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

serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase
<enzyme> An enzyme that is found primarily in the liver. It is released into the bloodstream as the result of liver damage. Also called the alanine aminotransferase (ALT) or serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase (SGPT). ... (27 Sep 1997) ...

serum glutamic-pyruvic transaminase
Synonym for alanine aminotransferase ... <enzyme> An enzyme that is found primarily in the liver. It is released into the bloodstream as the result of liver damage. Also called the alanine aminotransferase (ALT) or serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase (SGPT). ... (27 Sep 1997) ...

serum hepatitis
Synonym for hepatitis B ... <virology> A form of viral hepatitis, known as serum hepatitis, because it is commonly spread through contact with infected blood products (transfusion). May also be spread sexually or from mother to infant. Hepatitis B can cause a much more severe infection than hepatitis A and can occur as an asymptomatic carrier …

serum hepatitis virus
Synonym for hepatitis b virus ... The type species of the genus orthohepadnavirus which causes human hepatitis b and is also apparently a causal agent in human hepatocellular carcinoma. The dane particle is an intact hepatitis virion, named after its discoverer. Non-infectious spherical and tubular particles are also seen in the serum. ... (12 Dec 19 …

serum iron level
A test that measures the amount of iron (Fe ++) in the blood. The test is performed when iron deficiency is suspected. Normal serum iron is 60 to 170 mcg/dl. Increased levels may be seen in the following: haemochromatosis, haemolysis, haemolytic anaemia, hepatitis, liver necrosis, haemosiderosis, iron poisoning and lead toxicity. Lower than normal …

serum lactis
Synonym for whey ... <biology> The fluid protion of milk that separates from curd. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

serum nephritis
Glomerulonephritis occurring in serum sickness or in animals injected with foreign serum protein. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

serum proteins
Synonym for plasma proteins ... Dissolved protein's (more than 100) of blood plasma, mainly albumins and globulins (normally 6 to 8 g/100 ml); they hold fluid in blood vessels by osmosis and include antibodies and blood-clotting protein's. ... Synonym: serum proteins. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

serum reaction
Synonym for serum sickness ... A hypersensitivity response (type III) to the injection of large amounts of antigen, as might happen when large amounts of antiserum are given in a passive immunisation. The effects are caused by the presence of soluble immune complexes in the tissues. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

serum requirement
The amount of serum that must be added to culture medium to permit growth of an animal cell in culture. Transformed cells frequently have less stringent serum requirements than their normal counterparts. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

serum response element
Dyad symmetry element bound by serum response factor to control the expression of c fos. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

serum response factor
Transcription factor that binds to the serum response element upstream of the site of transcription initiation of genes such as c fos. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

serum shock
Anaphylactic or anaphylactoid shock caused by the injection of antitoxic or other foreign serum. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

serum sickness
A hypersensitivity response (type III) to the injection of large amounts of antigen, as might happen when large amounts of antiserum are given in a passive immunisation. The effects are caused by the presence of soluble immune complexes in the tissues. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

serum therapy
Synonym for serotherapy ... Treatment of an infectious disease by injection of an antitoxin or serum containing specific antibody. ... Synonym: serum therapy. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

serum TIBC
Synonym for total iron binding capacity ... <biochemistry, haematology> A test that measures indirectly the transferrin level in the bloodstream. ... Transferrin is a protein that carries iron in the body. Normal values are 240 to 450 mcg/dl. This test is used to evaluate anaemia. Greater than normal total iron binding capacity can be seen in: …

serum transferrin
<protein> A protein that carries iron in the bloodstream. The percentage of transferrin that has iron bound to it is increased in situations of iron overdose and in the disease haemochromatosis. Serum transferrin is decreased in cases of protein deficiency. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...

serum-fast
1. Pertaining to a serum in which there is little or no change in the titre of antibody, even under conditions of treatment or immunologic stimulation. ... 2. Resistant to the destructive effect of sera. ... Synonym: serofast. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

serumal
Relating to or derived from serum. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

serumal calculus
A greenish or dark brown calcareous deposit on the tooth, usually apical to the gingival margin. ... Synonym: haematogenetic calculus. ... Synonym: subgingival calculus. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

servation
The use or function of an organ. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

serve
1. To work for; to labour in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, as an inferior, domestic, serf, slave, hired assistant, official helper, etc.; specifically, in a religious sense, to obey and worship. 'God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit.' (Rom. I. 9) …

Servetus
(ServetServide) ... Miguel, Spanish anatomist and theologian, 1511-1553. ... See: Servetus' circulation. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Servetus' circulation
An obsolete eponym for the pulmonary circulation. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

service
<botany> A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus, as Pyrus domestica and P. Torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small, edible, applelike berries. ... <botany> Service berry, the fruit of any kind of servi …

servile
1. Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience. 'She must bend the servile knee.' (Thomson) 'Fearing dying pays death servile breath.' (Shak) ... 2. Held in subjection; dependent; e …

servitude
1. The state of voluntary or compulsory subjection to a master; the condition of being bound to service; the condition of a slave; slavery; bondage; hence, a state of slavish dependence. 'You would have sold your king to slaughter, His princes and his peers to servitude.' (Shak) 'A splendid servitude; . . . For he that rises up early, and goe to be …

servomechanism
1. A control system using negative feedback to operate another system. ... 2. A process that behaves as a self-regulatory device; e.g., the reaction of the pupil to light. ... Origin: L. Servus, servant, + G. Mechane, contrivance ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

seryl
A radical of serine. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

seryl-tRNA-ATP phosphotransferase
<enzyme> Produces phosphoseryl tRNA; plays suppressor role in in vitro globin synthesis ... Registry number: EC 2.7.1.- ... Synonym: ser-tRNA ptase, seryl tRNA kinase ... (26 Jun 1999) ...

sesame
<botany> Either of two annual herbaceous plants of the genus Sesamum (S. Indicum, and S. Orientale), from the seeds of which an oil is expressed; also, the small obovate, flattish seeds of these plants, sometimes used as food. See Benne. Open Sesame, the magical command which opened the door of the robber's den in the Arabian Nights' tale of …

sesame oil
<chemical> The refined fixed oil obtained from the seed of one or more cultivated varieties of sesamum indicum. It is used as a solvent and oleaginous vehicle for drugs and has been used internally as a laxative and externally as a skin softener. It is used also in the manufacture of margarine, soap, and cosmetics. ... Chemical name: Fats and …

sesamoid
1. Resembling in shape the seeds of sesame. ... 2. <anatomy> Of or pertaining to the sesamoid bones or cartilages; sesamoidal. ... <anatomy> Sesamoid bones, Sesamoid cartilages, small bones or cartilages formed in tendons, like the patella and pisiform in man. ... Origin: Gr. Like sesame; sesame + form: cf. F. Sesamoide. ... <anatomy> …

sesamoid bone
A bone formed in a tendon where it passes over a joint. ... Synonym: os sesamoideum. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sesamoid cartilage of larynx
A small nodule of elastic cartilage sometimes present on the lateral border of the arytenoid cartilage. ... Synonym: cartilago sesamoidea laryngis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sesamoiditis
Inflammation of the proximal sesamoid bones in the horse. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sesqui-
<chemistry, prefix> A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting that three atoms or equivalents of the substance to the name of which it is prefixed are combined with two of some other element or radical; as, sesquibromide, sesquicarbonate, sesquichloride, sesquioxide. ... Sesquidupli- is sometimes, but rarely, used in the same manner to …

sesquihydrates
Compounds crystallizing with (nominally) 1.5 molecules of water. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sesquiplicate
<mathematics> Subduplicate of the triplicate; a term applied to ratios; thus, a and a' are in the sesquiplicate ratio of b and b', when a is to a' as the square root of the cube of b is to the square root of the cube of b', or a:a'::(b^3:(b'^3. 'The periodic times of the planets are in the sesquiplicate ratio of their mean distances.' (Sir I. …

sesquiterpenes
Compounds formed from three isoprene units; may be acyclic, mono-, di-, or tricyclic; synthesised from farnesylpyrophosphate (e.g., trichothecin, nicin). ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sessile
Attached by a base rather than a stalk, a sessile lesion adheres closely to the surface (mucosa). ... (27 Sep 1997) ...

sessile hydatid
Synonym for testicular appendage ... A vesicular nonpedunculated structure attached to the cephalic pole of the testis; a vestige of the cephalic end of the paramesonephric (mullerian) duct. ... Synonym: appendix testis, appendix of the testis, nonpedunculated hydatid, ovarium masculinum, sessile hydatid. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sessile polyp
Any form of polyp that has a relatively broad base. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sesterce
A Roman coin or denomination of money, in value the fourth part of a denarius, and originally containing two asses and a half, afterward four asses, equal to about two pence sterling, or four cents. ... The sestertium was equivalent to one thousand sesterces, equal to £8 17s 1d. Sterling, or about $43, before the reign of Augustus. After his reign i …

sesterterpenes
Compounds formed from five isoprene units; often have a tricyclic structure; formed from geranylfarnesylpyrophosphate (e.g., cochliobolin B). ... Origin: L. Sestertius, two and one-half,fr. Semis, half, + tertius, third, + terpene ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

set
1. To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest or trunk on its bottom or on end. 'I do set my bow in the cloud.' (Gen. Ix. 13) ... 2. Hence, to attach or affix (some …

set (psychology)
Readiness to think or respond in a predetermined way when confronted with a problem or stimulus situation. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

set-off
1. That which is set off against another thing; an offset. 'I do not contemplate such a heroine as a set-off to the many sins imputed to me as committed against woman.' (D. Jerrold) ... 2. That which is used to improve the appearance of anything; a decoration; an ornament. ... 3. A counterclaim; a cross debt or demand; a distinct claim filed or set u …

set-up
1. The arrangement of teeth on a trial denture base. ... 2. A procedure in dental case analysis involving cutting off and repositioning of teeth in the desired positions on a plaster cast. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

seta
A bristle or stiff hair. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

setaceous
Bristly, set with bristles, consisting or having bristles. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

setaria
A genus of parasitic nematodes found in the peritoneal cavity of wild or domestic cattle or equines. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

Setaria cervi
A species that occurs in the abdominal cavity of cattle, buffalo, bison, yak, and various deer, but rarely in sheep. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Setaria equina
A species that is a common parasite of horses and other equids in all parts of the world; they are slender whitish filaments, several inches in length, usually found free in the peritoneal cavity, but occasionally reported in the pleural cavity, lungs, scrotum, eye, and intestine. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

setariasis
Infection with nematodes of the genus setaria. This condition is usually seen in cattle and equines and is of little pathogenic significance, although migration of the worm to the eye may lead to blindness. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

setback
A surgical operation for treatment of a bilateral cleft of the palate in which the premaxilla is moved posteriorly; the procedure is often accompanied by bone grafting. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

setiferous
Bristly or having bristles. ... Synonym: setigerous. ... Origin: L. Seta, bristle, + fero, to carry ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

seton operation
An operation for advanced glaucoma; passage of a tube or seton into the anterior chamber to act as a wick. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

seton wound
A tangential perforating wound, the entrance and exit openings being on the same side of the body, head, or limb involved. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

setose
Bristly. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

setter
1. One who, or that which, sets; used mostly in composition with a noun, as typesetter; or in combination with an adverb, as a setter on (or inciter), a setter up, a setter forth. ... 2. <zoology> A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate …

setting
Hardening, as of amalgam. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

setting expansion
The dimensional increase that occurs concurrently with the hardening of various materials, such as plaster of Paris. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

setting sun sign
<clinical sign> Retraction of the upper lid without upgaze so that the iris seems to 'set' below the lower lid; suggestive of neurologic damage in the newborn, but usually clears up without sequelae. ... See: Collier's sign, Epstein's sign. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

settle
1. To place in a fixed or permanent condition; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish; to fix; especially, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, or the like. 'And he settled his countenance steadfastly upon him, until he was ashamed.' (2 Kings viii. 11. (Rev. Ver)) 'The father thought the time drew on Of setting in the world h …

settlement
1. The act of setting, or the state of being settled. Specifically: ... Establishment in life, in business, condition, etc.; ordination or installation as pastor. 'Every man living has a design in his head upon wealth power, or settlement in the world.' (L'Estrange) ... The act of peopling, or state of being peopled; act of planting, as a colony; col …

settler
1. One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc. ... 2. Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or a colony; a colonist; a planter; as, the first settlers of New England. ... 3. That which settles or finishes; hence, a blow, etc, which settles or decides a contest. ... 4. A vessel, as a tub, in which something, as pulverized ore su …

seven
One more than six; six and one added; as, seven days make one week. Seven sciences. See the Note under Science. ... <astronomy> Seven stars, the Pleiades. Seven wonders of the world. See Wonders. ... <botany> Seven-year apple, a tropical climbing plant (Ipomoea tuberosa) related to the morning-glory. ... Origin: OE. Seven, seoven, seofen, …

seven-day fever
Synonym for autumn fever ... A fever resembling dengue occurring at the end of the summer in India. ... Synonym: seven-day fever. ... Synonym: hasamiyami. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Sevenless
Drosophila gene that is required for development of the R7 cell in each ommatidium in the eye. Gene product is a receptor tyrosine kinase, related to the insulin receptor. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

seventh cranial nerve
Synonym for facial nerve ... <anatomy, nerve> The facial nerve enervates the muscles of the face (facial expression). ... Lesion of the facial nerve cause a drooping to one side of the face, inability to wrinkle the forehead, inability to whistle, inability to close the eye and deviation of the mouth to the unaffected side. ... Synonym: cranial …

seventh sense
Synonym for visceral sense ... The perception of the existence of the internal organs. ... Synonym: seventh sense, splanchnesthesia, splanchnesthetic sensibility. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sever disease
<radiology> Osteochondrosis of the apophysis of the os calcis, apopohysis becomes dense and sclerotic and undergoes fragmentation, difficult to differentiate from normal finding on plain films, apophysis normally varies greatly and may ossify from several centres ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

severe combined immunodeficiency
Group of rare congenital disorders characterised by impairment of both humoral and cell-mediated immunity, leukopenia, and low or absent antibody levels. It is inherited as an x-linked or autosomal recessive defect. About half of the patients with autosomal recessive scid are deficient in the enzyme adenosine deaminase. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

severe postanoxic encephalopathy
Synonym for delayed coma after hypoxia ... Coma that develops a few days to 3 weeks after an acute hypoxic insult; the latter was usually severe enough to cause an initial bout of coma, which cleared, and was followed by a transient interval of apparent normality. ... Synonym: severe postanoxic encephalopathy. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

severin
<protein> Calcium dependent F actin cleaving protein (40 kD) isolated from Dictyostelium discoideum, that binds irreversibly to the barbed ends of the microfilament, not, apparently, essential for movement. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

Severinghaus electrode
Synonym for carbon dioxide electrode ... A glass electrode in a film of bicarbonate solution covered by a thin plastic membrane permeable to carbon dioxide but impermeable to water and electrolytes; the carbon dioxide pressure of a gas or liquid sample quickly equilibrates through the membrane and is measured in terms of the resulting pH of the bica …

Severinghaus, John
<person> U.S. Physiologist and anaesthesiologist, *1922. ... See: Severinghaus electrode. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

severity of illness index
Levels of severity of illness within a diagnostic group which are established by various measurement criteria. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

sevoflurane
Fluoromethyl 2,2,2-trifluoro-1-(trifluoromethyl)ethyl ether;a halogenated ether for inhalation anaesthesia. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sevum
Suet or tallow. ... Origin: L. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sewage
The waste water from domestic, commercial and industrial sources carried by sewers. ... (05 Dec 1998) ...

sewellel
<zoology> A peculiar gregarious burrowing rodent (Haplodon rufus), native of the coast region of the Northwestern United States. It somewhat resembles a muskrat or marmot, but has only a rudimentary tail. Its head is broad, its eyes are small and its fur is brownish above, gray beneath. It constitutes the family Haplodontidae. ... Synonym: boo …

sewer gas
Gas, probably mostly methane, resulting from decomposition of organic matter in sewers; potentially explosive and toxic. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sewing spasm
Synonym for seamstress's cramp ... An occupational dystonia occurring in the fingers of women who sew. ... Synonym: sewing spasm. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sex
1. The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of properties or qualities by which male is distinguished from female. ... 2. One of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the distinction of male and female. ... 3. <botany> The capability in p …

sex attractants
Pheromones that elicit sexual attraction or mating behaviour usually in members of the opposite sex in the same species. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

sex behaviour
Sexual activities of humans. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

sex behaviour, animal
Sexual activities of animals. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

sex cell
A spermatozoon or an ovum. ... Synonym: germ cell. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sex characteristics
Those characteristics that distinguish one sex from the other. The primary sex characteristics are the ovaries and testes and their related hormones. Secondary sex characteristics are those which are masculine or feminine but not directly related to reproduction. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

sex chromatin
Condensed chromatin of the inactivated X chromosome in female mammals (Barr body). ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

sex chromosome
<genetics> Chromosome that determines the sex of an animal. In humans, where the two sex chromosomes (X and Y) are dissimilar, the female has two X chromosomes and the male is heterogametic (XY). ... <zoology> In birds, the opposite is the case, the male being XX and the female XY, in many organisms, there is only one sex chromosome and …

sex chromosome imbalance
Any abnormal pattern of sex chromosomes; e.g., XXY in men with seminiferous tubule dysgenesis, XO in women with Turner's syndrome; rarer patterns of imbalance are XXX, XXXY, and XYY. ... See: isochromosome. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sex chromosomes
The homologous chromosomes that are dissimilar in the heterogametic sex. There are the x chromosome, the y chromosome, and the w, z chromosomes (in animals in which the female is the heterogametic sex (the silkworm moth bombyx mori, for example). In such cases the w chromosome is the female-determining and the male is zz. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

sex cord-stromal tumour
A malignant neoplasm of the ovary or testis. These tumours differentiate toward sex cords (in embryonic gonads) in the form of female (i.e., granulosa and theca) cells, male (i.e., sertoli and leydig) cells, or indifferent elements. In the ovary, sex cord-stromal tumours comprise 5% of all ovarian neoplasms. In the testes, leydig and sertoli cell t …

sex cords
Synonym for germinal cords ... The gonadal cord's of the embryonic ovary or testis. ... Synonym: sex cords. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sex counseling
Advice and support given to individuals to help them understand and resolve their sexual adjustment problems. It excludes treatment for psychosexual disorders or psychosexual dysfunction. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

sex determination
Determination of the sex of a foetus in utero by identification of foetal chromosomes. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sex determination (analysis)
Validation of the sex of an individual by inspection of the gonads and/or by genetic tests. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...