| klamaths | <ethnology> Klamath A collective name for the Indians of several tribes formerly living along the Klamath river, in California and Oregon, but now restricted to a reservation at Klamath Lake. Synonym: Clamets and Hamati. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Klapp's method | Treatment of scoliosis by a series of systematic crawling movements whereby the spine is bent laterally and made more flexible. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Klapp, Rudolph | <person> German surgeon, 1873-1949. See: Klapp's method. (05 Mar 2000) |
| klatskin tumour | <radiology> Tumour at junction of right and left intrahepatic bile ducts, slower growth than usual cholangiocarcinoma, late to metastasize (12 Dec 1998) |
| klatskin's tumour | Adenocarcinoma of the common hepatic duct bifurcation. These tumours are generally small, sharply localised, and seldom metastasizing. G. Klatskin's original review of 13 cases was published in 1965. Once thought to be relatively uncommon, tumours of the bifurcation of the bile duct now appear to comprise more than one-half of all bile duct cancers. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Klebs, Theodor Albrecht Edwin | <person> German physician, 1834-1913. See: Klebsiella, Klebs-Loeffler bacillus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Klebs-Loeffler bacillus | <bacteria> A species of gram-positive, asporogenous bacteria in which three cultural types are recognised. These types (gravis, intermedius, and mitis) were originally given in accordance with the clinical severity of the cases from which the different strains were most frequently isolated. This species is the causative agent of diphtheria. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Klebsiella | <bacteria> Genus of gram-negative bacteria, nonmotile and rod like, associated with respiratory, intestinal and urinogenital tracts of mammals. K. Pneumoniae associated with pneumonia in humans. (18 Nov 1997) |
| klebsiella infections | Infections with bacteria of the genus klebsiella. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Klebsiella mobilis | A species found in water, soil, sewage, dairy products, and the faeces of man and other animals. Organisms previously identified as motile strains of Aerobacter aerogenes are now placed in this species. Synonym: Klebsiella mobilis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Klebsiella ozaenae | A species which occurs in cases of ozena and other chronic diseases of the respiratory tract. Synonym: Klebsiella pneumoniae subsp. Ozaenae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| klebsiella pneumonia | <radiology> Acute, fulminating form, diabetics, alcoholics, chronic form, associated with underlying lung disease, unusual in infants and children (but may be epidemic), mortality about 50% (less in epidemic form), death often in 48 hours, XR findings: alveolar exudate most likely to be increased lung volume (12 Dec 1998) |
| klebsiella pneumoniae | Gram-negative, non-motile, capsulated, gas-producing rods found widely in nature and associated with urinary and respiratory infections in man. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Klebsiella pneumoniae ozaenae | A species which occurs in cases of ozena and other chronic diseases of the respiratory tract. Synonym: Klebsiella pneumoniae subsp. Ozaenae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| klebsiella rhinoscleromatis | A gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacterium found consistently and exclusively in patients with rhinoscleroma and their contacts. (12 Dec 1998) |