| dental pathology | The branch of dentistry concerned with the aetiology, pathogenesis, and clinical, gross, and microscopic aspects of oral and paraoral disease, including oral soft tissues, the teeth, jaws, and salivary glands. Synonym: dental pathology. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| symptoms and general pathology | manifestations of disease and pathological conditions which may occur in various diseases and different organs (12 Dec 1998) |
| oral pathology | The branch of dentistry concerned with the aetiology, pathogenesis, and clinical, gross, and microscopic aspects of oral and paraoral disease, including oral soft tissues, the teeth, jaws, and salivary glands. Synonym: dental pathology. (05 Mar 2000) |
| functional pathology | Pathology pertaining to abnormalities in function of a tissue, organ, or part, with or without associated changes in structure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lupus glomerulonephritis-pathology | Patient survival and preservation of renal function are predictable from renal pathology as demonstrated by biopsy and defined by the histological classification of the International Study of Kidney Disease in Children/World Health Organization (ISKDC/WHO). Semi-quantitative indices of nephron loss (chronicity index) and activity of acute potentially reversible inflammation (activity index) are not predictive of individual outcome, renal failure or death in patients with aggressively treated SLE GN. (05 Mar 2000) |
| alaryngeal speech | A form of speech achieved after laryngectomy by using either an external vibratory source or the pharyngoesophageal segment as an internal vibratory source. Tracheoesophageal speech may be produced after laryngectomy by surgically diverting exhaled air to the pharynx by a permanently constructed tracheoesophageal fistula. (05 Mar 2000) |
| american speech-language-hearing association | A professional society concerned with the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and remediation of speech, language, and hearing disorders. (12 Dec 1998) |
| audiometry, speech | Measurement of the ability to hear speech under various conditions of intensity and noise interference using sound-field as well as earphones and bone oscillators. (12 Dec 1998) |
| rehabilitation of speech and language disorders | Procedures for assisting a person with a speech or language disorder to communicate with maximum efficiency. (12 Dec 1998) |
| cerebellar speech | An explosive type of utterance, with slurring of words. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mirror speech | A reversal of the order of syllables in a word, analogous to mirror writing. (05 Mar 2000) |
| clipped speech | A form of lalling in which consonants or syllables that are difficult to pronounce are omitted. Synonym: clipped speech. (05 Mar 2000) |
| motor speech centre | The posterior part of the inferior frontal gyrus of the left or dominant hemisphere, corresponding approximately to Brodmann's area 44; Broca identified this region as an essential component of the motor mechanisms governing articulated speech. Synonym: Broca's area, Broca's field, motor speech centre. (05 Mar 2000) |
| helium speech | The peculiar high-pitched, often unintelligible speech sounds produced when one breathes a mixture of up to 80 per cent helium and 20 per cent oxygen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| scamping speech | A form of lalling in which consonants or syllables that are difficult to pronounce are omitted. Synonym: clipped speech. (05 Mar 2000) |