| fulminant hepatitis | <gastroenterology, pathology> A severe and rapidly progressive form of hepatitis accompanied by hepatocellular death and the signs and symptoms of hepatic failure. May be a complication of hepatitis B, hepatitis C or hepatitis D. (05 Jan 1998) |
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| fulminant hyperpyrexia | A severe form of fever that occurs as a reaction to certain anaesthetic agents and muscle relaxants. Malignant hyperthermia is an inherited autosomal dominant condition. Inheritance: autosomal dominant. (27 Sep 1997) |
| fulminate | <chemistry> A salt of fulminic acid. See Fulminic. A fulminating powder. Fulminate of gold, an explosive compound of gold; called also fulminating gold, and aurum fulminans. Origin: Cf. P. Fulminate. See Fulminate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| fulminating | 1. Thundering; exploding in a peculiarly sudden or violent manner. 2. Hurling denunciations, menaces, or censures. Fulminating oil, nitroglycerin. <chemistry> Fulminating powder any violently explosive powder, but especially one of the fulminates, as mercuric fulminate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| fulminating dysentery | Dysentery in which the symptoms are intensely acute, leading to prostration, collapse, and often death. Synonym: fulminating dysentery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fulminating smallpox | A severe and frequently fatal form of smallpox accompanied by extravasation of blood into the skin in the early stage, or into the pustules at a later stage, accompanied often by nosebleed and haemorrhage from other orifices of the body. Synonym: fulminating smallpox, variola haemorrhagica. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fulminuric | <chemistry> Pertaining to fulminic and cyanuric acids, and designating an acid so called. <chemistry> Fulminuric acid, a white, crystalline, explosive subatance, H3C3N3O3, forming well known salts, and obtained from the fulnunates. It is isomeric with cyanuric acid, and hence is also called isocyanuric acid. Origin: Fulminic + cyanuric. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| fumado | Origin: Sp. Fumodo smoked, p. P. Of fumar to smoke, fr. L. Fumare. See Fume. A salted and smoked fish, as the pilchard. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| fumagillin | <drug> Naturally secreted antibiotic from Aspergillus fumigatus that inhibits endothelial cell proliferation and is therefore potentially antiangiogenic. (18 Nov 1997) |
| fumarase | <enzyme> An enzyme that serves an important role in the Krebs cycle phase of sugar metabolism by catalysing the conversion of fumarate to malate. (09 Oct 1997) |
| fumarate | <biochemistry> A dicarboxylic acid intermediate in the tricarboxylic acid cycle. Can be derived from aspartate, phenylalanine and tyrosine for input to the Krebs cycle. (18 Nov 1997) |
| fumarate hydratase | <enzyme> An enzyme that catalyses the reversible hydration of fumaric acid to yield l-malic acid. It is one of the citric acid cycle enzymes. Chemical name: (S)-Malate hydro-lyase Registry number: EC 4.2.1.2 (12 Dec 1998) |
| fumarate reductase | <enzyme> Registry number: EC 1.3.99.1 (12 Dec 1998) |
| fumaric | <chemistry> Pertaining to, or derived from, fumitory (Fumaria officinalis). <chemistry> Fumaric acid, a widely occurring organic acid, exttracted from fumitory as a white crystallline substance, C2H2(CO2H)2, and produced artificially in many ways, as by the distillation of malic acid; boletic acid. It is found also in the lichen, Iceland moss, and hence was also called lichenic acid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| fumaric acid | Trans-Butanedioic acid;an unsaturated dicarboxylic acid occurring as an intermediate in the tricarboxylic acid cycle. Synonym: allomaleic acid. (05 Mar 2000) |