| PMC | paramyotonia congenita; patient management category; phenylmercuric chloride; physical medicine clin... |
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| PPT | parietal pleural tissue; partial prothrombin time; peak-to-peak threshold; Pfeiffer-Palm-Teller [syn... |
| VPS | ventriculoperitoneal shunt; verbal pain scale; virtual point source; visual pleural space; volume pe... |
| crackling rale | Very fine sounds produced by fluid in very small airways in pneumonia or congestive heart failure. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| crepitant rale | A fine bubbling or crackling sound produced by air mixing with very thin secretions in the smaller bronchial tubes. Synonym: vesicular rale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sibilant rale | A whistling sound caused by air moving through a viscid secretion narrowing the lumen of a bronchus. Synonym: whistling rale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Skoda's rale | A rale in a bronchus heard through an area of consolidated tissue in pneumonia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sonorous rale | A cooing or snoring sound often produced by the vibration of a projecting mass of viscid secretion in a large bronchus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| subcrepitant rale | A very fine crepitant rale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dry rale | A harsh or musical breath sound produced by a constriction in a bronchial tube or the presence of a viscid secretion narrowing the lumen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| biopsy, pleural needle | <investigation, procedure, surgery> A pleural needle biopsy involves the use of a needle (inserted from the skin) to obtain a small sample of pleural tissue for microscopic analysis. The biopsy is done using a local anaesthetic. Abnormal results may reveal cancer (metastatic or primary), tuberculosis, a fungal disease, viral disease, a parasitic disease or collagen vascular disease. Risks include pneumothorax and internal bleeding. (21 Mar 1998) |
| pleural | <anatomy> Of or pertaining to the pleura or pleurae, or to the sides of the thorax. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pleural calculus | A concretion in the pleural cavity. Synonym: pleural calculus. Origin: pleuro-+ G. Lithos, stone (05 Mar 2000) |
| pleural canal | The portion of the embryonic celom that joins the pericardial cavity to the peritoneal cavity, developing into the pleural cavities. Synonym: pleural canal. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pleural cavity | The potential space which lies in between the visceral pleura and the parietal pleura. (27 Sep 1997) |
| pleural crackles | Sounds heard on auscultation of the chest as a result of inflammation of the pleura with fibrinous exudate. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pleural cupula | The dome-shaped roof of the pleural cavity extending up through the superior aperture of the thorax. Synonym: cupula pleurae, cervical pleura. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pleural effusion | A collection of fluid (or blood) in the pleural space (in one side of the chest cavity around the lung). May be secondary to trauma, cancer, nephrotic syndrome, kidney disease, pancreatitis, congestive heart failure and cirrhosis. See: pleural space. (27 Sep 1997) |