| FVC | false vocal cord; forced vital capacity |
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| PVCM | paradoxical vocal cord motion |
| TVC | timed vital capacity; total viable cells; total volume capacity; transvaginal cone; triple voiding c... |
| TVF | tactile vocal fremitus |
| VC | color vision; variance cardiography; vascular changes; vasoconstriction; vena cava; venereal case; v... |
| dense metaphyseal bands | <radiology> Normal variant, stress lines, heavy metal poisoning, treated rickets, scurvy, hypervitaminosis D (12 Dec 1998) |
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| Q bands | <cell biology> The alternating bright and dull fluorescent bands seen on chromosomes under ultraviolet light after the chromosomes are stained with quinacrine. The Q stands for quinacrine, an agent used as an antimalarial agent and, in the laboratory, as a fluorescent dye. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Essick's cell bands | Groups of cells in the developing rhombencephalon which migrate in two bands, one of which eventually forms the inferior olivary nucleus and the arcuate nucleus, and the other the pontine nuclei. (05 Mar 2000) |
| longitudinal bands of cruciform ligament | <anatomy> Ligamentous slips forming the "upright" or vertical beam of the cruciform ligament. Synonym: fasciculi longitudinales ligamenti cruciformis atlantis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vocal | 1. A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic; distinguished from a subvocal, and a nonvocal. 2. A man who has a right to vote in certain elections. Origin: Cf. F. Vocal, LL. Vocalis. 1. Of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice; endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices. "To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song." (Milton) 2. Uttered or modulated by the voice; oral; as, vocal melody; vocal prayer. "Vocal worship." 3. Of or pertaining to a vowel or voice sound; also, poken with tone, intonation, and resonance; sonant; sonorous; said of certain articulate sounds. 4. Consisting of, or characterised by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc, or by both, as in the nasals m, n, ng; sonant; intonated; voiced. See Voice, and Vowel, also Guide to Pronunciation, 199-202. Of or pertaining to a vowel; having the character of a vowel; vowel. Vocal cords or chords. <anatomy> The part of the air passages above the inferior ligaments of the larynx, including the passages through the nose and mouth. Origin: L. Vocalis, fr. Vox, vocis, voice: cf. F. Vocal. See Voice, and cf. Vowel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| vocal amusia | The inability to sing, although speech is intact. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vocal cord nodules | Small, circumscribed, bilateral, beadlike enlargements on the vocal cords caused by overuse or abuse of the voice; often reversible by voice therapy. Synonym: singer's nodes, singer's nodules, teachers' nodes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vocal cord paralysis | Paralysis of one or both of the vocal cords. (12 Dec 1998) |
| vocal cords | Two small bands of muscle within the larynx. They close to prevent food from getting into the lungs, and they vibrate to produce the voice. (12 Dec 1998) |
| vocal fold | One of Ferrein's cords; the sharp edge of a fold of mucous membrane overlying the vocal ligament and stretching along either wall of the larynx from the angle between the laminae of the thyroid cartilage to the vocal process of the arytenoid cartilage; the vocal folds are the agents concerned in voice production. Synonym: plica vocalis, chorda vocalis, labium vocale, true vocal cord, vocal cord, vocal shelf. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vocal fremitus | The vibration in the chest wall, felt on palpation, produced by the spoken voice. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vocal ligament | <anatomy> The band that extends on either side from the thyroid cartilage to the vocal process of the arytenoid cartilage; it is the thickened, free upper border of the conus elasticus of the larynx. Synonym: ligamentum vocale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vocal muscle | <anatomy, muscle> Origin, depression between the two laminae of thyroid cartilage; insertion, portions of vocal process of arytenoid; action, shortens and relaxes vocal cords; nerve supply, recurrent laryngeal; a number of the deeper and finer fibres of the thyroaryteroid muscle attached directly to the outer side of the true vocal cord. Synonym: musculus vocalis, musculus thyroarytenoideus internus, vocal muscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vocal process | The lower end of the anterior margin of the arytenoid cartilage to which the vocal cord is attached. Synonym: processus vocalis cartilaginis arytenoidei, vocal process. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vocal process of arytenoid cartilage | The lower end of the anterior margin of the arytenoid cartilage to which the vocal cord is attached. Synonym: processus vocalis cartilaginis arytenoidei, vocal process. (05 Mar 2000) |