English dictionary of medical terms (84)

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No:1660 - suppuration: (L. sub under + puris pus) the formation of pus; the act of becoming converted into and discharging pus.
No:1661 - supraventricular: situated or occurring above the ventricles, especially in an atrium or atrioventricular node.
No:1662 - surdity: (L. surditas) deafness.
No:1663 - surgical: of, pertaining to, or correctable by surgery.
No:1664 - suspension: (L. suspensio) 1. a condition of temporary cessation, as of animation, of pain, or of any vital process. 2. a preparation of a finely divided drug intended to be incorporated (suspended) in some suitable liquid vehicle before it is used, or already incorporated in such a vehicle.
No:1665 - sympathetic: (Gr. sympathtikos) 1. pertaining to, caused by, or exhibiting sympathy. 2. a sympathetic nerve or the sympathetic nervous system.
No:1666 - sympathomimetic: (sympathetic + Gr. mimtikos imitative) 1. mimicking the effects of impulses conveyed by adrenergic postganglionic fibres of the sympathetic nervous system. 2. an agent that produces effects similar to those of impulses conveyed by adrenergic postganglionic fibres of the sympathetic nervous system. Called also adrenergic.
No:1667 - symptom: (L. symptoma; Gr. symptoma anything that has befallen one) any subjective evidence of disease or of a patient's condition, i.e. such evidence as perceived by the patient; a change in a patient's condition indicative of some bodily or mental state.
No:1668 - symptomatic: (Gr. symptomatikos) 1. pertaining to or of the nature of a symptom. 2. indicative (of a particular disease or disorder). 3. exhibiting the symptoms of a particular disease but having a different cause. 4. directed at the allying of symptoms, as symptomatic treatment.
No:1669 - symptomatology: 1. that branch of medicine with treats of symptoms; the systematic discussion of symptoms. 2. the combined symptoms of a disease.
No:1670 - synaptic: pertaining to or affecting a synapse (= site of functional apposition between neurons, at which an impulse is transmitted from one neuron to another by electrical or chemical means); pertaining to synapsis (= pairing off in point-for-point association of homologous chromosomes from the male and female pronuclei during the early prophase of meiosis).
No:1671 - syncope: a temporary suspension of consciousness due to generalized cerebral schemia, a faint or swoon.
No:1672 - syndrome: (Gr. syndrom concurrence) a set of symptoms which occur together; the sum of signs of any morbid state; a symptom complex. In genetics, a pattern of multiple malformations thought to be pathogenetically related).
No:1673 - synergistic: acting together; enhancing the effect of another force or agent.
No:1674 - synovial: (L. synovialis) of pertaining to, or secreting synovia.
No:1675 - synovitis: inflammation of a synovial membrane. It is usually painful, particularly on motion, and is characterized by a fluctuating swelling due to effusion within a synovial sac. Synovitis is qualified as fibrinous, gonorrhoeal, hyperplastic, lipomatous, metritic, puerperal, rheumatic, scarlatinal, syphilitic, tuberculous, urethral, etc.
No:1676 - synthesis: (Gr. 'a putting together, composition') 1. the artificial building up of a chemical compound, by the union of its elements or from other suitable starting materials. 2. in psychiatry, the integration of the various elements of the personality; the opposite of analysis.
No:1677 - systematic: (Gr. systmatikos) pertaining or according to a system.
No:1678 - systemic: pertaining to or affecting the body as a whole.
No:1679 - systolic: (of blood pressure) indicating the maximum arterial pressure during contraction of the left ventricle of the heart.

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