. ... <chemical> Flexible sandstone, the finer-grained variety of itacolumite, which on account o …

Sandstrom, I
<person> Swedish anatomist, 1852-1889. ... See: Sandstrom's bodies. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Sandstrom's bodies
See: parathyroid gland. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sandwich sign
<radiology> Ultrasound: hypoechoic solid mass, around central linear hyperechoic area, CT: soft-tissue density surrounding bowel, most likely to be lymphomatous involvement of mesentery ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

sandworm disease
An inflammatory eruption on the inner side of the sole, observed in certain parts of Australia, marked by a patch of erythema spreading in spirals, and disappearing spontaneously; probably a form of creeping eruption similar to larva migrans. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sane
Denoting sanity. ... Origin: L. Sanus ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Sanfilippo, Sylvester
<person> 20th century U.S. Paediatrician. ... See: Sanfilippo's syndrome. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Sanfilippo's syndrome
<syndrome> An error of the mucopolysaccharide metabolism, with excretion of large amounts of heparan sulfate in the urine and severe mental retardation with hepatomegaly; skeleton may be normal or may present mild changes similar to those in Hurler's syndrome; several different types (A, B, C, and D) have been identified according to the enzy …

Sanfillipo syndrome
<syndrome> Lysosomal disease in which either keratan sulphate sulphatase or N acetyl _ D glucosaminidase is defective: cross correction (complementation) of co cultured fibroblasts from apparently clinically identical patients can therefore occur if a different enzyme is missing in each. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

Sanger Coulson method
Synonym for dideoxy sequencing ... The most popular method of DNA sequence determination (c.f. Maxam Gilbert sequencing). Starting with single stranded template DNA, a short complementary primer is annealed and extended by a DNA polymerase. The reaction is split into 4 tubes (called A, C, G or T) each containing a low concentration of the indicated …

Sanger method
The method for the sequencing of DNA employing an enzyme that can polymerase DNA and labelled nucleotides. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Sanger, Frederick
<person> English biochemist and twice Nobel laureate, *1918. ... See: Sanger's reagent, Sanger method. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Sanger's reagent
Synonym for fluoro-2,4-dinitrobenzene ... A reagent used to combine with the free NH2 group of the NH2-terminal amino acid residue in a peptide, thus marking this residue; the combined forms are known as DNP-proteins, Dnp-aminoacyl, etc., the fluorine having been replaced to leave a dinitrophenyl residue (DNP, Dnp, or N2Ph-) attached to the NH2 grou …

sangui-
Blood, bloody. ... Origin: G. Sanguis ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sanguifacient
Synonym: haemopoietic. ... Origin: sangui-+ L. Facio, to make ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sanguinaria
1. <botany> A genus of plants of the Poppy family. ... Sanguinaria Canadensis, or bloodroot, is the only species. It has a perennial rootstock, which sends up a few roundish lobed leaves and solitary white blossoms in early spring. See Bloodroot. ... 2. The rootstock of the bloodroot, used in medicine as an emetic, etc. ... Origin: NL. See Sangu …

sanguinarine
An alkaloid obtained from the bloodroot plant, Sanguinaria canadensis, used to treat and remove dental plaque. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sanguinary
1. Attended with much bloodshed; bloody; murderous; as, a sanguinary war, contest, or battle. 'We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences.' (Bacon) ... 2. Bloodthirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood. 'Passion . . . Makes us brutal and sanguinary.' (Broome) ... Origin: L. Sanguinarius, fr. Sanguis blood: cf. …

sanguine
1. Having the colour of blood; red. 'Of his complexion he was sanguine.' (Chaucer) 'Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe.' (Milton) ... 2. Characterised by abundance and active circulation of blood; as, a sanguine bodily temperament. ... 3. Warm; ardent; as, a sanguine temper. ... 4. Anticipating the best; not desponding; confident; full of …

sanguineous cyst
Synonym for haemorrhagic cyst ... A cyst containing blood or resulting from the encapsulation of a haematoma. ... Synonym: blood cyst, haematocele, haematocyst, sanguineous cyst. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sanguinopurulent
Denoting exudate or matter containing blood and pus. ... Origin: sanguino-+ L. Purulentus, festering (suppurative), fr. Pus, pus ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Sanguisuga
Former name for Hirudo. ... Origin: L. A leech, fr. Sanguis, blood, + sugo, pp. Suctus, to suck ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

saniopurulent
Characterised by bloody pus. ... Origin: L. Sanies, thin, bloody matter, + purulentus, festering (suppurative), fr. Pus, pus ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sanioserous
Characterised by blood-tinged serum. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sanious pus
Ichorous pus stained with blood. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sanitarian
One who is skilled in sanitation and public health. ... Origin: L. Sanitas, health, fr. Sanus, sound ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sanitarium
A health resort. ... Compare: sanatorium. ... Synonym: salutarium. ... Origin: L. Sanitas, health ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sanitary
Healthful; conducive to health; usually in reference to a clean environment. ... Origin: L. Sanitus, health ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sanitary engineering
A branch of engineering concerned with the design, construction, and maintenance of environmental facilities conducive to public health, such as water supply and waste disposal. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

sanitation
The development and establishment of environmental conditions favourable to the health of the public. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

sanitisation
<dentistry> A cleaning process which reduces germs to a safe level. ... (08 Jan 1998) ...

sanitization
<dentistry> A cleaning process which reduces germs to a safe level. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sanity
Soundness of mind, emotions, and behaviour; of a sound degree of mental health. ... Origin: L. Sanitas, health ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sannamycin B glycyltransferase
<enzyme> Catalyses glycylation of sannamycin b to sannamycin a, the active cpd in streptomyces sannanensis ifo 14239 ... Registry number: EC 2.3.2.- ... (26 Jun 1999) ...

Sansom, Arthur
<person> English physician, 1838-1907. ... See: Sansom's sign. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Sansom's sign
<clinical sign> In mitral stenosis, apparent duplication of the second heart sound. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Sanson, Louis
<person> French physician, 1790-1841. ... See: Sanson's images, Purkinje-Sanson images. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Sanson's images
Synonym for Purkinje-Sanson images ... <ophthalmology, physiology> The two images formed by the anterior and posterior surfaces of the cornea and the two images formed by the anterior and posterior surfaces of the lens. ... Synonym: catatropic image, Purkinje images, Sanson's images. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

santal oil
A volatile oil distilled from the wood of Santalum album (family Santalaceae), a tree of India; formerly used in subacute bronchitis and in gonorrhoea. ... Synonym: sandalwood oil. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Santini's booming sound
A sonorous booming sound heard on auscultatory percussion of a hydatid cyst. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

santonin
<chemistry> A white crystalline substance having a bitter taste, extracted from the buds of levant wormseed and used as an anthelmintic. It occassions a peculiar temporary colour blindness, causing objects to appear as if seen through a yellow glass. ... Origin: L. Herba santonica, a kind of plant, fr. Santoni a people of Aquitania; cf. Gr., c …

Santorini
Giandomenico (Giovanni Domenico), Italian anatomist, 1681-1737. ... See: Santorini's canal, Santorini's cartilage, Santorini's major caruncle, Santorini's minor caruncle, Santorini's concha, Santorini's duct, Santorini's fissures, Santorini's incisures, Santorini's labyrinth, Santorini's muscle, Santorini's tubercle, Santorini's vein, incisurae sant …

Santorini's canal
Synonym for accessory pancreatic duct ... The excretory duct of the head of the pancreas, one branch of which joins the pancreatic duct, the other opening independently into the duodenum at the lesser duodenal papilla. ... Synonym: ductus pancreaticus accessorius, Bernard's canal, Bernard's duct, ductus dorsopancreaticus, Santorini's canal, Santorini …

Santorini's cartilage
Synonym for corniculate cartilage ... A conical nodule of elastic cartilage surmounting the apex of each arytenoid cartilage. ... Synonym: cartilago corniculata, corniculum laryngis, Santorini's cartilage, supra-arytenoid cartilage. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Santorini's concha
Synonym for supreme nasal concha ... A small concha frequently present on the posterosuperior part of the lateral nasal wall; it overlies the supreme nasal meatus. ... Synonym: concha nasalis suprema, fourth turbinated bone, highest concha, highest turbinated bone, Santorini's concha, concha santorini, supraturbinal, supreme concha, supreme turbinate …

Santorini's duct
Synonym for accessory pancreatic duct ... The excretory duct of the head of the pancreas, one branch of which joins the pancreatic duct, the other opening independently into the duodenum at the lesser duodenal papilla. ... Synonym: ductus pancreaticus accessorius, Bernard's canal, Bernard's duct, ductus dorsopancreaticus, Santorini's canal, Santorini …

Santorini's fissures
Synonym for notches in cartilage of external acoustic meatus ... (usually) two vertical fissures in the anterior portion of the cartilage of the external auditory meatus, filled by fibrous tissue. ... Synonym: incisurae cartilaginis meatus acustici externi, Duverney's fissures, incisurae santorini, Santorini's fissures, Santorini's incisures. ... (05 …

Santorini's incisures
Synonym for notches in cartilage of external acoustic meatus ... (usually) two vertical fissures in the anterior portion of the cartilage of the external auditory meatus, filled by fibrous tissue. ... Synonym: incisurae cartilaginis meatus acustici externi, Duverney's fissures, incisurae santorini, Santorini's fissures, Santorini's incisures. ... (05 …

Santorini's labyrinth
Synonym for prostatic venous plexus ... A venous plexus, arising chiefly from the dorsal vein of the penis, situated below the base of the bladder at the sides of the prostate. ... See: prostaticovesical plexus. ... Synonym: plexus venosus prostaticus, plexus pudendalis, Santorini's labyrinth. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Santorini's major caruncle
Synonym for major duodenal papilla ... Point of opening of the common bile duct and pancreatic duct into the duodenum; it is located posteriorly in the descending part of the duodenum. ... Synonym: papilla duodeni major, bile papilla, papilla of Vater, Santorini's major caruncle. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Santorini's minor caruncle
Synonym for minor duodenal papilla ... The site of the opening of the accessory pancreatic duct into the duodenum, located anterior to and slightly superior to the major papilla. ... Synonym: papilla duodeni minor, Santorini's minor caruncle. ... Nerve papilla, one of the papillae in the dermis containing a tactile corpuscle or other form of end organ …

Santorini's muscle
Synonym for risorius ... <anatomy, muscle> Origin, from platysma and fascia of masseter; insertion, orbicularis oris and skin at corner of mouth; action, draws angle of mouth laterally, lenghthening rima oris; nerve supply, facial. ... Synonym: musculus risorius, Albinus' muscle, Santorini's muscle. ... Origin: L. Risor, a laughter, fr. Rideo, p …

Santorini's plexus
Venous plexus on ventral and lateral prostatic surfaces. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Santorini's tubercle
Synonym for corniculate tubercle ... A rounded eminence on the posterior part of the aryepiglottic fold, formed by the underlying corniculate cartilages. ... Synonym: tuberculum corniculatum, Santorini's tubercle. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Santorini's vein
Synonym for parietal emissary vein ... <anatomy, vein> The vein that connects the superior sagittal sinus with the tributaries of the superficial temporal vein and other veins of the scalp. ... Synonym: vena emissaria parietalis, emissarium parietale, Santorini's vein. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Sao Paulo fever
Synonym for rocky mountain spotted fever ... <infectious disease> An acute febrile (feverish) disease initially recognised in the Rocky Mountain states, caused by Rickettsia rickettsii transmitted by hard-shelled (ixodid) ticks. Occurs only in the Western Hemisphere. ... The disease is characterised by sudden onset of headache, chills and fever …