allo-

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From Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos, “other”), from Proto-Hellenic *áľľos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos (English else).

alloresponse is an alloimmune response, alloreaction is an immune response to an alloantigen, alloresponsive is that generates an alloresponse

(biology, medicine) Nonself; nonself but of the same species.

(immunology) Alloimmunity; (biology, medicine, transplantation) transplantation of cells or tissues from one person to another.

alloalbumin is any of a group of genetically-related albumins found in blood serum, allomorph is any of the different crystalline forms of a substance, alloidentical is being of the identical allotype

(chemistry, biology) An arbitrary member of a heterogenous-but-interrelated group.

allogeneous is from a nonself donor of the same species, allorecognition is the ability of an individual organism to distinguish its own tissues from those of another, alloimmunity is immunity against cells from another organism

allohaploid is having a single set of unpaired chromosomes derived from two different species, allopolyploid is having multiple complete sets of chromosomes derived from different species, allohexaploid is having six complete sets of chromosomes derived from different species

External, outside, or from a separate location.

(genetics) Hybridization of multiple species.

allolalia is any speech disorder resulting from cerebral damage, allochromasia is a defect in colour vision, allorhythmia is an irregular pattern of the heartbeat

Different, distinct, or other with respect to the root.

(pathology) Abnormal, defective with respect to the root.

alloprotein is a synthetic protein (especially one that contains an amino acid that is not found in nature), allopurinol is a synthetic drug which inhibits uric acid formation

(chemistry, pharmacology) Synthetic, artificial.


heliox

(medicine, underwater diving) A mixture of helium and oxygen used as a breathing gas.


neural crest

All of these features are under the control of a particular set of cells in the embryo called the neural crest, from which a particular part of the brain, the amygdala, derives.

1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 167:

(embryology) A strip of ectodermal material in the early vertebrate embryo inserted between the prospective neural plate and the epidermis.


neural plate

(anatomy) A thick, flat bundle of ectoderm formed in vertebrate embryos after induction by the notochord.


neurulation

en-noun

neurulation (usually uncountable, plural neurulations)

(embryology) The process by which the beginnings of the vertebrate nervous system is formed in embryos.


presbycusis

(otolaryngology, pathology) Inability of the ears, due to aging, to perceive and focus on high-pitched sounds.

presbyacousie

inability to focus on high-pitched sounds


valvulitis

valvulitis (usually uncountable, plural valvulitides)

(pathology) Inflammation of a valve, especially a heart valve.


CAO

(medicine) Initialism of conscious, alert and oriented.


Rohypnol

From the F. Hoffmann-La Roche brand name for flunitrazepam, a blend of Roche + hypno- + -ol.

Rohypnol like a chloroform / Sugar from the day you are born / Washed out like a dinosaur

2003, “Brothers and Sisters”, in Think Tank, performed by Blur:

Moss: [sniff] Why are you drinking rohypnol, Jen? Flunitrazepam, histomet... Yep, that's definitely rohypnol. Are you having problems with insomnia or?

2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6

(pharmacology) Flunitrazepam, a powerful sedative sometimes used as a date rape drug.


consolidation

consolidation (countable and uncountable, plural consolidations)

From Latin cōnsolidātiō, cōnsolidātiōnem, from cōnsolidō.

The areas of lung dysventilation with an absence of alveolar air are visualized in the form of consolidations adjacent to the pleural line.

2015 May 21, Vincenzo Basile et al., “Lung ultrasound: a useful tool in diagnosis and management of bronchiolitis”, in BMC Pediatrics, volume 15, →DOI:

These included multilobular consolidation with histiological lesions of bronchiolitis with epithelial necrosis and syncytia [14 ].

2015 November 17, “Single Pathogen Challenge with Agents of the Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(medicine) A solidification into a firm dense mass. It is usually applied to induration (swelling or hardening of normally soft tissue) of a normally aerated lung.

ztuhnutí

solidification into a firm dense mass (med.)


perc

perc trach


NAD

(medicine) Initialism of nothing abnormal (or no abnormality) discovered (or detected).


TPN

(medicine) Initialism of total parenteral nutrition.


tetraploidy

tetraploidy (countable and uncountable, plural tetraploidies)

(uncountable, genetics) The state of being tetraploid, having four sets of chromosomes.

(countable, genetics) An instance of being tetraploid.


comorbidity

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From co- + morbidity or comorbid + -ity.

Extensive comorbidity is the hallmark of immunodeficiencies.

The reported comorbidity between categorical personality disorders and OCD ranges between 33 and 87 percent (Bejerot et al, 1998).

2006, Ruth Gross-Isseroff, Abraham Weizman, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Comorbidity:

(medicine, uncountable) The presence of one or more disorders (or diseases) in addition to a primary disease or disorder.

Coronary artery disease is often a comorbidity of diabetes mellitus.

Yet in private conversations, members of his staff were also candid that the president has comorbidities that could make him more susceptible to a severe bout of the virus.

2020 October 2, “Trump’s Positive Coronavirus Test Upends Campaign in Final Stretch”, in New York Times:

(medicine, countable) A disease thus coexisting.

(medicine, uncountable) The effect of such additional disorders or diseases.


dikkop

From Afrikaans dikkop, from dik (“thick”) + kop (“head”).

Dik-kop in a Carriage Horse.— The day before I was called in the horse had been driven about twelve miles.

1901 April 12, “Veterinary Departmental Report for February, 1901”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 3, page 85:

(South Africa, pathology) A viral infection of horses causing swelling of parts of the head.


clonal

(cytology) Related to the descendants through cell division of a single identifiable cell, either in vitro or in vivo


stirrup

From Middle English stirop, stirope, from Old English stiġrāp (“stirrup”), a compound of stiġe ("ascent, descent, a going up or down"; related to stīġan (“to climb”)) and rāp (“rope”), equivalent to sty + rope.
Cognate with Dutch stegereep, stegelreep (“stirrup”), Old Saxon stigerēp (“stirrup”), Middle High German stereip, stegreif ("stirrup"; > German Stegreif (“improvisation”)), Icelandic stigreip (“stirrup”).

gloss

"ascent, descent, a going up or down"; related to <i class="Latn mention" lang="ang">stīġan</i> (“to climb”)

"stirrup"; > German <i class="Latn mention" lang="de">Stegreif</i> (“improvisation”)


scala

Borrowed from Latin scāla (“ladder”). Doublet of scale.

(anatomy) Ladder-like structure in the cochlea of a mammal's ear.


spina

Unadapted borrowing from Latin spīna (“a thorn; a prickle, spine”). Doublet of spine.


ichthyosis

en-noun

ichthyosis (countable and uncountable, plural ichthyoses)

/ɪkθɪˈəʊsɪs/

A well-marked case of pseudo-leprosy or ichthyosis, a scale-like affection of the skin, unsightly, obstinate, but possibly curable, and certainly non-infective.

1926, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier, Norton, published 2005, page 1506:

(pathology) A disease which gives the sufferer a dry, scaly skin.

ictiosi

disease which gives the sufferer dry scaly skin


anthelmintic

en-adj

anthelmintic (comparative more anthelmintic, superlative most anthelmintic)

more anthelmintic (comparative)
most anthelmintic (superlative)

From ant- + helminth + -ic; the th in helminth has become t by dissimilation.

Research is progressing well on finding native plants with anthelmintic properties.

The parasites thrive in an environment of dirt, and the main lines of precaution are those dictated by sanitary science. Malefern, santonine, thymol and other anthelmintic remedies are prescribed.

1911, “Ankylostomiasis”, in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition:

However, the lighter boiling constituents of tne oil are much less irritating and at the same time they are apparently more anthelmintic than the heavier fraction.

1918, American Society for Microbiology, Society of American Bacteriologists, Abstracts of Bacteriology, volume 2, page 262:

Our experiments indicate that this constituent is anthelmintic and also a gastrointestinal irritant, while the lighter portion of the oil is apparently even more anthelmintic and much less irritating.

1919, Experiment Station Record, volume 39, page 586:

(pharmacology) Destructive to parasitic worms.

հակաճիճվային

destructive to parasitic intestinal worms


anthelmintic

The bark of the root is likewise valued as an anthelmintic in cases of tape-worm.

1911, Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, Pomegranate:

Rather than give a long list of the anthelmintics available, I will describe the helminths that cause problems and then suggest methods of control.

2010, Graham R. Duncanson, Veterinary Treatment for Working Equines, page 42:

(medicine) A drug for the treatment of worm infestation, either by killing the worms or by causing them to be expelled from the body.

հակաճիճվային միջոց

drug that causes the expulsion or death of intestinal worms


nanomedicine

en-noun

nanomedicine (countable and uncountable, plural nanomedicines)

(medicine, uncountable) The use of nanotechnology for diagnosing, treating and preventing disease.

(medicine, countable) Any medicine containing nanoparticles.


self-splicing

(genetics, of an intron) Able to splice without the addition of any protein factors.


uricosuric

The relation of chemical constitution to the effect on the uric acid excretion, the uricosuric action, of cinchophen was first studied by Niccolaier and Dohrn (1908).

1933, W.F. von Oettingen, chapter 5, in The Therapeutic Agents of the Quinoline Group, Cinchophen, Plasmoquine, Nupercaine, Quinine and Acridine Dyes; the Relation between their Chemical Constitution and Pharmacologic Action, pages 90–91:

If the contention of Folin and Lyman and of Denis as to the identity of the uricosuric activity of cinchophen and the salicylates is correct, the same alterations in uric acid excretion should occur when the latter is administered after section of renal nerves as when cinchophen is given.

1934 December, M.G. Gray with G.P. Grabfield, “Studies on the denervated kidney II. The action of sodium salicylate on the uric acid, allantoin, sodium chloride and total nitrogen excretion in dogs”, in Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, volume 52, number 4, page 384:

(medicine) Pertaining to gout suppressants that act directly on the renal tubule to increase the excretion of uric acid, thus reducing its concentrations in plasma.


explant

en-verb

explant (third-person singular simple present explants, present participle explanting, simple past and past participle explanted)

explants (present singular third-person)
explanting (participle present)
explanted (participle past)
explanted (past)

Fifty chapters are dedicated to this subject and explain complex issues such as managing radiation induced urethral stricture, reconstruction of the neophallus urethra, methods of explanting urethral stents, and salvaging failed slings and artificial urinary sphincters.

2015 June 29, Jang Hwan Kim, “Advanced Male Urethral and Genital Reconstructive Surgery. 2nd ed.”, in International Neurourology Journal, volume 19, →DOI:

(medicine) To remove something, such as a medical device, that has been implanted.


meningocele

(pathology) A form of spina bifida in which a meningeal sac of cerebrospinal fluid protrudes through the skull.


bulliform

en-adj

bulliform (comparative more bulliform, superlative most bulliform)

more bulliform (comparative)
most bulliform (superlative)

Latin bulla (“any swollen round object”), + -iform

uder

(medicine) Having a blistered appearance; bullate.


flexure

en-noun

flexure (countable and uncountable, plural flexures)

The Stomach [of a weasel] about three inches long; proportionably, more than a Dogs. An inch in Diametre at the upper Orifice; and the nether, ¼; having a flexure towards its Conjunction with the Guts: ſhaped like to the body of a pair of Bag-Pipes.

1681, Nehemiah Grew, “The Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts Begun. Being Several Lectures Read before the Royal Society in the Year, 1676. Chapter I. Of the Stomachs and Guts of Six Carnivorous Quadrupeds; sc. The Weesle, Fitchet, Polecat, Cat, Dog and Fox.”, in Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, →OCLC, page 1:

(anatomy) A curve or bend in a tubular organ.


concoction

concoction (countable and uncountable, plural concoctions)

[kʰənˈkʰɑkʃɪn]

[kʰəŋˈkʰɑkʃɪn]

(obsolete, medicine) Abatement of a morbid process, such as fever, and return to a normal condition.


adrenalitis

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(pathology) Inflammation of one or both adrenal glands, leading to an insufficiency of cortisol and/or aldosterone.

adrenalitis

inflammation of one or both adrenal glands


Holy Trinity

From Middle English holy Trinitee, a partial translation of earlier hali þrumnesse, haliʒ ðrymnesse (“holy trinity”, literally “holy threeness”), from Old English hālgu þrines. Equivalent to holy + Trinity.

(pharmacology, informal) The combination of an opioid, a benzodiazepine, and carisoprodol.


presumptive

en-adj

presumptive (comparative more presumptive, superlative most presumptive)

more presumptive (comparative)
most presumptive (superlative)

PIE word
 *upó
From Late Middle English presumptif, presumptijf (“based on presumption”), from Anglo-Norman presumptif and Middle French presumptif, présomptif (“based on presumption; of an heir or heiress: presumed to be entitled to inherit unless someone with a superior entitlement is born; presumptuous”) (modern French présomptif), and directly from their etymon Late Latin praesumptivus (“based on presumption; bold; insolent”), from Latin praesūmptus (“presumed”) + -īvus (suffix forming adjectives). Praesūmptus is the perfect passive participle of praesūmō (“to presume”), from prae- (prefix meaning ‘before; in front’) + sūmō (“to seize, take; to accept, presuppose; to undertake”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- (“to distribute; to take”)).

предполагаем

based on presumption or conjecture — see also presumed

Based on presumption or conjecture; inferred, likely, presumed.

(embryology) Of a cell or tissue: which has yet to differentiate, but is presumed to develop into a particular body part.

alustava

of a cell or tissue: which has yet to differentiate, but is presumed to develop into a particular body part


oncogene

It was obvious from the start what kinds of genes oncogenes would turn out to be – genes that encourage cells to grow.

1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 234:

(oncology, genetics) Any gene that contributes to the conversion of a normal cell into a cancerous cell when mutated or expressed at high levels.


cine

Clipping of cinefilm, from Ancient Greek κῑνέω (kīnéō, “to move”).

(medicine) Images of the heart taken by fluoroscopy.


anterolateral

(anatomy, medicine) In front of the body, away from the midline.

ântero-lateral

in front of the body, away from the midline


midline

(anatomy, medicine) The medial line (or plane) of the body, which divides the body into halves that are mirror-images of each other.


rickety

en-adj

rickety (comparative ricketier or more rickety, superlative ricketiest or most rickety)

ricketier (comparative)
more rickety (comparative)
ricketiest (superlative)
most rickety (superlative)

From dialectal ricket (“unstable, rickety”) + -y, and/or ricket (“to move noisily and in a reckless way”) + -y.
Alternatively, and perhaps less likely, from rickets + -y.

suf

(pathology) Affected with or suffering from rickets; rachitic.


isozyme

(biology, medicine) Synonym of isoenzyme.


opportunistic infection

en-noun

opportunistic infection (countable and uncountable, plural opportunistic infections)

(medicine) Any infection that causes disease and occurs only when the host's immune system is impaired.


macrolide

(medicine) Any of a group of antibiotics having this structure


antinociception

antinociception (countable and uncountable, plural antinociceptions)

(neurology) Reduced sensitivity to pain.


defibrillator

(cardiology) An electronic device used internally or externally that delivers a controlled electric shock to a patient to correct ventricular fibrillation, a lack of coordination of the contraction of muscle tissue of the large chambers of the heart.


idiosyncratic reaction

idiosyncratic reaction (plural idiosyncratic reactions)

(pharmacy, medicine) A reaction to a medication that is unusual and unpredictable, specific to a particular person. Unlike allergy, it can occur on first exposure to the medication; unlike a side effect, it affects only very few individuals.


odontalgia

odontalgia (countable and uncountable, plural odontalgias)

/ˌəʊdɒnˈtæld͡ʒə/

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ὀδονταλγία (odontalgía, “toothache”). By surface analysis, odonto- + -algia.

der

Odontalgia is the most common of all the neuralgias of pregnant women.

1886, Pierre Cazeaux, The Theory and Practice of Obstetrics v. 2, page 507:


coldspot

(physiology) Alternative form of cold spot


dystopic

en-adj

dystopic (comparative more dystopic, superlative most dystopic)

more dystopic (comparative)
most dystopic (superlative)


monophasia

(pathology) A type of aphasia where the sufferer is only able to speak a single word or sentence.


proteome

/ˈpɹəʊtɪəʊm/

Blend of protein + genome or proteo- + -ome.

Two-dimensional (2-D) gel electrophoresis allows the separation of thousands of proteins, and provides the means for separating the proteome (the PROTEin complement expressed by a genOME) of a simple species, or the protein component of a complex tissue.

1996 January 7, Marc R. Wilkins, “From Proteins to Proteomes: Large Scale Protein Identification by Two-Dimensional Electrophoresis and Amino Acid Analysis”, in Nature Biotechnology, volume 14, page 61:

So now the quest is to crack the human proteome – a concept so novel that the term proteome didn't even exist a decade ago.

2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, published 2003, page 367:

(biochemistry, genetics) The complete set of proteins encoded by a particular genome.


iridic

(medicine) Of or relating to the iris of the eye.


fosse

From Middle English fosse, from Old French fosse, from Latin fossa (“ditch, trench”).


fossa

en-noun

fossa (plural fossae or (obsolete) fossæ)

Unadapted borrowing from Latin fossa (“a ditch, trench, fosse”). Doublet of fosse.

ubor

(anatomy) A pit, groove, cavity, or depression.


hemochromatosis

en-noun

hemochromatosis (countable and uncountable, plural hemochromatoses)

/ˌhiːmə(ʊ)ˌkɹəʊməˈtəʊsɪs/

From hemo- (“blood”) + chromat- (“color”) + -osis (“disease”), from the changing color of blood affected by the disorder.

affix

Sometimes, it’s not the potential for big profits that restricts access to a gene test, but just the opposite-lack of commercial incentive. In 1996, a Stanford University research team found the gene for hemochromatosis, a little-known disease in which the blood absorbs abnormally high levels of iron from the diet.

2001, Arthur Allen, “Who Owns My Disease?”, in Mother Jones:

She flips another page and says, “Oh, now this is interesting.” Apparently I carry one of the two genetic mutations required to develop hemochromatosis, an iron-overload disorder that destroys the liver.

2005, Michael Rosenwald, “Will You Be Able to Predict—And Prevent—Your Disease?”, in Popular Science, volume 267, number 3, page 63:

Even if the two diseases in such a pair are clinically dissimilar, the primary pathophysiological events could overlap substantially (e.g., increased intestinal iron absorption in nutritional anemia and hemochromatosis).

2012, Mohammadali M. Shoja, R. Shane Tubbs, Alireza Ghaffari, Marios Loukas, Paul S. Agutter, “Rethinking the Origin of Chronic Diseases”, in BioScience, volume 62, number 5, Oxford UP, →DOI, page 470:

(pathology) A metabolic disorder causing iron deposits in the body, also called bronze diabetes.


auro-

(medicine, rare) Alternative form of aur- (“ear; sound; noise”)


orthostasis

A history of orthostasis prompts some caution in prescribing of antihypertensives.

en:hypotension from standing, elliptically

orthostatic hypotension
orthostatic hypotension#English

(sciences, especially medicine, informal) Ellipsis of orthostatic hypotension.


MRA

Finerenone, a nonsteroidal MRA, was among the drugs in the trials.

2024 January 9, Jacqueline Howard, “Kidney disease medication found to reduce risk of cardiovascular death in certain heart failure patients in new study”, in CNN:

(medicine) Initialism of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist.


sulfonamide

sulfonamides (plural)
spelling (IUPAC US)

(pharmacology) Any of a group of antibiotics; a sulfa drug


sulphonamide

In the early 1930s, researchers in Germany produced a group of antibacterial drugs known as sulphonamides, but they didn’t always work well and often had serious side effects.

2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 48:

(British spelling, pharmacology) Alternative spelling of sulfonamide


mortification

en-noun

mortification (countable and uncountable, plural mortifications)

honor

antonym(s) of “a sensation of extreme shame”

/ˌmɔːtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

From Middle French mortification, from Old French, from Latin mortificatio.

And then there's the fever and the mortification—if it took bad ways he'd quickly be gone.

1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 5”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

(medicine) The death of part of the body.


microshock

(medicine) A small electric current passing directly through the heart, sending the patient directly into ventricular fibrillation.


nanovaccinology

(medicine) The use of nanotechnology in vaccine development.


familial

From French familial (“relating to a family; familial”), from Latin familia (“family (in the sense of the slaves working for a household); household”) (from famulus (“servant; slave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁-m-eló-, from *dʰeh₁- (“to do, place, put”)) + French -al (adjective-forming suffix) (from Latin -ālis, from Proto-Indo-European *-li-). Doublet of familiar.

der

fatal familial insomnia

Cerebral CMs [cavernous malformations] are, for the majority of cases, sporadic lesions. However, familial incidences have been documented for quite some time. In 1928, Kufs reported two cases: an 81-year-old man who presented with "multiple intercranial nodular telangiectases," and his daughter, suspected of harboring a lesion in the pons.

1993, Frank P. K. Hsu, Daniele Rigamonti, Stephen L. Huhn, “Epidemiology of Cavernous Malformations”, in Issam A. Awad, Daniel L. Barrow, editors, Cavernous Malformations, Park Ridge, Ill.: American Association of Neurological Surgeons, →ISBN, page 15, column 2:

Familial history of cerebral aneurysms in several families has been reported. […] To determine whether familial history is a risk factor, [Wouter] Schievink et al conducted a community-based study of familial aneurysmal SAH [subarachnoid hemorrhage].

1997, James C. Torner, Patricia H. Davis, “Epidemiology and Clinical Manifestations of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage”, in Joshua B. Bederson, editor, Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Pathophysiology and Management (Neurosurgical Topics), Park Ridge, Ill.: American Association of Neurological Surgeons, →ISBN, page 12, column 2:


dominance

en-noun

dominance (countable and uncountable, plural dominances)

(physiology) The superior development of or preference for one side of the body or one of a pair of organs; such as being right-handed.

դոմինանտություն

superior development or preference for one side of the body or for one of a pair of organs

(biology, genetics) of an allele, the degree to which it expresses its phenotype when heterozygous, such as whether it is dominant or recessive.


hemostat

Coordinate term: hemoclip

“We gave them fake arms and taught them to hold a scalpel, how to tie sutures, how to hold multiple instruments,” Dr. Burns, the show’s medical adviser, said in a recent interview in his cluttered study, demonstrating the gunslinger reflexes needed to flip a waiting hemostat, a scissor-like tool, off the wrist and seal a broken blood vessel.

2014 January 8, Jennifer Schuessler, “The Cocaine, the Blood, the Body Count”, in The New York Times:

(medicine) An instrument that clamps blood vessels to diminish or halt blood flow.


heroics

/hɪˈɹəʊ.ɪks/

Of if we have an elderly person who is unconscious and not responding, we discuss using heroics with the family, and they often say no heroics.

1976, Ronald E. Alexander, Lawrence P. Wilkins, Medical-legal dilemmas in the care of the critically ill:

Her daughters argue that no heroics should be used to prolong her life.

1988, American College of Legal Medicine, Legal Medicine: Legal Dynamics of Medical Encounters, page 122:

No Heroics. Do not use respirators, ventilators or administer medication other than those medications necessary to prevent infection, provide comfort or alleviate pain.

1998, George Watson, Emily Watson, The Calling: A Journey on the Path of Parent Care, page 29:

(US, medicine) Emergency intervention to save a patient's life.


pyknotic

en-adj

pyknotic (comparative more pyknotic, superlative most pyknotic)

more pyknotic (comparative)
most pyknotic (superlative)

From pyknosis. See Ancient Greek πυκνωτικός (puknōtikós, “serving to close the pores”).

uder

a pyknotic nucleus

Several intensely labeled pycnotic bodies point to the occurrence of cell death [...]

rectum of T. derasa showing one morphologically intact zooxanthella and two pycnotic algal cells


membranes

(medicine, informal, specifically) The amniotic sac.


eventuality

en-noun

eventuality (countable and uncountable, plural eventualities)

Calque of French éventualité, eventual + -ity

(obsolete, phrenology) An individual's propensity to take notice of events, changes, or facts. [from 19th c.]


mistreat

en-verb

mistreat (third-person singular simple present mistreats, present participle mistreating, simple past and past participle mistreated)

mistreats (present singular third-person)
mistreating (participle present)
mistreated (participle past)
mistreated (past)

The syphilis that Catapano and other AIDS-syphilis theorists are especially concerned about may develop when repeated treponeme infections are not treated, or, more commonly, are 'mistreated with penicillin.

1989 April 8, John Dooley, “Syphilis and AIDS: What's the Connection?”, in Gay Community News, page 8:

(transitive, medicine) To administer an incorrect treatment to a patient.


LDA

en-noun

LDA (countable and uncountable, plural LDAs)

(veterinary) Initialism of left-displaced abomasum.


berylliosis

berylliosis (countable and uncountable, plural beryllioses)

(medicine) A chronic disease of the lungs, caused by inhalation of beryllium compounds.

beryllioosi

chronic disease of the lungs caused by inhalation of beryllium compounds


boron deficiency

Boron deficiency (plant disorder)
boron deficiency (medicine)

boron deficiency (countable and uncountable, plural boron deficiencies)

(medicine) any pathological effect in animals and humans due to a deficiency of boron in the diet


susceptibility

susceptibility (countable and uncountable, plural susceptibilities)

en:vulnerability of a pathogen to treatment

(biology, medicine, of a pathogen) Being vulnerable to a treatment (usually an antibiotic or antifungal); also, the degree of such vulnerability (i.e., weak, moderate, or strong).


azoturia

azoturia (usually uncountable, plural azoturias)

(medicine) An increase in the amount of nitrogenous material (such as urea) in the urine

(veterinary medicine) A condition that affects the muscles of horses, ranging from stiffness and mild cramps to the horse becoming unable to stand, with discoloured urine


obs

(medicine) Observation(s) (blood pressure, temperature, etc).


oximeter

Cambridge University Press
Glenn Allan Millikan

From oxi- (variant of oxy-) + -meter. The word was first applied in sense 2 (“a device that measures the oxygen saturation of arterial blood”) by American physiologist Glenn Allan Millikan (1906–1947).

confix

variant of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">oxy-</i>

The Millikan oxymeter, with which Dr. Howard Bierman has been working and which he has discussed with this group, can be attached to the external ear and gives prompt information about oxygen saturation. It is so calibrated that the administration of 97 to 100% oxygen to normal individuals causes an increase of 5 per cent in the oxymeter reading.

1950 January 25, Francis L. Chamberlain, “Therapy of Myocardial Infarction”, in The Bulletin of the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, volume 1, number 5, San Francisco, Calif.: University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, published March 1950, →OCLC, page 544:

At 8 to 10 G, ear oximeter readings may fall to 75 percent saturation. The lungs, afterward, may show some atelectasis.

1967, Arthur B. DuBois, “Exchange of Fluids in Lungs”, in Physiology in the Space Environment: Report of a Conference Conducted by the Space Science Board of the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, June–July 1966 (Publication; 1485B), volume II (Respiration), Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, →OCLC, page 62:

The study was designed to evaluate use of the oxygen-saturation monitor (pulse oximeter) in patients undergoing aesthetic surgical procedures with adjunctive intravenous sedation in an office-based ambulatory surgical facility. The objective use of the pulse oximeter in this type of setting has not been previously reported in the plastic surgical literature.

1988 July, Robert Singer, Paul E. Thomas, “Pulse Oximeter in the Ambulatory Aesthetic Surgical Facility”, in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, volume 82, number 1, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, page 111, column 1; reprinted in “Appendix: Additional Material Submitted for the Record”, in Cosmetic Surgery Procedures: Standards, Quality, and Certification of Nonhospital Operating Rooms—Part III: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities, and Energy of the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session: […] (Serial No. 101-14), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989 June 28, →OCLC, page 529:

Two technological advances, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and microprocessors, plus the ingenious idea of analyzing the change in light absorption produced by arterial pulsations, resulted in the development of a new generation of oximeters: the pulse oximeter [...]. Now, clinicians are again thinking of oxygenation as a function of the degree of saturation and oxygen content, as the pulse oximeter becomes the preferred monitoring device.

1995, Elizabeth H. Thilo, Julia Brockway Curlander, William W. Hay, Jr., “Pulse Oximeter”, in Yves W. Brans, William W. Hay, Jr., editors, Physiological Monitoring and Instrument Diagnosis in Perinatal and Neonatal Medicine, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, part 2 (Oxygenation), page 147, column 2:

Direct reading of COHb usually is performed in the clinical or hospital setting through the use of a direct-reading spectrophotometer, such as a CO-Oximeter (CO-Ox).

2000 June, “Analytical Methods for Monitoring Carbon Monoxide”, in Air Quality Criteria for Carbon Monoxide (EPA; 600/P-99/001F), Research Triangle Park, N.C.: National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, United States Environmental Protection Agency, →OCLC, section 2.6.1 (Carboxyhemoglobin Measurements), page 2-13:

The pulse oximeter (SpO2) is a fast growing and commonly utilized transcutaneous methodology that represents a combination of oximetry and plethysmographic technologies for screening, treatment planning and evaluation and research [...] Precision of various pulse oximeters were noted [to] be fairly consistent at approximately 2% [...].

2003 July, Ronald [F.] Maio, “Project Findings”, in Emergency Medical Services Outcomes Evaluation (Report; No. DOT HS 809 603), Washington, D.C.: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, →OCLC, section 5.2.4.2 (Respiratory Distress), page 38:

Mice subjected to intermittent O₂ treatment were exposed to 100% O₂ directly after surgery for two 3 hours intervals, with a period of 3 hours of normal ambient air in between. [...] O₂ concentration was continually recorded using an oxymeter.

2015 July 6, Julia Kemmler et al., “Exposure to 100% Oxygen Abolishes the Impairment of Fracture Healing after Thoracic Trauma”, in Jose Manuel Garcia Aznar, editor, PLoS One, volume 10, number 7, San Francisco, Calif.: Public Library of Science, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

(medicine, specifically) A device that measures the oxygen saturation of arterial blood.


drench

From Middle English drench, drenche (“beverage, drink; cup of drink, specifically a poisoned drink; medicinal potion, specifically an emetic (?)”) [and other forms], from Old English drenċ (“drink; draft, potion; dose (of medicine, poison, etc.)”), from Proto-West Germanic *dranki, from Proto-Germanic *drankiz (“drink; potion; dose”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrenǵ- (“to draw, pull; to gulp; to sip”). Doublet of drink (noun).
Cognates
* Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌺 (draggk), 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌺 (dragk, “beverage, drink”)
* Old Dutch *dranc, (Middle Dutch dranc, modern Dutch drank (“beverage, drink”))
* Old High German tranc, tranch (Middle High German tranc, modern German Trank (“drink; potion”))
* Old Saxon dranc

nb...

drænc, drænce, drenc, drencche, drence, dreinch, drenke, drunch

inh

O my ſvveet Harry ſaies ſhe! hovv manie haſt thou kild to day? Giue my roane horſe a drench (ſayes hee) and aunſvveres ſome foureteene, an houre after: a trifle, a trifle.

c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], signature D3, recto:

It [siler] ſtaieth the gurrie or running out of the belly in foure-footed beaſts, vvhether it bee given ſtamped by vvay of a drench and ſo injected, or chevved drie among their meat vvith ſalt.

1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XX.] Of the Serpentine Cucumber, Called otherwise the Wandering Cucumber: Also of the Garden Cucumbers, Melons or Pompions.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 2nd tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 41:

A Drench of VVine has vvith ſucceſs been us'd; / And through a Horn, the gen'rous Juice infus'd: / VVhich timely taken op'd his cloſing Javvs; / But, if too late, the Patient's [a horse's] death did cauſe.

1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 119:

(veterinary medicine) A dose or draught of liquid medicine administered to an animal.

annos

dose or draught of medicine administered to an animal


drench

en-verb

drench (third-person singular simple present drenches, present participle drenching, simple past and past participle drenched)

drenches (present singular third-person)
drenching (participle present)
drenched (participle past)
drenched (past)
drench (infinitive)

The verb is derived from Middle English drenchen, drench (“to drown; to flood, inundate; to consume (drink or food); to give (someone) a drink; to poison (someone) with a drink; to immerse, soak, drench; to descend, fall, sink; to penetrate, permeate; (figurative) to engulf, overwhelm”) [and other forms], from Old English drenċan (“to give (someone) a drink; to immerse, soak, drench”), from Proto-West Germanic *drankijan, from Proto-Germanic *drankijaną (“to cause (someone) to drink”), the causative of *drinkaną (“to drink”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrenǵ- (“to draw, pull; to gulp; to sip”). Doublet of drink (verb).
The noun is derived from the verb (sense 1.2).
Cognates
* Old High German trenchen (modern German tränken (“to give a drink; to water”))
* Old Norse drekkja, drenkja (Swedish dränka)
* Old Saxon dręnkian (Dutch drenke (“to get a drink”))

nb...

dreinche, dreinchen, drenche, drengen, drensche, drenshen, drinche, drynche

juottaa

to cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink; to administer a dose or draught of liquid medicine to (an animal), often by force

To cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink.

(specifically, veterinary medicine) To administer a dose or draught of liquid medicine to (an animal), often by force.


bends

decompression sickness
decompression sickness#English

(underwater diving, pathology, usually with the) Synonym of decompression sickness.


spondylosis

(medicine) A degenerative disease in which the vertebral joints of the spine become stiff and then fused.


peroxisome

(cytology) An intracellular organelle found in all eukaryotes (except Archezoa) which is the source of the enzymes that catalyze the production and breakdown of hydrogen peroxide, and are responsible for the oxidation of long-chain fatty acids.


breathlessness

en-noun

breathlessness (usually uncountable, plural breathlessnesses)

Since he'd entered the urgent care center, his breathlessness had only gotten worse, even though he'd been sitting quietly.

(medicine) Difficult or labored breathing, as a symptom or sign of a medical condition.


aseptic

Pharmaceuticals are packaged using aseptic techniques.

(medicine) Used to protect against infection by disease-causing microbes.


gelotology

/ˌd͡ʒɛləˈtɒləd͡ʒi/

/ˌd͡ʒɛləˈtɑləd͡ʒi/

From Ancient Greek γέλωτος (gélōtos) (the genitive of γέλως (gélōs, “laughter”)) + English -logy (suffix denoting the study of a particular subject), coined by the anthropologist and linguist Edith Trager with participation from the American psychiatrist William F. Fry, Jr. (1924–2014) in March 1964.

coinage

Let's not develop a cult of laughology (though the study of laughter in medicine has already been christened gelotology from the Greek root meaning "laughter.") Humor is an important and documented adjunct in the life of both the well and the unwell, but as a therapy it rarely can stand alone.

1996, Robert R. Cadmus, “Humor and Enhanced Well-being in the Later Years”, in Len Sperry, Harry Prosen, editors, Aging in the Twenty-first Century: A Developmental Perspective (Issues in Aging; 5; Garland Reference Library of Social Science; 1053), New York, N.Y., London: Garland Publishing, →ISBN, page 140:

One of the founders of gelotology (gelos is Greek for "laughter"), Stanford University professor William F. Fry, also experimented on himself in the early 1960s. He drew blood samples at regular intervals while watching Laurel and Hardy and other comedic movies and had the samples analyzed. He found that laughter enhanced the activity of certain immune system cells responsible for killing infectious pathogens.

2005 October 1, Charmaine Liebertz, “A Healthy Laugh”, in John Rennie, editor, Scientific American, New York, N.Y.: Springer Nature American, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-09-19:

Gelotology, the study of laughter, was established in the late 1960s in an effort to determine the possible physiological and psychological effects humor and laughter can have. One of the pioneers of Gelotology, William F. Fry, a Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, has done extensive research on the physiological benefits of laughter with very encouraging findings.

2013 November 29, Robert T. Muller, “LOL: How Laughter can Improve Your Health”, in Psychology Today, New York, N.Y.: Sussex Publishers, →ISSN, →OCLC:

(psychology, physiology) The study of humour and laughter, and its effects on the body.


phytomining

/ˈfaɪtəʊˌmaɪnɪŋ/

From phyto- (prefix meaning ‘derived from or pertaining to plants’) + mining.

prefix

Cultivation of hyperaccumulators on naturally enriched areas offers the greatest promise for use in phytomining. Phytomining is a more specific form of phytoremediation where the purpose of metal removal from soil is economic gain.

2005 May, J. Scott Angle, Nicholas A. Linacre, “Cultivation on Naturally Enriched Areas”, in Ecological Risks of Novel Environmental Crop Technologies Using Phytoremediation as an Example (EPT Discussion Paper; 133), Washington, D.C.: Environment and Production Technology Division, International Food Policy Research Institute, →OCLC, page 14:

The three metals, nickel, thallium and gold were reported as candidates for phytomining in 1999 owing to the relatively high price that each metal commands on international commodity markets.

2013, Christopher W. N. Anderson, “Hyperaccumulation by Plants”, in Andrew J. Hunt, editor, Element Recovery and Sustainability (RSC Green Chemistry Series; no. 22), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: RSC Publishing, →ISBN, page 121:

Added value to the phytoextraction process could be obtained by combining the biomass produced as an energy source, resulting in an ore after incinerating the residual biomass. This would be possible in the case of phytomining, a particular example of phytoextraction. Phytomining involves the exploitation of subeconomic ore bodies using hyperaccumulating plants.

2013, Meri Barbafieri, Jan Japenga, Paul Romkens, Giannantonio Petruzzelli, Francesca Pedron, “Protocols for Applying Phytotechnologies in Metal-Contaminated Soils”, in Dharmendra Kumar Gupta, editor, Plant-Based Remediation Processes (Soil Biology), Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, New York, N.Y.: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 23:

(biotechnology) The planting and harvesting of vegetation that selectively concentrates specific metals from the environment into their tissues, for the purpose of commercial exploitation of the extracted metal.


carminative

en-adj

carminative (comparative more carminative, superlative most carminative)

more carminative (comparative)
most carminative (superlative)

From Latin carminō (“to card, hence to cleanse”), from carmen (“a card for freeing wool or flax from the coarser parts, and from extraneous matter”).

der

If too much milke be the cauſe, then the Nurſe ſhall not give the childe ſucke ſo often, nor in ſuch plenty: If it proceed from wind, and that doe cauſe the childe to be thus troubled, it ſhall be diſcuſſed with Fomentations applied to the belly and navell; and with Carminative Cliſters, which ſhall bee given him, […]

1635, James Guillimeau [i.e., Jacques Guillemeau], “Of Gripings and Fretting in the Belly, which Trouble Little Children”, in The Nvrsing of Children […] , London: Printed by Anne Griffin […] ; published in Child-birth, or, The Happy Delivery of VVomen […] , London: Printed by Anne Griffih […] , 1635, →OCLC, page 52:

They used to give me cinnamon when I had a cold—quite useless, but not disagreeable. […] On the label was a list of its virtues, and among other things it was described as being in the highest degree carminative. I adored the word.

1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 20, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus, page 220:

(medicine) Relieving the discomfort of gas in the digestive tract, either by reducing its production (by the gut microbiota) or by inducing its expulsion (whether as belches [upper GI action] or as flatus [lower GI action]).


carminative

“A mental carminative,” said Mr. Scogan reflectively. “That's what you need.”

1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 20, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus, page 226:

But Master Nathaniel was indifferent to these manifestations of unpopularity. Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.

1926, Hope Mirrlees, chapter 9, in Lud-in-the-Mist:

(medicine) A drug or substance that relieves the discomfort of gas in the digestive tract, either by reducing its production (by the gut microbiota) or by inducing its expulsion (whether as belches [upper GI action] or as flatus [lower GI action]).

ὀξυπόριον

substance that induces the releasing of gas


suction

en-noun

suction (usually uncountable, plural suctions)

From Latin sūctiō, attested since Late Latin and derived from sūgō (“to suck”). Attested in English since the early 17th century.

(dentistry) A device for removing saliva from a patient's mouth during dental operations, a saliva ejector.


recon

Contracted form of recombination + -on, coined by American molecular biologist Seymour Benzer in 1957 as " […] the smallest element in the one-dimensional array that is interchangeable (but not divisible) by genetic recombination."

coinage

(genetics) The smallest genetic unit that is capable of undergoing recombination.


keratoconus

(pathology) A degenerative non-inflammatory disorder of the eye in which structural changes within the cornea cause it to thin and change to a more conical shape than its normal even curve.


beating-heart transplant

en-noun

beating-heart transplant (plural beating-heart transplants)

(medicine) A heart transplant operation in which the donor heart is kept full of blood and continues to beat in a machine between donor and recipient.


phenacetin

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(pharmacology) A specific antipyretic drug, also called acetophenetidin, with the formula C₁₀H₁₃NO₂.


phenylketonuria

phenylketonuria (countable and uncountable, plural phenylketonurias)

/fɛnʌɪlkiːtəˈnjʊəɹɪə/

phenylalanine hydroxylase
phenylalanine hydroxylase

(medicine) A metabolic disorder in which individuals lack the liver enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) which is needed to metabolize the amino acid phenylalanine.


PAH

(pathology) Initialism of pulmonary arterial hypertension.

(medicine) Initialism of paradoxical adipose hyperplasia.


phonoreception

/ˌfəʊnə(ʊ)ɹɪˈsɛpʃn̩/

(physiology) The perception of sound by animals through specialized sense organs; hearing.


catholicon

catholicon (plural catholica or catholicons)

/kəˈθɒlɪkɒn/

/kəˈθɒlɪkən/

Late Middle English, via Medieval Latin from Ancient Greek καθολικόν (katholikón, “that which is universal”), the neuter substantive form of καθολικός (katholikós).


incontinence

en-noun

incontinence (countable and uncountable, plural incontinences)

From Middle English incontinence, from Old French incontinence, from Latin incontinentia.

The objective is to make life easier for male colleagues and customers with urinary incontinence.

2024 July 10, “Network News: 'Boys Need Bins' backed by GTR”, in RAIL, number 1013, page 23:

(urology) The inability of any of the physical organs to restrain discharges of their contents; involuntary discharge or evacuation (of urine or feces).


nitrous

From Middle French nitreux, and its source, Latin nitrōsus (“nitrose”). Doublet of nitroso. By surface analysis, nitro- + -ous.

(dentistry, automotive, informal) Nitrous oxide.


phytoalexin

(medicine) any of several classes of antibiotics produced by plants in response to microorganisms


repercussion

repercussion (countable and uncountable, plural repercussions)

/ˌɹiː.pəˈkʌʃ.ən/

/ˌɹɛ.pɚˈkʌʃ.ən/

From Middle French répercussion, from Latin repercussio (“rebounding; repercussion”), from repercutio (“cause to rebound, reflect, strike against”), from re- + percutio (“beat, strike”), from per- (“thoroughly”) + quatio (“shake”).

uder

(medicine) The subsidence of a tumour or eruption by the action of a repellent.

(obstetrics) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the foetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.


keloid

19th century, from French chéloïde, from Ancient Greek χηλή (khēlḗ, “hoof”) and -oid.

It gave her otherwise plain face a broken excitement and blue-blade threat like the keloid scar of the razored man who sometimes played checkers with her grandmother.

(pathology) A hard raised growth of scar tissue at the site of an injury.


keloid

en-verb

keloid (third-person singular simple present keloids, present participle keloiding, simple past and past participle keloided)

keloids (present singular third-person)
keloiding (participle present)
keloided (participle past)
keloided (past)

The scar on his neck from running through that plate glass on one of our licks has keloided smooth and shiny.

2013, Ann Pearlman, Colton Simpson, Inside the Crips: Life Inside L.A.'s Most Notorious Gang:

(pathology, intransitive) To form a keloid.


pneumatosis

(medicine) The abnormal accumulation of air or other gas in the body.


depletion

en-noun

depletion (countable and uncountable, plural depletions)

Borrowed from Latin depletio, depletionem, from depleō.

stimulated emission depletion microscope

stimulated emission depletion microscopy

(medicine, archaic) The act of relieving congestion or plethora, by purging, blood-letting, or reduction of the system by abstinence.


oxygen tent

(medicine) A canopy for the head and shoulders, or a similar enclosure for the whole body, within which air having a higher than normal supply of oxygen can be administered to a patient.

氧幕

canopy within which air having a higher than normal supply of oxygen can be administered to a patient


Entonox

(pharmacology) A mixture of nitrous oxide and oxygen used as an analgesic, especially during labour.


oxy

oxy (countable and uncountable, plural oxies)

One of the detectives, Sgt. Joseph Ballou, discovered that during a drug raid in 2012, Springfield cops had confiscated 51 oxycodone pills — the gold standard of prescription opioids. ¶ The oxies were turned over to Farak for analysis and she issued a certificate saying the pills were not illegal.

2017 July 2, Howie Carr, “Carr: Judge sees misconduct, AG sees none”, in Boston Herald:

(countable, uncountable, slang, pharmacology) Clipping of oxycodone, an opioid similar to heroin.


pinhead

The microcephalic idiot is an unfortunate with a "pinhead," sometimes exhibited as a "what's-it" in circus side-shows, whose mental age never goes beyond that of an imbecile.

1939, Amram Scheinfeld, Morton David Schweitzer, You and Heredity, Frederick A. Stokes Co., page 155:

Zip the What-Is-It was simply a Negro idiot. […] For half an hour at a time, David Belasco used to watch Zip at Coney Island. The producer insisted he saw signs of intelligence in the pinhead […]

1943, Oliver Ramsay Pilat, Sodom by the Sea: An Affectionate History of Coney Island, Garden City Publishing, page 187:

(slang, medicine) A human head that is unusually tapered or small, often due to microcephaly, or a person with that trait. Often promoted in freak shows as "human pinheads".


bodig

Only by degrees did it become clear to them, and him, that this was an organic malady, an all-too-familiar one, the bodig.

´1997, Oliver Sacks, The Island of the Colorblind

Often lumped with lytico owing to clinical, familial, and pathological associations, is the parkinsonism-dementia complex of Guam (PDCG), known locally as bodig; 40% of patients with bodig also have lytico. PDCG has its onset in middle[…]

2011 March 10, Carlo Colosimo, David E. Riley, Gregor K. Wenning, Handbook of Atypical Parkinsonism, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 108:

Lytico-Bodig disease
Lytico-Bodig disease

(medicine) A medical condition prevalent on Guam, or an aspect of Lytico-Bodig disease, which causes dementia.


plasmon

(genetics) All the genetic material in an organism.


perforation

perforation (countable and uncountable, plural perforations)

(medicine) An abnormal opening in an organ, such as a rupture.


fluoridate

en-verb

fluoridate (third-person singular simple present fluoridates, present participle fluoridating, simple past and past participle fluoridated)

fluoridates (present singular third-person)
fluoridating (participle present)
fluoridated (participle past)
fluoridated (past)

(chemistry, dentistry, transitive) To add fluoride to something, especially to drinking water in order to reduce tooth decay.


iatrochemistry

A parallel bid to read the body in terms of the new science came from iatrochemistry.

2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 53:

(chemistry, medicine) An early branch of chemistry, having roots in alchemy, that tried to provide chemical remedies to diseases; alternatively, the application of chemistry to medical theory.

iatrokemia

an early branch of chemistry that tried to provide chemical remedies to diseases


anesthetist

(American spelling, Canadian spelling, medicine) One who gives an anesthetic.


valley fever

(pathology) Coccidioidomycosis, a mammalian fungal disease caused by Coccidioides immitis or Coccidioides posadasii.


ciprofloxacin

From cy(clo)pro(pyl) + -floxacin (“nalidixic acid derivative”).

af

(pharmacology) A broad-spectrum fluoroquinolone antibiotic C₁₇H₁₈FN₃O₃ that is often administered in the form of its hydrochloride C₁₇H₁₈FN₃O₃·HCl and is effective especially against gram-negative bacteria.


trinucleotide

(genetics) a codon containing three nucleotides


palpation

en-noun

palpation (countable and uncountable, plural palpations)

(medicine) The act of feeling or pushing on various parts of a patient’s body to determine medical condition such as the normality of organs or the presence or absence of tumors, swelling, muscle tension, etc.


corniculum

Borrowed from Latin corniculum (“little horn”).

bor+

(anatomy, archaic) A small horn-like part or process.


silicosis

en-noun

silicosis (countable and uncountable, plural silicoses)

(pathology) A disease of the lungs caused by the inhalation of crystalline silica dust.


commissurotomy

/ˌkɒmɪʃəˈɹɒtəmi/

(medicine) The surgical division of a commissure or similar structure.


commissure

/ˈkɑm.əˌʃʊɹ/

From Latin commissura (“a joining or connecting together”), from commissus (passive perfect participle of committo (“I join, I connect”)) + -ura.

af

passive perfect participle of <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">committo</i> (“I join, I connect”)

...that round about the commissure of all our joints...

1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, J. Roberts, page 14:

(neuroanatomy) A band of nerve tissue connecting the hemispheres of the brain, the two sides of the spinal cord, etc.

There is a third inner eyelid, highly developed and of beautiful mechanism: this is the nictitating membrane, or "winker" (nictito, I wink), a delicate, elastic, translucent, pearly-white fold of the conjunctiva. While the other lids move vertically and have a horizontal commissure, the winker sweeps horizontally or obliquely across the ball, from the side next the beak to the opposite.

1884, Elliott Coues, “§ 4.—An Introduction to the Anatomy of Birds.”, in Key to North American Birds. […], 2nd edition, Boston, Mass.: Estes and Lauriat, →OCLC, part II (General Ornithology), page 180:

(anatomy) The line where the upper and lower lips or eyelids meet.

lipangulo

point where the upper and lower lips or eyelids join


nightstick fracture

en-noun

nightstick fracture (plural nightstick fractures)

(medicine) An isolated fracture of the ulna due to direct trauma to the forearm. The name refers to a situation in which a person raises an arm and exposes the medial aspect of the forearm in anticipation of an overhead blow.


restenosis

restenosis (countable and uncountable, plural restenoses)

/ˌɹiːstɪˈnəʊsɪs/

Marathe's wife was dying slowly of ventricular restenosis.

1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 126:

(pathology) The recurrence of stenosis, especially that of an artery.


stenosis

stenosis (countable and uncountable, plural stenoses)

From New Latin stenōsis, from Ancient Greek στένωσις (sténōsis, “narrowing”), from στενόω (stenóō, “to confine, to contract”) + -σις (-sis, nominal suffix), equivalent to steno- + -osis.

af

(medicine, pathology) An abnormal narrowing or stricture in a blood vessel or other tubular organ.


acyclovir

en-noun

acyclovir (countable and uncountable, plural acyclovirs)

(pharmacology) US and UK spelling of aciclovir.


adenoidal

en-adj

adenoidal (comparative more adenoidal, superlative most adenoidal)

more adenoidal (comparative)
most adenoidal (superlative)

(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the adenoids.


scarification

en-noun

scarification (countable and uncountable, plural scarifications)

/ˌskɛɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

From Old French scarificacion, from Late Latin scarificatio.

intradermal administration

which includes intradermal injection and scarifying forms

(medicine) A route of administration for some vaccinations and tests: rather than hypodermic injection, the site is inoculated intradermally not with any injection but rather only with small, shallow pricks or scratches; the needle is not hollow.


scur

(veterinary) A distorted horn, regrown after the disbudding operation of a goat, sheep, or cow.


myocarditis

myocarditis (countable and uncountable, plural myocardites or myocarditides or myocarditises)

myocardites (plural)
myocarditides (plural)
myocarditises (plural)

(pathology, cardiology) Inflammation of the myocardium.


atrioventricular

Coordinate term: ventriculoatrial (broadly synonymous; precisely differentiated regarding conduction pathways)

atrioventricular block; atrioventricular node; atrioventricular septum

(anatomy, medicine) Of the spatial relationship between the ventricles and the atria of the heart.

pitvar-kamrai

of the spatial relationship between the ventricles and the atria of the heart


SSS

sick sinus syndrome
sick sinus syndrome#English

(medicine) Initialism of sick sinus syndrome.

subclavian steal syndrome
subclavian steal syndrome#English

(medicine) Initialism of subclavian steal syndrome.


pontile

Latin pontilis (“relating to a bridge”).


esophagogastroduodenoscopy

esophagogastroduodenoscopy (countable and uncountable, plural esophagogastroduodenoscopies)

esophagogastroduodenoscopies (plural)
as EGD (abbreviation)

/ɪsɒfəɡəʊɡastɹəʊdjuːəʊdɪˈnɒskəpi/

From esophago- + gastro- + duodeno- + -scopy.

(medicine) upper gastrointestinal endoscopy


medulla oblongata

/məˈdʌlə ˌɒblɒŋˈɡɑːtə/

[məˈdʌlə ˌɔb.lɔŋˈɡɑːtə]

/məˈdulə ˌɑblɑŋˈɡɑtə/

[məˈdʉɫə ˌɑb.ɫɑŋˈɡɑɾə]

(neuroanatomy, anatomy) The lower portion of the brainstem.


endometrium

From endo- (“inner”) + Late Latin metrium (“womb”), from Ancient Greek μήτριον (mḗtrion, “of a mother”). Compare μήτρᾱ (mḗtrā, “womb”).

der

(anatomy) The mucous membrane that lines the uterus in mammals and in which fertilized eggs are implanted.


dermoplasty

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(surgery) The use of skin grafts in plastic surgery.


desaturation

en-noun

desaturation (countable and uncountable, plural desaturations)

/diːˌsætʃəˈɹeɪʃən/

/diːˌsætjəˈɹeɪʃən/

(medicine) a decrease in the level of oxygen saturation in a patient's haemoglobin


diathesis

diathesis (countable and uncountable, plural diatheses)

/daɪˈæθəsɪs/

Borrowed from New Latin diathesis, from Ancient Greek διάθεσις (diáthesis, “state, condition”), from διατίθημι (diatíthēmi, “to arrange”).

der

Medical materialism seems indeed a good appellation for the too simple-minded system of thought which we are considering. […] All such mental over-tensions, it says, are, when you come to the bottom of the matter, mere affairs of diathesis (auto-intoxications most probably), due to the perverted action of various glands which physiology will yet discover.

1902, William James, “Lecture I”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:

When a coal miner developed the eye disease nystagmus, was this to be diagnosed as due to work conditions or to an inherent constitutional diathesis?

1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 611:

(medicine) A hereditary or constitutional predisposition to a disease or other disorder.


dysgenic

en-adj

dysgenic (comparative more dysgenic, superlative most dysgenic)

more dysgenic (comparative)
most dysgenic (superlative)

From dys- + -genic, produced from New Latin dys- from Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) and γένος (génos, “offspring”).

(genetics, medicine) Of or relating to, or causing degeneration or deterioration in offspring.

(genetics, medicine) Of or relating to dysgenics.


perioscope

(medicine, dentistry) A form of endoscope used to explore and visualize the periodontal pocket, producing an image of a diseased tooth's root.


blepharospasm

en-noun

blepharospasm (countable and uncountable, plural blepharospasms)

/ˈblɛfəɹəʊˌspæzəm/

(medicine) A physiological condition characterized by recurring involuntary twitches or closing of the eyelids.


doxycycline

When his symptoms didnʼt improve, he was admitted to a local hospital and given doxycycline, a drug for tick-bite infections.

2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 373:

broad-spectrum antibiotic
broad-spectrum antibiotic

(pharmacology) A broad-spectrum antibiotic C₂₂H₂₄N₂O₈ of the tetracycline class, which has a long half-life in the body and used orally to treat various bacterial infections.


dracunculiasis

(medicine) an infection caused by an infestation of the parasite Dracunculus medinensis


dyslipidemia

dyslipidemia (countable and uncountable, plural dyslipidemias)

(medicine) an imbalance of lipids (especially cholesterol) in the blood; hypercholesterolemia


hypercholesterolemia

hypercholesterolemia (countable and uncountable, plural hypercholesterolemias)

An inherited predisposition to heart disease, called familial hypercholesterolaemia, results from a rare ‘spelling change’ in the gene for cholesterol receptors.

1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 260:

(medicine) An excess of cholesterol in the blood.


allergology

allergology (usually uncountable, plural allergologies)

(medicine) The study of the causes and treatment of allergies.

alergologia

the study of the causes and treatment of allergies


irritability

irritability (countable and uncountable, plural irritabilities)

/ˌɪɹɪtəˈbɪlɪti/

We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibres of plants.

1800, Erasmus Darwin, Phytologia, Or the Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening:

There is growth only in plants; but there is irritability, or, a better word, instinctivity, in insects.

1830 September 23, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Logic”, in H[enry] N[elson] C[oleridge], editor, Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], published 1835, →OCLC, page 111:

(physiology) A natural susceptibility, characteristic of all living organisms, tissues, and cells, to the influence of certain stimuli, response being manifested in a variety of ways.

(medicine) A condition of morbid excitability of an organ or part of the body; undue susceptibility to the influence of stimuli.


irradiate

en-verb

irradiate (third-person singular simple present irradiates, present participle irradiating, simple past and past participle irradiated)

irradiates (present singular third-person)
irradiating (participle present)
irradiated (participle past)
irradiated (past)
irradiate (infinitive)

/ɪˈɹeɪdɪeɪt/

From Middle English irradiate (“illuminated, shining”) (more at etymology 1), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

облъчвам

to apply radiation other than visible light to (someone or something); to treat (food) with ionizing radiation to destroy pathogens; to treat (a patient, or a cancerous growth or tumour) with radiation

(technology) To apply radiation other than visible light to (someone or something).

(medicine) To treat (a patient, or a cancerous growth or tumour) with radiation.


ARP

en-noun

ARP (countable and uncountable, plural ARPs)

absolute refractory period
w:absolute refractory period

(countable, physiology) Initialism of absolute refractory period.


MK

(sexuality, anatomy, slang) Initialism of mooseknuckle.


congenic

(genetics) (of different strains of an organism) That are genetically identical except for a variation in a limited genetic region or locus


DNA sequence

(genetics) The string of base pairs (adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine) which, when arranged in triplets to form codons, create a DNA string which encodes polypeptides.


imperforate

imperforate anus

imperforate hymen

Not perforated, as:
(medicine) Synonym of atretic


psychotomimetic

(pharmacology) That induces a temporary state of altered perception and symptoms similar to those of psychosis (such as hallucinations).


psychotomimetic

(pharmacology) Any psychotomimetic drug, such as LSD.


obnubilation

obnubilation (countable and uncountable, plural obnubilations)

1753 Dec. 17th, John Rutty, A Spiritual Diary and Soliloquies in The Life of Samuel Johnſon, LL.D. (1791), aut. James Boswell, vol. II, “1777. Ætat. 68.”, p. 155

An hypochondriack obnubilation from wind and indigeſtion.

Dimness or obnubilation of sight.

1803, Thomas Beddoes, Hygëia III, essay ix, p. 198

At the instant of the accident the patient lost consciousness for several hours, and afterwards lay for several days in a state of torpor or obnubilation.

1888 May, G.S. Hall (ed.), The American Journal of Psychology I, № 3, “Ueber die therapeutische Verwendung der Hypnose by Richard Schulz” (review), p. 519

Obnubilaʹtion…A dazzling of the eyes without giddiness, so that objects seem to be seen through a cloud, as in threatened fainting.

1892, H. Power and L.W. Sedgwick, The New Sydenham Society’s Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences IV, s.v. “Obnubilaʹtion”

Obnubilations, comas and stupors, each with its clinical and electroencephalographic characteristics.

1960 Jun. 27th–29th, Henri Fischgold and Betty A. Schwartz, “A clinical, electroencephalographic and polygraphic study of sleep in the human adult” in the Ciba Foundation Symposium on “The Nature of Sleep”, eds. G.E.W. Wolstenholme and M. O’Connor, p. 235

After 2 weeks of treatment, symptoms of dyspnea, morning headaches, and morning obnubilation improved significantly…in both groups of patients after NIPPV but not with oxygen.

1997 Jul., Juan F. Masa et al., “Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation and Not Oxygen May Prevent Overt Ventilatory Failure in Patients With Chest Wall Diseases” in Chest CXII, № 1, Abstract, p. 207

(medicine, specifically) Obscuration or clouding of the mind or faculties.

obskuraatio

medicine: obscuration or clouding of the mind or faculties


paranasal sinus

paranasal sinus (plural paranasal sinuses)

(anatomy) Any of a number of air-filled spaces, or sinuses, within the bones of the skull and face.


goniometer

(medicine) An arthrometer (device for measuring the arc or range of mobility of a joint).


DPM

DPM (countable and uncountable, plural DPMs)

(medicine, post-nominal letters) Initialism of doctor of podiatric medicine.


chlorosis

chlorosis (countable and uncountable, plural chloroses)

From international scientific vocabulary, from New Latin; by surface analysis, chlor- + -osis, where chlor- in this instance refers to pale yellow-green colorations and not to chlorine.

Chlorosis (medicine)
Chlorosis (plant disorder)

jaundice

also involves pale and yellowish complexions

The effects of hemoglobin in anemia and chlorosis, and even in tuberculosis, are due to its triple action; it acts opotherapeutically, through the blood oxydases, which it contains when properly prepared.

1915, “Hemoglobin in Anemia”, in American Medicine, volume 21, page 22:

(medicine, countable) An anaemia, due to deficiency of iron, characterized by a yellow-green coloration of the skin.

en:yellowing of plants from chlorophyll disturbances

(botany, phytopathology, uncountable) A yellowing of plant tissue due to loss or absence of chlorophyll.


conservative treatment

conservative treatment (plural conservative treatments)

Operative treatment should be reserved for those patients in whom conservative treatment has failed and who are motivated with regard to sports.

2000, G. Puddu et al., “Achilles Tendon Injuries”, in The Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine, →ISBN, page 200:

For the treatment of humeral shaft fractures, conservative treatment still competes with the operative approach to a much greater degree than is the case for fractures of the long bones of the lower extremity.

2006, J. Franke, “Intramedullary Nailing of Humeral Shaft Fractures”, in Practice of Intramedullary Locked Nails: New Developments in Techniques and Applications, →ISBN, page 179:

Conservative treatment could also include short-arm casting with the fingers and thumb free for 2-6 weeks.

2007, Thomas E. Hyde, Marianne S. Gengenbach, Conservative Management of Sports Injuries, →ISBN, page 597:

(medicine) A treatment that does not include any operation or intervention.


globose

en-adj

globose (comparative more globose, superlative most globose)

more globose (comparative)
most globose (superlative)

From Latin globosus (“round as a ball, spherical, globular”).

uder

(anatomy or botany) Having a globular form.


choroid

From New Latin choroides, from Ancient Greek χοροειδής (khoroeidḗs, alteration of χοριοειδής (khorioeidḗs, “like the afterbirth”)), from χόριον (khórion, “membrane that encloses the fetus in the womb, afterbirth”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-like”).

der

alteration of <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc">χοριοειδής</i> (khorioeidḗs, “like the afterbirth”)

af

choroid plexus

(anatomy) Resembling the chorion, particularly in containing many blood vessels.


choroid

(anatomy) The pigmented vascular layer of the eyeball between the retina and the sclera.


sulcus

Borrowed from Latin sulcus (“a furrow made by a plow”). Doublet of sullow ("plough").

bor

The sulci and gyri are the grooves and ridges, respectively.

The Union’s soft latex-polymer roof is cerebrally domed and a cloudy piamater pink except in spots where it’s eroded down to pasty gray, and everywhere textured, the bulging rooftop, with sulci and bulbous convolutions.

1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 186:

The largest sulcus, the longitudinal fissure, divides the brain into left and right hemispheres.

1999, Thomas C. Pritchard, Kevin D. Alloway, Medical Neuroscience, page 55:

Unlike most other sulci, the lateral sulcus is very deep.

2006, Inderbir Singh, Textbook of Human Neuroanatomy, 7th edition, page 72:

The large surface area of the human cerebral cortex results in a pattern of gyri and sulci.

2014, John Kiernan, Raj Rajakumar, Barr's The Human Nervous System: An Anatomical Viewpoint, 10th edition, page 213:

(anatomy) A furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue, especially that marking the convolutions of the surface of the brain.


appendectomy

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(surgery) The surgical procedure for the removal of the vermiform appendix.

虫垂切除術

ちゅうすいせつじょじゅつ

盲腸炎手術

もうちょうえんしゅじゅつ


cerebral palsy

en-noun

cerebral palsy (countable and uncountable, plural cerebral palsies)

(neurology, pathology) A group of non-progressive, non-contagious conditions, caused by brain damage before birth or during infancy, characterized by impairment of muscular coordination.


anthracycline

(pharmacology) any of a class of antibiotic, chemotherapeutic agents used to treat cancer


adjuvant therapy

adjuvant therapy (countable and uncountable, plural adjuvant therapies)

(medicine) any secondary treatment for cancer (such as chemotherapy) given after the primary treatment (such as surgery) in order to remove residual microscopic disease


neoadjuvant therapy

neoadjuvant therapy (countable and uncountable, plural neoadjuvant therapies)

(medicine) any initial treatment for cancer (such as chemotherapy) that shrinks a tumor prior to surgery


It has similar structure to human epidermal growth factor receptor, or HER. Initialism of Human Epidermal growth factor Receptor 2.

init of

(oncology) Receptor which is the target for the drug trastuzumab in chemotherapy.


keratosis

en-noun

keratosis (countable and uncountable, plural keratoses)

/ˌkɛɹəˈtəʊsɪs/

/ˌkɛɹəˈtoʊsɪs/

(medicine) The condition of having keratin growing on the skin.


actinic keratosis

actinic keratosis (plural actinic keratoses)

Approximately 1:1000 actinic keratoses per year will develop into a squamous cell carcinoma (28). Risk factors for the development of actinic keratosis include ease of sunburning and cumulative sun exposure (30).

2001, Steven M. Ruhoy, Alan R. Silverman, “26: Pathology of Selected Skin Lesions of the Head and Neck: II: Actinic Keratosis”, in Leon Barnes, editor, Surgical Pathology of the Head and Neck, volume 3, page 1797:

The term actinic keratosis has traditionally been used in both human and veterinary literature; however solar keratosis is a more accurate term because these lesions are associated with chronic exposure to solar radiation.[…]American Staffordshire terriers, beagles, basset hounds, bull terriers and dalmatians are reported to be at increased risk of developing actinic keratoses.

2002, Randall C. Thomas, Leslie R. Fox, “Chapter 32: Tumors of the Skin and Subcutis”, in Wallace B. Morrison, editor, Cancer in Dogs and Cats: Medical and Surgical Management, page 472:

Actinic keratoses occur in sun-exposed areas: the face, dorsum of the hands and forearms, neck, upper back, and chest.[…]An actinic keratosis is rough, scaling, and ill marginated; it is often easier felt than seen.

2013, James G. Marks Jr., Jeffrey J. Miller, Lookingbill and Marks' Principles of Dermatology, 5th edition, page 43:

(medicine, pathology, dermatology) A potentially precancerous skin lesion, typically on the upper portion of the head, characterized by discolored, thickened or scaly growths of keratin and caused by repeated exposure to ultraviolet light, such as from sunlight or tanning beds.

تقران سفعي/تقرن سفعي

skin lesion characterized by discolored, thickened growths of keratin


gastropexy

gastropexy (countable and uncountable, plural gastropexies)

(surgery) The surgical fixation of the stomach to the abdominal wall or diaphragm.


regulator

(genetics) A gene involved in controlling the expression of one or more other genes.


LAMP

LAMP (countable and uncountable, plural LAMPs)

(genetics) Acronym of loop-mediated isothermal amplification.

(cytology) Acronym of lysosome-associated membrane glycoprotein.


vaginal fluid

vaginal fluid (countable and uncountable, plural vaginal fluids)

(medicine) Any liquid discharge from a vagina.


intravenously

(medicine) In an intravenous manner; by means of intravenous injection.


inlay

en-verb

inlay (third-person singular simple present inlays, present participle inlaying, simple past and past participle inlaid)

inlays (present singular third-person)
inlaying (participle present)
inlaid (participle past)
inlaid (past)

Porcelain inlaying is a grand thing in certain cases, and it is much to be regretted that the present existing circumstances do not warrant its being used more extensively.

1895, Benjamin Holliday Catching, Catching's Compendium of Practical Dentistry - Volume 5, page 159:

It is not strange that this principle of inlaying should occur to those men years ago, for it was one of the most ancient of arts and it had been brought well-nigh to perfection. The thought of restoring broken surface in teeth, as was being done in gold and wood was ever present with them.

1907, The Pacific Dental Gazette - Volume 15, page 759:

It is hard to tell whether it was the solid block inlay idea of itself, or else something to help cement to be retained in a cavity, that has brought about inlaying of cavities;

1913, The Practical Manual of Dental Casting, Being the Recorded Experiences of Many Able and Eminent Men in the Dental Profession:

They felt with a prophetic instinct that sometime and somewhere these obstacles would be removed, that difficulties apparently unsurmountable would be overcome, and that the principle of inlaying teeth would become recognized as good practice in restoring broken-down tooth tissues.

1926, The Dental Craftsman - Volume 1, page 12:

(dentistry) To place an inlay in a tooth.


inlay

(dentistry) A filling for a tooth, made of ceramic or gold to fit the cavity and shape of tooth and cemented into place.


interventionism

en-noun

interventionism (countable and uncountable, plural interventionisms)

From French interventionnisme. By surface analysis, intervention + -ism.

surf

(medicine) The medical practice of trying to prolong someone's life.


whorl

(anatomy) Any volution, as for example in the human ear or fingerprint.


instep

(anatomy) The arched part of the top of the foot between the toes and the ankle.


dehiscent

en-adj

dehiscent (comparative more dehiscent, superlative most dehiscent)

more dehiscent (comparative)
most dehiscent (superlative)

From Latin dehiscentem, present participle of dehiscō (“I divide, split open, gape”), from hiscō (“I yawn, gape”).

(medicine) Of or pertaining to dehiscence, i.e., a rupture, as with a surgical wound opening up, often with a flow of serous fluid

avo-

medicine: of or pertaining to dehiscence


Jacksonian seizure

en-noun

Jacksonian seizure (plural Jacksonian seizures)

Eponym, from John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist.

(medicine) A seizure characteristic of certain forms of epilepsy.


neurosurgery

neurosurgery (countable and uncountable, plural neurosurgeries)

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(neurology, surgery, uncountable) The surgical discipline focused on treating those central and peripheral nervous system diseases.

neurocirurgia

surgical discipline focused on treating the nervous systems

(neurology, surgery, countable) Any surgical procedure performed on the nervous system, especially the brain.


hemimegaloencephaly

(pathology) A condition where one hemisphere of the brain grows faster or larger than the other, causing neurological impairment.


SDH

SDH (countable and uncountable, plural SDHs)

subdural hematoma
subdural hematoma#English

(medicine) Initialism of subdural hematoma.


necrotic

en-adj

necrotic (comparative more necrotic, superlative most necrotic)

more necrotic (comparative)
most necrotic (superlative)

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(pathology) Of or pertaining to necrosis, particularly of tissue.


nevus

Most birthmarks and moles fall into the category of nevi.

(anatomy) Any of a number of different, usually benign, pigmented, raised or otherwise abnormal lesions of the skin.


ophthalmic

Borrowed from Latin ophthalmicus, from Ancient Greek ὀφθᾰλμῐκός (ophthălmĭkós, “of or for the eyes”), from ὀφθᾰλμός (ophthălmós, “eye”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, “-ic”, adjectival suffix).

af

Eyedrops are an ophthalmic solution.

The ophthalmic surgeon attends Tuesdays and Saturdays, at half-past one.

1853 September 17, “Metropolitan Hospitals & Medical Schools”, in The Lancet, volume 62, number 1568, →DOI, page 268:

(medicine) Of or pertaining to the eyes.


pellagra

en-noun

pellagra (countable and uncountable, plural pellagras)

From Lombard pellagra, probably from Latin pellis (“skin”) + Lombard -agra (“sour”).

In 1755 the French physician Gaspar Casal (1680–1759) published an account of pellagra, then a new disease in Spain.

1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 531:

Mixing the alkali into the recipe in the right way chemically releases the otherwise unavailable niacin in the corn, which stops pellagra in its tracks, and allowed corn-based agricultural populations to grow and spread.

2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 7, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:

(pathology) A disease characterised by skin lesions and mental confusion, primarily caused by a niacin deficiency.


intussusception

intussusception (countable and uncountable, plural intussusceptions)

Borrowed from French intussusception, or directly from Latin intussusceptiō, from intus (“within”) + susceptiō (“susception”).

(medicine) The invagination of one portion of a tubular anatomical structure (especially intestines or blood vessels) within the next.


breakbone fever

Coinage attributed to Benjamin Rush because of the symptoms of myalgia and arthralgia.


blackhead

blackhead (countable and uncountable, plural blackheads)

Coordinate term: whitehead

See there! A son is born
And we pronounce him fit to fight
There are blackheads on his shoulders
And he pees himself in the night.

1972, “Thick As A Brick”, Ian Anderson (lyrics), performed by Jethro Tull:

Wallace sees a cluster of tiny blackheads at the corner of his nose.

2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 215:

(countable, medicine) A comedo, a skin blemish, a type of acne vulgaris, where a pore becomes clogged with a dark, hard, cheesy keratin-filled substance forming a hard black "head" on the skin's surface.


invaginate

en-verb

invaginate (third-person singular simple present invaginates, present participle invaginating, simple past and past participle invaginated)

invaginates (present singular third-person)
invaginating (participle present)
invaginated (participle past)
invaginated (past)

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From Medieval Latin invāgīnātus, past participle of Medieval Latin invāgīnāre, from in- + vāgīna (“sheath”).

(medicine, surgery) To fold up or enclose into a sheath-like or pouch-like structure, either naturally or as part of a surgical procedure.

(medicine) To fold inward to create a hollow space where none had existed, as with a gastrula forming from a blastula.


umbi

(medicine, colloquial) Short for umbilicus.


umbi

(medicine, colloquial) Short for umbilical.


aptamer

From Latin aptus (“apt, proper”) + -mer (from Ancient Greek μέρος (méros, “part, portion”); compare mero-).

uder

Aptamers are oligomers of RNA or DNA that spontaneously fold into specific three-dimensional shapes that can bind defined targets. The specificity of the shape of the binding site arises from the base sequence of the aptamer, which determines the base-pairing pattern of the oligomer.

2005, (US) National Research Council, Sensor Systems for Biological Agent Attacks, page 117:

2009, Corinne Ravelet, Eric Peyrin, Chapter 10: Aptamers in Affinity Separations: Stationary Separation, Yingfu Li, Yi Lu (editors), Functional Nucleic Acids for Analytical Applications, page 271,
The use of DNA or RNA aptamers as tools in analytical chemistry is a very promising field of research because of their capabilities to bind specifically the target molecules with an affinity similar to that of antibodies.

The field of aptamer research is also more targeted, with many more catalytic aptamers being examined rather than for binding alone.

2010, Dabid Loakes, “Nucleotides an Nucleic Acids; Oligo- and Polynucleotides”, in D. W. Allen, J. C. Tebby, John C. Tebby, David Loakes, editors, Organophosphorus Chemistry, page 144:

2015, Caroli J et al, "APTANI: a computational tool to select aptamers through sequence-structure motif analysis of HT-SELEX data", Bioinformatics, 32 (2): 161-164, "3 Results".
To test APTANI performances and validate its findings, we analyzed a sequence library corresponding to an HT-SELEX experiment designed to isolate aptamers specific for murine IL4Ra (Roth et al., 2012).

(biochemistry, genetics) Any subsequence of nucleic acid or protein, selected from a large random sequence-pool, used to bind to a specific target molecule.

aptameeri

any subsequence of nucleic acid or protein used to bind to a specific target molecule


VR

en-noun

VR (countable and uncountable, plural VRs)


frameshift mutation

frameshift mutation (countable and uncountable, plural frameshift mutations)

(genetics) A genetic mutation that either inserts or deletes a number of nucleotides that is not divisible by three (i.e., a non-integer number of codons), altering the reading frame of the portion of the gene downstream of the mutation and causing it to code for a completely different protein sequence.


polytrauma

polytrauma (countable and uncountable, plural polytraumas)

(emergency medicine) The condition of a person who has been subjected to multiple traumatic injuries.


bougie

Borrowed from French bougie (“wax candle”), after the Algerian city Bougie (Béjaïa), and the tapered, hand-dipped candles it made. The medical instruments were originally made from waxed linen.

"There, as my lord, with achromatic glass, / "O'erlooks St. James's Park, and on the grass, / "Beneath his mansion's half-closed window spies / "Two crouching urchins' gross obscenities, / "He turns his eager gaze, adjusts the screw, / "And brings their unwashed nudities in view. / "That spot, concealed by two o'er hanging hills, / "Foul sweat and fœtid excrement distils, / "Yet frowsy, there the pipe-clayed soldier sports, / "And bishops hold episcopalian courts. / "'Tis there the Bath empiric's finger guides, / "The oiled bougie ; and as the dildo slides / "Besmeared, to meet last night's descending meal, / "Oft makes the strictures he pretends to heal.

1866, “Don Leon”, in Don Leon ; A Poem by the Late Lord Byron, Author of Childe Harold, Don Juan, &c., &c. and forming part of the private journal of His Lordship, supposed to have been entirely destoyed by Thos. Moore. To which is added Leon to Annabella; An epistle from Lord Byron to Lady Byron. (Poetry), →OCLC, pages 44, 51–52:

2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 12,
I was not too sure, as a child, what doctors "did," and glimpses of catheters and bougies in their kidney dishes, retractors and speculums, rubber gloves, catgut thread, and forecepts - all this, I think, rather frightened me, though it fascinated me too.

(medicine) A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical structure, or to dilate such a structure, as with an esophageal bougie.


phosphorus cachexia

(medicine) a wasting disease caused by exposure to phosphorus


aseptic technique

(medicine) The medical practice of maintaining sterility whenever addressing a wound or performing any kind of surgery, to prevent infection.


antiserum

antiserum (countable and uncountable, plural antiserums or antisera)

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The polyclonal antibodies that Protherics had developed were based on the long established process for making antiserum by raising and extracting antibodies from animals exposed to antigens, rather than through monoclonal antibody technology; […]

2016, Geoffrey Owen, Michael M. Hopkins, “Investors Retreat”, in Science, the State, and the City: Britain’s Struggle to Succeed in Biotechnology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 97:

(medicine) A serum prepared from human or animal sources containing antibodies able to counter certain diseases or toxins.


antivenin

From French antivenin (“antivenom”), from anti- + venin (“venom”), popularized by Albert Calmette & al.'s 1894 work creating serums to treat snakebites. Equivalent to anti- + venin (“venom; biochemical toxin found in certain snakes”). Doublet of antivenom and antivenene.

prefix

(medicine) Synonym of antivenom, (now) particularly for snakebites containing venin.


abdominoplasty

en-noun

abdominoplasty (countable and uncountable, plural abdominoplasties)

From abdomino- (“abdomen”) + -plasty (“plastic surgery”).

confix

(surgery, uncountable) The surgical removal of excess flesh from the abdomen, usually for cosmetic reasons.


autoimmunity

en-noun

autoimmunity (countable and uncountable, plural autoimmunities)

This can be demonstrated in NOD mice in which a point mutation in the autoimmune regulator (Aire) gene results in the reduced expression of P0 in the thymus and a concomitant increase of P0 specific T cells in the periphery. 107 Similarly, autoimmunity is shifted towards the peripheral nerve in another NOD model deficient for isoforms of ICAM-1. 108 Altered expression of ICAM-1 on thymic epithelial cells transforms selection of T cells from a diabetogenic into a neuritogenic repertoire. 108 Studies such as these highlight the critical role of regulatory mechanisms in maintaining immune homeostasis and the impact that changes to regulation can have on the development of disease.

2015 February 12, Emily K Mathey et al., “Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy: from pathology to phenotype”, in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, volume 86, →DOI:

Iberdomide, a cereblon modulator promoting degradation of the transcription factors Ikaros and Aiolos, which affect leukocyte development and autoimmunity, is being evaluated for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).

2022 March 17, Joan T. Merrill, Victoria P. Werth, Richard Furie et al., “Phase 2 Trial of Iberdomide in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 386, number 11, →DOI, page 1034:

(pathology, immunology) The condition where one's immune system attacks one's own tissues, i.e., an autoimmune disorder.

autoimmunitat

condition where the immune system attacks the body's own tissues


autoimmune

/ˌɔːtəʊɪˈmjuːn/

(pathology, immunology) Of or pertaining to autoimmunity.


GHB

(organic chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology) Initialism of gamma-hydroxybutyrate, often used as a date rape drug.


mesotherapy

mesotherapy (usually uncountable, plural mesotherapies)

alternative medicine
alternative medicine

(alternative medicine) Any treatment that involves the injection of vitamins or other substances into the mesoderm of the skin


epidemiologist

In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.”

2013 January 7, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, United States: Sigma Xi, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-02-09, page 64:

(epidemiology) A scientist (often a medical doctor) who specializes in epidemiology.

համաճարակաբան

scientist who specializes in epidemiology


hemorrhoid

From Middle English emerowdes, emeroides, emeroydez, from Old French emorroides, from Latin haemorrhoidae, from Ancient Greek αἱμορροΐς (haimorrhoḯs),
a feminine adjective from αἱμόρροος (haimórrhoos, “flowing with blood”), from αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) and the root of ῥέω (rhéō, “flow”). Doublet of emerod.

(pathology, often in the plural) An engorged, dilated and easily broken varicosity in the perianal area, often accompanied by intense itching and throbbing pain: piles.


ramus

(anatomy) A bony projection, particularly of the jaw, but also in the groin area, both subject to the maturing process of symphysis.


symphysis

(anatomy) The process of two originally separate bones growing together as the subject matures, as with the pubic bones or lower jawbones in humans.

(anatomy) A place where two bones are closely joined in the median plane of the body, either forming an immovable joint (as between the pubic bones in the center of the pelvis) or completely fused (as at the midline of the lower jaw).

(medicine) A line, discernable on an X-ray, showing such fusion.

(anatomy) The cartilaginous material that adjoins and facilitates the junction of such bones, without a synovial membrane.


synovium

From false singular of New Latin synovia (“synovial fluid”).

synovial membrane
synovial membrane#English

(anatomy) Alternative form of synovial membrane.


intima

the intima of a blood vessel

(anatomy) The innermost part of an anatomical structure, particularly a tubular one


stade

From Latin stadium, from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion), a 600-foot racetrack, a distance of 600 Greek feet. Cognate with French stade. Doublet of stadium, stadion, and estadio.

doublet

A stage of progress
(medicine, obsolete) of a disease.


radiation therapy

(medicine) The use of ionizing radiation to treat disease, especially cancer.


inion

From Ancient Greek ἰνίον (iníon, “occipital bone; back of the head”). Compare -ion (“anthropometric landmark”).

der

(anatomy) A small protuberance on the external surface of the back of the skull near the neck; the external occipital protuberance.


pharmacologist

/ˌfɑɹməˈkɒləd͡ʒɪst/

From pharmacology + -ist.
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(pharmacology) A student of pharmacology; one versed in the science of pharmacology.

farmakoloog

student of or one who is versed in pharmacology


souffle

the uterine souffle heard over the pregnant uterus

(medicine) A murmuring or blowing sound.


obtunded

en-adj

obtunded (comparative more obtunded, superlative most obtunded)

more obtunded (comparative)
most obtunded (superlative)

(medicine) Far from alert or oriented to time and space, and exhibiting other signs of being confused, a state just short of frank delirium.


papilla

Borrowed from Latin papilla (“a nipple, teat”).

(anatomy) A nipple-like protuberance on a part or organ of the body.

A vascular process of connective tissue extending into and nourishing the root of a hair, feather, or developing tooth.

Any of the vascular protuberances of the dermal layer of the skin extending into the epidermal layer and often containing tactile corpuscles.

Any of the small protuberances on the upper surface of the tongue often containing taste buds.


tibial

tibial plateau

(anatomy) Of or pertaining to a tibia or a structure associated with a tibia.


tonsillectomy

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(surgery) The surgical removal of the tonsils, especially the palatine tonsils. Frequently accompanied by an adenoidectomy.

扁桃摘出術

へんとうてきしゅつじゅつ

扁桃腺摘出術

へんとうせんてきしゅつじゅつ


stomach lining

(anatomy) A layer of tissue on the inside of stomach.


vital signs

Read between the lines / What's fucked up, and everything's alright / Check my vital signs / To know I'm still alive, and I walk alone

2004, Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tré Cool, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”, in American Idiot, performed by Green Day:

(medicine) A set of measurements of a patient's condition taken regularly to assess the state of bodily functions: CSM, skin signs, lung sounds, temperature, pulse, blood pressure, and respiration.


radioactive tracer

en-noun

radioactive tracer (plural radioactive tracers)

(physics, chemistry, medicine) A radioactive isotope which, when injected into a chemically similar substance, or artificially attached to a biological or physical system, can be traced by radiation detection devices.


kanamycin

kanamycin (countable and uncountable, plural kanamycins)

From (Streptomyces) kana(myceticus) + -mycin (“antibiotic produced from a Streptomyces strain”).

af

(pharmacology) A broad-spectrum aminoglycoside antibiotic from a Japanese soil streptomyces (Streptomyces kanamyceticus), used to treat severe bacterial infections and tuberculosis.


smoking stool syndrome

(medicine) A symptom of severe phosphorus poisoning in which stools (feces) laden with phosphorus are passed.


vitamin A acid

(organic chemistry, pharmacology, biochemistry) Synonym of retinoic acid


stigmatic

en-adj

stigmatic (comparative more stigmatic, superlative most stigmatic)

more stigmatic (comparative)
most stigmatic (superlative)

(botany, anatomy) Having a stigma or stigmata.


precancerous

(oncology) Of or pertaining to growth that is likely to develop into cancer

prekancerózní

of or pertaining to growth that is likely to develop into cancer


zomotherapy

From Ancient Greek ζωμός (zōmós, “meat-soup”) + therapy.

af

It seems that in the later stages, zomotherapy is dangerous, the muscle plasma is not tolerated, this being probably due to the fact that the liver functions are insufficient, […]

1902, The Year Book of Drug Therapy, page 145:

(medicine, historical) A regimen of medical treatment that involves prescribing a diet of raw meat in order to fight a disease.


heterogenous

(genetics) derived from a different individual or species


screening

en-noun

screening (countable and uncountable, plural screenings)

→ German: Screening

→ Spanish: screening

due diligence

performing the work needed to uncover latent problems

(by extension, uncountable) The examination of any material or persons to detect problems through any of various testing, checking, or filtering processes, as:

(medicine) Identifying cases of a disease in a population of asymptomatic persons.

скрининг

medicine: method to identify a disease in a non-symptomatic population


wig out

en-verb

wig out (third-person singular simple present wigs out, present participle wigging out, simple past and past participle wigged out)

wigs out (present singular third-person)
wigging out (participle present)
wigged out (participle past)
wigged out (past)

Compare freak out, etc., and flip one's wig.

(drugs, slang, intransitive) To behave in an extremely erratic or irrational manner; to lose one's mind.