| IHRA | isocapnic hyperventilation with room air |
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| LAF | laminar air flow; Latin American female; leukocyte-activating factor; lymphocyte-activating factor |
| LAFR | laminar air flow room |
| LAFU | laminar air flow unit |
| LAL | left axillary line; Limulus amebocyte lysate; low air loss; lysosomal acid lipase |
| intermittent positive-pressure ventilation | Application of positive pressure to the inspiratory phase when the patient has an artificial airway in place and is connected to a ventilator. See: controlled mechanical ventilation (12 Dec 1998) |
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| intra-arterial pressure | The pressure of the blood within an artery, the arterial pressure. Also called the arterial tension. (12 Dec 1998) |
| intracardiac pressure curve | Curve of pressure recorded within the atrium or ventricle (intra-atrial and intraventricular pressure curve's). (05 Mar 2000) |
| intracranial pressure | <physiology> The pressure the cerebrospinal fluid exerts on the brain. (27 Sep 1997) |
| intraocular pressure | <ophthalmology> The pressure the fluid (vitreous) contained within the eye, exerts on the globe (lining of the eyeball). Increased intraocular pressure is a feature of glaucoma. (27 Sep 1997) |
| intraocular pressure monitoring | <ophthalmology, technique> This is procedure which measures the pressure inside the eyes. This is a screening test for glaucoma. This test is performed by an ophthalmologist. (27 Sep 1997) |
| isovolume pressure-flow curve | The relationship between transpulmonary pressure and respiratory air flow, expressed as a function of lung volume. (05 Mar 2000) |
| occlusal pressure | Any force exerted upon the occlusal surfaces of teeth. Synonym: biting pressure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| oncotic pressure | Osmotic pressure exerted by colloids in solution. (05 Mar 2000) |
| osmotic pressure | See: osmosis. The pressure required to prevent osmotic flow across a semi permeable membrane separating two solutions of different solute concentration. Equal to the pressure that can be set up by osmotic flow in this system. (18 Nov 1997) |
| effective osmotic pressure | That part of the total osmotic pressure of a solution that governs the tendency of its solvent to pass across a boundary, usually a semipermeable membrane; it is commonly represented by the product of the total osmotic pressure of the solution and the ratio (corrected for activities) of the number of dissolved particles that do not permeate the bounding membrane to the total number of particles in the solution; equivalent in meaning to tonicity; commonly expressed in equivalent units of osmolality rather than pressure per se. (05 Mar 2000) |
| topping and back pressure turbine | Turbines which operate at exhaust pressure considerably higher than atmospheric (noncondensing turbines). These turbines are often multistage types with relatively high efficiency. (05 Dec 1998) |
| transducers, pressure | Transducers that are activated by pressure changes, e.g., blood pressure. (12 Dec 1998) |
| transmural pressure | Pressure across the wall of a cardiac chamber or of a blood vessel. In the heart, transmural pressure is the resultant of the intracavitary pressure minus the extracavitary (i.e., pericardial) pressure and is the distending, i.e., true filling, pressure of the cardiac chamber of measurement when this is done during diastole. Since the pericardial pressure normally approximates zero, the filling pressure (usually equal to ventricular diastolic mean pressure), obviating the complexities of measuring pericardial pressure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| transpulmonary pressure | The difference between the pressure of the respired gas at the mouth and the pleural pressure around the lungs, measured when the airway is open; thus, it includes not only the transmural pressure of the lung but also any drop in pressure along the tracheobronchial tree during flow. (05 Mar 2000) |