| perilimbal suction cup | A device for increasing intraocular pressure by impeding circulation and aqueous humor flow from the eye. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Wangensteen suction | A modified siphon that maintains constant negative pressure, used with a duodenal tube for the relief of gastric and intestinal distention. Synonym: Wangensteen tube. (05 Mar 2000) |
| posttussis suction sound | A sound produced by the falling back of a drop of mucus or pus into a pulmonary cavity after the latter has been emptied by coughing. (05 Mar 2000) |
| posttussive suction | A suction sound heard on auscultation over a pulmonary cavity at the end of a cough. (05 Mar 2000) |
| suction | The act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air. Suction chamber, the chamber of a pump into which the suction pipe delivers. Suction pipe, Suction valve, the induction pipe, and induction valve, of a pump, respectively. Suction pump, the common pump, in which the water is raised into the barrel by atmospheric pressure. Origin: L. Sugere, suctum, to suck; cf. OF. Suction. See Suck. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| suction cup | One of the cupping glasses of various shapes, formerly used to produce local hyperaemia according to Bier's method. Wet cup, a cupping glass formerly applied to a part previously scarified or incised to draw and remove blood. (05 Mar 2000) |
| suction drainage | Closed drainage of a cavity, with a suction apparatus attached to the drainage tube. (05 Mar 2000) |
| suction ophthalmodynamometer | An ophthalmodynamometer with a suction disk which increases ocular pressure during ophthalmoscopic observation of the retinal artery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| suction plate | In dentistry, a plate held in place by atmospheric pressure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| blue rubber-bleb nevi | A syndrome characterised by erectile, easily compressible, thin-walled haemangiomatous nodules, widely distributed in the skin and in the alimentary canal, and sometimes in other tissues; lesions in the gut may perforate or cause haemorrhage, and the patient may be anaemic from continual bleeding. (05 Mar 2000) |
| blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome | <radiology> Bean syndrome, sporadic (some autosomal dominant), rubbery, raised blue-black skin nevi (cavernous haemangiomata, 0.1 - 5 cm), GI mucosal haemangiomata, bowel: polypoid filling defects of varying sizes, visceral haemangiomata (by angio) associated with: leukaemia, medulloblastoma, hypernephroma, Mafucci syndrome More info: blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome (12 Dec 1998) |
| rubber | 1. One who, or that which, rubs. Specifically: An instrument or thing used in rubbing, polishing, or cleaning. A coarse file, or the rough part of a file. A whetstone; a rubstone. An eraser, usually made of caoutchouc. The cushion of an electrical machine. One who performs massage, especially in a Turkish bath. Something that chafes or annoys; hence, something that grates on the feelings; a sarcasm; a rub. 2. In some games, as whist, the odd game, as the third or the fifth, when there is a tie between the players; as, to play the rubber; also, a contest determined by the winning of two out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist. "A rubber of cribbage." 3. India rubber; caoutchouc. 4. An overshoe made of India rubber. Antimony rubber, an elastic durable variety of vulcanised caoutchouc of a red colour. It contains antimony sulphide as an important constituent. Hard rubber, a kind of vulcanised caoutchouc which nearly resembles horn in texture, rigidity, etc. India rubber, caoutchouc. See Caoutchouc. Rubber cloth, cloth covered with caoutchouc for excluding water or moisture. <dentistry> Rubber dam, a shield of thin sheet rubber clasped around a tooth to exclude saliva from the tooth. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| rubber-bulb syringe | A syringe with a hollow rubber bulb and cannula provided with a check valve, used to obtain a jet of air or water. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rubber dam | In surgery, thin strips of rubber used as a surgical drain or barrier, a thin sheet of rubber with holes that is placed over teeth to isolate them from the oral cavity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rubber dam clamp | A springlike metal piece encircling or grasping the cervix of a tooth and so shaped as to prevent a rubber dam from coming off the tooth. (05 Mar 2000) |