| Fx | Fracture; 골절(骨折) |
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| CCF | cancer coagulation factor; cardiolipin complement fixation; carotid-cavernous fistula; centrifuged c... |
| CFS | cancer family syndrome; Chiari-Frommel syndrome; chronic fatigue syndrome; craniofacial stenosis; cr... |
| FNF | false-negative fraction; femoral neck fracture |
| Fr | fracture; francium; franklin [unit charge]; French; frequency or frequent |
| persistently growing tooth | A physiologic phenomenon whereby the tooth continually or constantly grows, calcifies, and erupts; e.g., the rat incisor tooth. Synonym: persistently growing tooth. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| growing ovarian follicle | A follicle having several layers of proliferating follicular cells surrounding the ovum, but separated from it by an extracellular glycoprotein layer (zona pellucida). (05 Mar 2000) |
| growing pains | Mysterious pains in growing children, usually in the legs. These pains are similar to what the weekend gardener suffers from on monday an overuse type of problem. If in playing, children exceed their regular threshold, they will be sore, just like an adult. Growing pains are typically somewhat diffuse (vs. Focal) and are not associated with physical changes of the area (such as swelling, redness, etc.). The pains are usually easily relieved by massage, tylenol (acetaminophen), or rest. If the pains persist past a week or there are physical changes, the child should be seen by a physician. (12 Dec 1998) |
| base of skull | The sloping floor of the cranial cavity. It comprises both the external base of skull (external view) and the internal base of skull (internal view). See: internal base of skull. Synonym: basis cranii, cranial base. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bones of skull | The paired inferior nasal concha, lacrimal, maxilla, nasal, palatine, parietal, temporal, and zygomatic; and the unpaired ethmoid, frontal, occipital, sphenoid, and vomer. Synonym: ossa cranii, cranial bones. (05 Mar 2000) |
| maplike skull | Various defects in the skull, especially in the temporal bone, the anterior fossa, and orbits, forming irregular outlines resembling the national boundaries in an atlas. (05 Mar 2000) |
| roof of skull | <anatomy> The skull cap, roof of the skull (27 Sep 1997) |
| cloverleaf skull | <syndrome> Intrauterine bone dysplasia and synostosis of the coronal and lambdoid sutures producing a trilobar head shape, due to premature fusion (craniosynostosis) of all sutures. This produces various craniofacial and long-bone anomalies. The condition is sporadic; no evidence to suggest a genetic cause although there may be some hereditary in Crouzon syndrome. (20 Jun 2000) |
| cloverleaf skull syndrome | <syndrome> Intrauterine bone dysplasia and synostosis of the coronal and lambdoid sutures producing a trilobar head shape, due to premature fusion (craniosynostosis) of all sutures. This produces various craniofacial and long-bone anomalies. The condition is sporadic; no evidence to suggest a genetic cause although there may be some hereditary in Crouzon syndrome. (20 Jun 2000) |
| single lucent skull lesion | <radiology> Mnemonic: HELP ME, haemangioma, epidermoid / dermoid, leptomeningeal cyst, lambdoid suture defect, Paget's (osteoporosis circumscripta), post-surgical, metastasis (solitary), eosinophilic granuloma, encephalocele (12 Dec 1998) |
| skull | A school, company, or shoal. "A knavish skull of boys and girls did pelt at him." "These fishes enter in great flotes and skulls." (Holland) See: School a multitude. 1. <anatomy> The skeleton of the head of a vertebrate animal, including the brain case, or cranium, and the bones and cartilages of the face and mouth. In many fishes the skull is almost wholly cartilaginous but in the higher vertebrates it is more or less completely ossified, several bones are developed in the face, and the cranium is made up, wholly or partially, of bony plates arranged in three segments, the frontal, parietal, and occipital, and usually closely united in the adult. 2. The head or brain; the seat of intelligence; mind. "Skulls that can not teach, and will not learn." (Cowper) 3. A covering for the head; a skullcap. "Let me put on my skull first." (Beau & Fl) 4. A sort of oar. See Scull. Skull and crossbones, a symbol of death. See Crossbones. Origin: OE. Skulle, sculle, scolle; akin to Scot. Skull, skoll, a bowl, Sw. Skalle skull, skal a shell, and E. Scale; cf. G. Hirnschale, Dan. Hierneskal. Cf. Scale of a balance. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| skull base | The internal and external base of the cranium: respectively the inner and outer surfaces of the inferior region of the skull. The internal base constitutes the floor of the cranial cavity. (12 Dec 1998) |
| skull base neoplasms | Neoplasms of the base of the skull specifically, differentiated from neoplasms of unspecified sites or bones of the skull (skull neoplasms). (12 Dec 1998) |
| skull neoplasms | Neoplasms of the bony part of the skull. (12 Dec 1998) |
| natiform skull | Palpable bony nodules on the surface of the skull in infants with congenital syphilis. (05 Mar 2000) |