| cold pressor t. |
immersion of one hand in ice water for several minutes, causing vasoconstriction, tachycardia, and transient hypertension; it is used as an alternative stress test for detection of coronary artery disease in patients incapable of undergoing an exercise stress test and as a test of vasomotor function.
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| cold rigor point |
The temperature at which cell activity ceases.
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| cold quartz l. |
low pressure mercury arc l.
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| cold spot |
An area on a nuclear medicine scan in which no radioactive tracer is taken up?indicative of nonfunctioning tissue in a gland or other structure.
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| cold r. |
a cutaneous thermoreceptor particularly sensitive to temperatures between 15°and 35°C. See also paradoxical cold response, under response.
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