| triceps reflex | A sudden contraction of the triceps muscle caused by a smart tap on its tendon when the forearm hangs loosely at a right angle with the arm. Synonym: elbow jerk, elbow reflex. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| triceps surae muscle | <anatomy> The two bellies of the gastrocnemius and soleus considered as one muscle. Synonym: musculus triceps surae, triceps muscle of calf. (05 Mar 2000) |
| triceps surae reflex | A contraction of the calf muscles when the tendo calcaneus is sharply struck. Synonym: ankle jerk, ankle reflex, tendo Achillis reflex, triceps surae reflex. (05 Mar 2000) |
| trich- | See: tricho-. (05 Mar 2000) |
| trichalgia | Pain produced by touching the hair. Synonym: trichodynia. Origin: trich-+ G. Algos, pain (05 Mar 2000) |
| trichangion | Synonym: telangion. Origin: trich-+ G. Angeion, vessel (05 Mar 2000) |
| trichatrophia | Atrophy of the hair bulbs, with brittleness, splitting, and falling out of hair. Origin: trich-+ G. Atrophia, atrophy (05 Mar 2000) |
| trichauxis | Excessive growth of hair in length and quantity. Origin: trich-+ G. Auxis, increase (05 Mar 2000) |
| trichi- | See: tricho-. (05 Mar 2000) |
| trichiasis | <medicine> A disease of the eye, in which the eyelashes, being turned in upon the eyeball, produce constant irritation by the motion of the lids. Origin: NL, fr. Gr, fr, hair. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| trichilemmal cyst | A common cyst of the skin and subcutis which contains sebum and keratin, and is lined by pale-staining stratified epithelial cells derived from follicular trichilemma. Synonym: trichilemmal cyst. (05 Mar 2000) |
| trichilemmoma | <tumour> A benign tumour derived from outer root sheath epithelium of a hair follicle, consisting of cells with pale-staining cytoplasm containing glycogen; multiple trichilemmoma's are present on the face in Cowden's disease. Synonym: tricholemmoma. Origin: trichi-+ G. Lemma, husk, + -oma, tumour (05 Mar 2000) |
| trichina | Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Hairy, made of hair, fr, hair. <zoology> A small, slender nematoid worm (Trichina spiralis) which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvae is swallowed by man, they are liberated and rapidly become adult, pair, and the ovoviviparous females produce in a short time large numbers of young which find their way into the muscles, either directly, or indirectly by means of the blood. Their presence in the muscles and the intestines in large numbers produces trichinosis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| trichinella | A genus of parasitic nematodes that causes trichinosis in man and carnivores. (12 Dec 1998) |
| trichinella spiralis | <microbiology> Trichinosis is an intestinal and tissue infection of humans and other mammals caused by the nematode Trichinella spiralis. Infection occurs through the consumption of infected meat (usually domestic pork) that carries the encysted larvae of Trichinella spiralis. Common symptoms include: diarrhoea, muscle pains, fever, dehydration and swelling around the eyes. Myocarditis (heart infection), pneumonitis (lung infection) and encephalitis (brain infection) can also occur in advanced cases. (19 Jan 1998) |