English dictionary of medical terms (78)

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[Multilingual]No:1540 - rhonchus
(L.; Gr. rhonchos a snoring sound) a rattling in the throat; also a dry, coarse rale in the bronchial tubes, due to a partial obstruction.
[Multilingual]No:1541 - rickets
(thought to be a corruption of Gr. rhachitis a spinal complaint) a condition caused by deficiency of vitamin D, especially in infancy and childhood, with disturbance of normal ossification. The disease is marked by bending and distortion of the bones under muscular action, by the formation of nodular enlargements on the ends and sides of the bones, by delayed closure of the fontanelles, pain in the muscles, and sweating of the head. Vitamin D and sunlight together with an adequate diet are curative, provided that the parathyroid glands are functioning properly.
[Multilingual]No:1542 - rigidity
(L. rigiditas; rigidus stiff) stiffness or inflexibility, chiefly that which is abnormal or morbid; rigor.
[Multilingual]No:1543 - risk factor
a clearly defined occurrence or characteristic that has been associated with the increased rate of a subsequently occurring disease
[Multilingual]No:1544 - risk patient
patient who is at risk, because of his/her behaviour or because of the type of person he/she is.
[Multilingual]No:1545 - routinely
usual, habitual, regular
[Multilingual]No:1546 - rubella
(L., from rubellus reddish, from ruber red) an acute, usually benign, infectious disease caused by a togavirus and most often affecting children and nonimmune young adults, in which the virus enters the respiratory tract via droplet nuclei and spreads to the lymphatic system. It is characterized by a slight cold, sore throat, and fever, followed by enlargement of the postauricular, suboccipital, and cervical lymph nodes, and the appearances of a fine pink rash that begins on the head and spreads to become generalized. Called also German measles, roetln, röteln, and three-day measles, and rubeola in French and Spanish.
[Multilingual]No:1547 - rupture
1. forcible tearing or disruption of tissue. 2. a hernia.
[Multilingual]No:1548 - salicylism
a group of commonly occurring toxic effects of excessive dosage with salicylic acid or its salts, usually marked by tinnitus, nausea, and vomiting.
[Multilingual]No:1549 - saline
(L. salinus; sal salt) salty; of the nature of a salt; containing a salt or salts.
[Multilingual]No:1550 - salivation
(L. salivatio) 1. the secretion of saliva. 2. ptyalism (= excessive flow of saliva).
[Multilingual]No:1551 - salpingitis
(salpingo- + itis inflammation) 1. inflammation of the uterine tube. 2. inflammation of the auditory tube.
[Multilingual]No:1552 - saluric
(MISPRINT! replace by: saluretic.) No:1552 - saluretic pertaining to, characterized by, or promoting saluresis (= the excretion of sodium and chloride ions in the urine).
[Multilingual]No:1553 - saprophyte
(sapro- + Gr. phyton plant) a saprophytic (= whose nutrition involves uptake of dissolved organic material from decaying plant or animal matter) organism.
[Multilingual]No:1554 - sarcoma
(sarco- + -oma) a tumour made up of a substance like the embryonic connective tissue; tissue composed of closely packed cells embedded in a fibrillar or homogeneous substance. Sarcomas are often highly malignant.
[Multilingual]No:1555 - scabies
(L., from scabere scratch) a contagious dermatitis of humans and various wild and domestic animals caused by the itch mite, Sarcoptes scabiei, transmitted by close contact, and characterized by a papular eruption over tiny, raised sinuous burrows (cuniculi) produced by digging into the upper layer of the epidermis by the egg-laying female mite, which is accompanied by intense pruritus and sometimes associated with eczema from scratching and secondary bacterial infection. Called also the itch and seven-year itch.
[Multilingual]No:1556 - scarlatina
(L. 'scarlet') scarlet fever.
[Multilingual]No:1557 - schizophrenia
(schizo + Gr. phrn mind + -ia) (DSM III-R) a mental disorder or heterogeneous group of disorders (the schizophrenias or schizophrenic disorders) comprising most major psychotic disorders and characterized by disturbances in form and content of thought (loosening of associations, delusions, and hallucinations) mood (blunted, flattened, or inappropriate affect), sense of self and relationship to the external world (loss of ego boundaries, dereistic thinking, and autistic withdrawal), and behaviour (bizarre, apparently purposeless, and stereotyped activity or inactivity). The definition and clinical application of the concept of the concept of schizophrenia have varied greatly. The DSM III-R criteria emphasize marked disorder of thought (delusions, hallucinations, or other thought disorder accompanied by disordered affect or behaviour), deterioration from a previous level of functioning, and chronicity (duration of more than 6 months), thus excluding from this classification conditions referred to by others as acute, borderline, simple, or latent schizophrenia. Originally called dementia praecox and characterized as a psychosis with adolescent onset and a chronic course ending in deterioration. The term schizophrenia was introduced by Bleuler because neither early onset nor terminal deterioration is an essential feature; he emphasized the splitting and lack of personality integration seen in the disorder.
[Multilingual]No:1558 - sciatica
a syndrome characterized by pain radiating from the back into the buttock and into the lower extremity along its posterior or lateral aspect, and most commonly caused by prolapse of the intervertebral disk; the term is also used to refer to pain anywhere along the course of the sciatic nerve.
[Multilingual]No:1559 - sclera
(L.; Gr. skleros hard) (NA) the tough white outer coat of the eyeball, covering approximately the posterior five-sixths of its surface, and continuous anteriorly with the cornea and posteriorly with the external sheath of the optic nerve.
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