| Hammerschlag, Albert | <person> Austrian physician, 1863-1935. See: Hammerschlag's method. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| hammock | 1. A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends. 2. A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines. Used also adjectively; as, hammock land. Hammock nettings, formerly, nets for stowing hammocks; now, more often, wooden boxes or a trough on the rail, used for that purpose. Origin: A word of Indian origin: cf. Sp. Hamaca. Columbus, in the Narrative of his first voyage, says: "A great many Indians in canoes came to the ship to-day for the purpose of bartering their cotton, and hamacas, or nets, in which they sleep.". Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hammock bandage | A bandage for retaining dressings on the head: the dressings are covered by a wide gauze strip, the ends of which are brought down over the ears and held while a narrow circular bandage is passed around the head; the ends of the gauze strip are then turned up over the circular bandage and other turns are made securing them firmly. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hammock ligament | <anatomy> The part of the periodontium below the growing end of the root of the tooth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hammond's disease | <neurology> A derangement marked by ceaseless occurrence of slow, sinuous, writhing movements, especially severe in the hands and performed involuntarily, it may occur after hemiplegia and is then known as posthemiplegic chorea. Synonym: mobile spasm. Origin: Gr. Athetos = not fixed (13 Nov 1997) |
| Hammond, William | <person> U.S. Neurologist, 1828-1900. See: Hammond's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hamous | <botany> Having the end hooked or curved. Origin: L. Hamus hook. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hampton hump | <radiology> Pleural-based shallow consolidation in the form of a truncated cone with the base against the pleural surface, seen in pulmonary infarction (12 Dec 1998) |
| Hampton line | A thin radiolucent band across the neck of a contrast-filled benign gastric ulcer, indicating mucosal oedema. Compare: Carman's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hampton manoeuvre | Rolling a supine patient to the right and then left side to obtain an air contrast radiograph of the contrast-coated antrum and duodenum in gastrointestinal fluoroscopy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hampton technique | An obsolete term for atraumatic, nonpalpation, fluoroscopic examination of the upper gastrointestinal tract in peptic ulcer disease with acute haemorrhage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hampton's hump | A juxtapleural pulmonary soft tissue density on a chest radiograph, convex toward the hilum, usually at the costophrenic angle; described as a manifestation of pulmonary infarction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hampton, Aubrey Otis | <person> U.S. Radiologist, 1900-1955. See: Hampton line, Hampton manoeuvre, Hampton technique, Hampton's hump. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hamster | <zoology> A small European rodent (Cricetus frumentarius). It is remarkable for having a pouch on each side of the jaw, under the skin, and for its migrations. A common name used to describe a subfamily of the muridae. Four of the more common genera are cricetus, cricetulus, mesocricetus, and phodopus. All hamsters are seed and plant feeders, store food, hibernate in winter, and breed throughout the year under laboratory conditions. Origin: G. Hamster. (06 Mar 2000) |
| hamster test | <investigation> The hamster test is a test of the ability of a man's sperm to penetrate a hamster egg stripped of its outer membrane, the zona pellucida. (09 Oct 1997) |