| forced respiration | Voluntary hyperventilation. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| forced vital capacity | Vital capacity measured with the subject exhaling as rapidly as possible; data relating volume, expiratory flow, and time form the basis for other pulmonary function tests, e.g., flow-volume curve, forced expiratory volume, forced expiratory time, forced expiratory flow. (05 Mar 2000) |
| forceless | Having little or no force; feeble. "These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me." (Shak) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| forceps | 1. <instrument> A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers, surgeons, accoucheurs, dentists, etc. A pliers-like medical instrument used to grasp tissue. 2. <zoology> The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See Dressing. Origin: L. Forceps, -cipis, from the root of formus Hot + capere to take; akin to E. Heave. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| forceps anterior | Frontal radiation of the corpus callosum; that part of the fibre radiation of the corpus callosum which bends forward toward the frontal pole of the cerebrum. Synonym: forceps minor, forceps anterior, frontal part of corpus callosum, pars frontalis corporis callosi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| forceps delivery | Assisted birth of the child by an instrument designed to grasp the foetal head. (05 Mar 2000) |
| forceps major | Occipital radiation of the corpus callosum; that part of the fibre radiation of the corpus callosum which bends sharply backward into the occipital lobe of the cerebrum. Synonym: forceps major, forceps posterior, occipital part of corpus callosum, pars occipitalis corporis callosi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| forceps minor | Frontal radiation of the corpus callosum; that part of the fibre radiation of the corpus callosum which bends forward toward the frontal pole of the cerebrum. Synonym: forceps minor, forceps anterior, frontal part of corpus callosum, pars frontalis corporis callosi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| forceps posterior | Occipital radiation of the corpus callosum; that part of the fibre radiation of the corpus callosum which bends sharply backward into the occipital lobe of the cerebrum. Synonym: forceps major, forceps posterior, occipital part of corpus callosum, pars occipitalis corporis callosi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| forceps, obstetrical | An instrument designed as an aid in the vaginal delivery of a baby. (12 Dec 1998) |
| forcer | 1. One who, or that which, forces or drives. 2. <mechanics> The solid piston of a force pump; the instrument by which water is forced in a pump. A small hand pump for sinking pits, draining cellars, etc. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Forchheimer's sign | <clinical sign> The presence, in German measles, of a reddish maculopapular eruption on the soft palate. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Forchheimer, Frederick | <person> U.S. Physician, 1853-1913. See: Forchheimer's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| forcing | 1. The accomplishing of any purpose violently, precipitately, prematurely, or with unusual expedition. 2. <botany> The art of raising plants, flowers, and fruits at an earlier season than the natural one, as in a hitbed or by the use of artificial heat. Forcing bed or pit, a plant bed having an under layer of fermenting manure, the fermentation yielding bottom heat for forcing plants; a hotbed. 3. <botany> Forcing house, a greenhouse for the forcing of plants, fruit trees, etc. 4. Forcing engine, a fire engine. (06 Mar 1998) |
| forcipate | Shaped like a forceps. (05 Mar 2000) |