| AFP | Alpha(¥á) Feto-Protein [HP 1826, 1858, 1859, 2265] ; Oncofetal Antigens &nbs... |
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| PC20 | provocative concentration causing 20% fall in FEV1 |
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| fall | 1. To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer. "I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven." (Luke x. 18) 2. To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees. "I fell at his feet to worship him." (Rev. Xix. 10) 3. To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean. 4. To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle. "A thousand shall fall at thy side." (Ps. Xci. 7) "He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell." (Byron) 5. To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls. 6. To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals. 7. To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the falls; stocks fell two points. "I am a poor falle man, unworthy now To be thy lord and master." (Shak) "The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished." (Sir J. Davies) 8. To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed. "Heaven and earth will witness, if Rome must fall, that we are innocent." (Addison) 9. To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin. "Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief." (Heb. Iv. 11) 10. To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties. 11. To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the countenance. "Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell." (Gen. Iv. 5) "I have observed of late thy looks are fallen." (Addison) 12. To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes. 13. To pass somewha suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation. 14. To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate. "The Romans fell on this model by chance." (Swift) "Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall." (Ruth. Iii. 18) "They do not make laws, they fall into customs." (H. Spencer) 15. To come; to occur; to arrive. "The vernal equinox, which at the Nicene Council fell on the 21st of March, falls now [1694] about ten days sooner." (Holder) 16. To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows. "They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul." (Jowett (Thucyd)) 17. To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals. 18. To belong or appertain. "If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all." (Pope) 19. To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him. To fall abroad of To meet, as a ship; also, to discover or come near, as land. To concur with; to agree with; as, the measure falls in with popular opinion. To comply; to yield to. "You will find it difficult to persuade learned men to fall in with your projects." . To fall off. To drop; as, fruits fall off when ripe. To withdraw; to separate; to become detached; as, friends fall off in adversity. "Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide." . To perish; to die away; as, words fall off by disuse. To apostatize; to forsake; to withdraw from the faith, or from allegiance or duty. "Those captive tribes . . . Fell off From God to worship calves." (Milton) To forsake; to abandon; as, his customers fell off. To depreciate; to change for the worse; to deteriorate; to become less valuable, abundant, or interesting; as, a falling off in the wheat crop; the magazine or the review falls off. "O Hamlet, what a falling off was there!" . To deviate or trend to the leeward of the point to which the head of the ship was before directed; to fall to leeward. To fall on. To meet with; to light upon; as, we have fallen on evil days. To begin suddenly and eagerly. "Fall on, and try the appetite to eat." . To begin an attack; to assault; to assail. "Fall on, fall on, and hear him not." . To drop on; to descend on. To fall out. To quarrel; to begin to contend. "A soul exasperated in ills falls out With everything, its friend, itself." (Addison) To happen; to befall; to chance. "There fell out a bloody quarrel betwixt the frogs and the mice." . To leave the ranks, as a soldier. To fall over. To revolt; to desert from one side to another. To fall beyond. To fall short, to be deficient; as, the corn falls short; they all fall short in duty. To fall through, to come to nothing; to fail; as, the engageent has fallen through. To fall to, to begin. "Fall to, with eager joy, on homely food." . To fall under. To come under, or within the limits of; to be subjected to; as, they fell under the jurisdiction of the emperor. To come under; to become the subject of; as, this point did not fall under the cognizance or deliberations of the court; these things do not fall under human sight or observation. To come within; to be ranged or reckoned with; to be subordinate to in the way of classification; as, these substances fall under a different class or order. To fall upon. To attack. [See To fall on] To attempt; to have recourse to. "I do not intend to fall upon nice disquisitions." Fall primarily denotes descending motion, either in a perpendicular or inclined direction, and, in most of its applications, implies, literally or figuratively, velocity, haste, suddenness, or violence. Its use is so various, and so mush diversified by modifying words, that it is not easy to enumerate its senses in all its applications. Origin: AS. Feallan; akin to D. Vallen, OS. & OHG. Fallan, G. Fallen, Icel. Falla, Sw. Falla, Dan. Falde, Lith. Pulti, L. Fallere to deceive, Gr. Sfallein to cause to fall, Skr. Sphal, sphul, to tremble. Cf. Fail, Fell, to cause to fall. 1. To let fall; to drop. "For every tear he falls, a Trojan bleeds." (Shak) 2. To sink; to depress; as, to fall the voice. 3. To diminish; to lessen or lower. "Upon lessening interest to four per cent, you fall the price of your native commodities." (Locke) 4. To bring forth; as, to fall lambs. 5. To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree. 1. The act of falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship. 2. The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall. 3. Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin. "They thy fall conspire." (Denham) "Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." (Prov. Xvi. 18) 4. Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire. "Beholds thee glorious only in thy fall." (Pope) 5. The surrender of a besieged fortress or town; as, the fall of Sebastopol. 6. Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents. 7. A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence. 8. Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope. 9. Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a precipice or steep; usually in the plural, sometimes in the singular; as, the falls of Niagara. 10. The discharge of a river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as, the fall of the Po into the Gulf of Venice. 11. Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet. 12. The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn. "What crowds of patients the town doctor kills, Or how, last fall, he raised the weekly bills." (Dryden) 13. That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow. 14. The act of felling or cutting down. "The fall of timber." . 15. Lapse or declinsion from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels. 16. Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule. 17. That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting. <zoology> Fall herring, a herring of the Atlantic (Clupea mediocris); also called tailor herring, and hickory shad. To try a fall, to try a bout at wrestling. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| fall-run fish | <marine biology> Anadromous fish that return to fresh water in the fall and spawn during fall or early winter. (09 Oct 1997) |
| fallen arches | A breaking down of the arch's of the foot, either longitudinal, transverse, or both; the resulting deformity is flat or splay foot, or both. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fallfish | <zoology> A fresh water fish of the United States (Semotilus bullaris); called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| falling | From Fall, Falling away, Falling off, etc. See To fall away, To fall off, etc, under Fall, Falling band, the plain, broad, linen collar turning down over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century. <medicine> Falling sickness See Shooting star. Falling stone, a stone falling through the atmosphere; a meteorite; an aerolite. Falling tide, the ebb tide. Falling weather, a rainy season. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| falling of the womb | Downward movement of the uterus due to laxity and atony of the muscular and fascial structures of the pelvic floor, usually resulting from injuries of childbirth or advanced age; prolapse occurs in three forms, first degree prolapse, the cervix of the prolapsed uterus is well within the vaginal orifice, second degree prolapse, the cervix is at or near the introitus, third degree prolapse (procidentia uteri), the cervix protrudes well beyond the vaginal orifice. Synonym: descensus uteri, falling of the womb. (05 Mar 2000) |
| falling palate | Relaxation or elongation of the uvula. Synonym: falling palate, staphylodialysis, staphyloptosis, uvulaptosis. Origin: uvulo-+ G. Ptosis, a falling (05 Mar 2000) |
| falling sickness | <disease, neurology> The paroxysmal transient disturbances of brain function that may be manifested as episodic impairment or loss of consciousness, abnormal motor phenomena, psychic or sensory disturbances or perturbation of the autonomic nervous system. Symptoms are due to paroxysmal disturbance of the electrical activity of the brain. On the basis of origin, epilepsy is idiopathic (cryptogenic, essential, genetic) or symptomatic (acquired, organic). On the basis of clinical and electroencephalographic phenomenon, four subdivisions are recognised: 1. Grand mal epilepsy (major epilepsy, haut mal epilepsy) subgroups: generalised, focal (localised), jacksonian (rolandic) 2. Petit mal epilepsy 3. Psychomotor epilepsy (temporal lobe epilepsy, psychic, psychic equivalent or variant) subgroups: psychomotor proper (tonic with adversive or torsion movements or masticatory phenomena), automatic (with amnesia) and sensory (hallucinations or dream states or d‚j. Vu) 4. Autonomic epilepsy (diencephalic), with flushing, pallor, tachycardia, hypertension, perspiration or other visceral symptoms. Synonym: epilepsia. Origin: Gr. Epilepsia = seizure (14 May 1997) |
| fallopian | <anatomy> Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus. Origin: From Fallopius, or Fallopio, a physician of Modena, who died in 1562. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| fallopian aqueduct | The bony passage in the temporal bone through which the facial nerve passes; the facial canal commences at the internal auditory meatus with the horizontal part which passes at first anteriorly (medial crus of facial canal) then turns posteriorly at the geniculum of the facial canal to pass medial to the tympanic cavity (lateral crus of facial canal); finally, it turns downward (descending part of facial canal) to reach the stylomastoid foramen. Synonym: canalis nervi facialis, aqueductus fallopii, fallopian aqueduct, fallopian canal. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fallopian arch | <anatomy> A fibrous band formed by the thickened inferior border of the aponeurosis of the external oblique that extends from the anterior superior spine of the ilium to the pubic tubercle bridging, muscular and vascular lacunae;forms the floor of the inguinal canal; gives origin to the lowermost fibres of internal oblique and transversus abdominis muscles. See: aponeurosis of external abdominal oblique muscle. Synonym: ligamentum inguinale, arcus inguinalis, crural arch, fallopian arch, fallopian ligament, femoral arch, Poupart's ligament. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fallopian canal | The bony passage in the temporal bone through which the facial nerve passes; the facial canal commences at the internal auditory meatus with the horizontal part which passes at first anteriorly (medial crus of facial canal) then turns posteriorly at the geniculum of the facial canal to pass medial to the tympanic cavity (lateral crus of facial canal); finally, it turns downward (descending part of facial canal) to reach the stylomastoid foramen. Synonym: canalis nervi facialis, aqueductus fallopii, fallopian aqueduct, fallopian canal. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fallopian hiatus | The opening on the anterior aspect of the petrous part of the temporal bone which leads to the facial canal and gives passage to the greater petrosal nerve. Synonym: hiatus canalis nervi petrosi majoris, fallopian hiatus, Ferrein's foramen, hiatus canalis facialis, hiatus of canal for greater petrosal nerve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fallopian ligament | <anatomy> A fibrous band formed by the thickened inferior border of the aponeurosis of the external oblique that extends from the anterior superior spine of the ilium to the pubic tubercle bridging, muscular and vascular lacunae;forms the floor of the inguinal canal; gives origin to the lowermost fibres of internal oblique and transversus abdominis muscles. See: aponeurosis of external abdominal oblique muscle. Synonym: ligamentum inguinale, arcus inguinalis, crural arch, fallopian arch, fallopian ligament, femoral arch, Poupart's ligament. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fallopian neuritis | Paralysis of the facial muscles, usually unilateral, due to either a lesion involving the nucleus or the facial nerve peripheral to the nucleus (peripheral facial paralysis) or a supranuclear lesion in the cerebrum or upper brainstem (central facial paralysis). With latter, facial weakness is usually partial and the upper portion of the face is relatively spared, due to bilateral cortical connections. (12 Dec 1998) |
Synonyms : Tubal Obstruction, Disease, Fallopian Tube, Diseases, Fallopian Tube, Fallopian Tube Disease, Obstruction, Tubal, Obstructions, Tubal, Tubal Obstructions
Synonyms : Cancer of the Fallopian Tube, Fallopian Tube Cancer, Cancer, Fallopian Tube, Cancers, Fallopian Tube, Fallopian Tube Cancers, Fallopian Tube Neoplasm, Neoplasm, Fallopian Tube, Neoplasms, Fallopian Tube
Synonyms : Patency Tests, Fallopian Tube
Synonyms : Fallopian Tube, Salpinges, Salpinx, Uterine Tubes, Mammalian Oviduct, Mammalian Oviducts, Oviduct, Mammalian, Tube, Fallopian, Tube, Uterine, Tubes, Fallopian, Tubes, Uterine, Uterine Tube
| fallopian tube |
either of a pair of tubes conducting the egg from the ovary to the uterus
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| fallout |
the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion side effect: any adverse and unwanted secondary effect; "a strategy to contain the fallout from the accounting scandal"
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| fallen arch |
sunken arch: an instep flattened so the entire sole rests on the ground
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| Fallopio |
Fallopius: Italian anatomist who first described the Fallopian tubes (1523-1562)
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| Fallot's tetralogy |
tetralogy of Fallot: a congenital heart defect producing cyanosis; characterized by four symptoms: pulmonary stenosis and ventricular septal defect and malposition of the aorta over both ventricles and hypertrophy of the right ventricle
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| fall | the act of surrendering (under agreed conditions) |
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| fall | a sudden drop from an upright position |
| fall | a lapse into sin |
| fall | a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity |
| fall | a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity |
| fall | a movement downward |
| fall | a sudden decline in strength or number or importance |
| fall | when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat |
| fall | a downward slope or bend |
| fall | the time of day immediately following sunset |
| fall | the season when the leaves fall from the trees |
| fall | pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind |
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