DICTIONARY
| ABERRANT | Deviating from the proper or expected course - deviating from what is normal |
| ANGIOMATOSIS | Skin biopsy shows vascular proliferation and infiltration of vessel walls by neutrophils and clumps of organisms seen with Warthin-Starry silver staining. |
| ANGIOMATOSIS | Bacillary angiomatosis, an infection of immunocompromised patients by a newly recognised Rickettsial species Rochalimaea henselae, characterised by fever and granulomatous cutaneous nodules, and peliosis hepatis in some cases. Skin biopsy shows vascular proliferation and infiltration of vessel walls by neutrophils and clumps of organisms seen with Warthin-Starry silver staining |
| ANGIOMYOLIPOMA | Hamartoma of kidney containing fat, muscle, vessels, fat density on CT is pathognomonic |
| ARTERIOVENOUS | Of, relating to, or connecting both arteries and veins |
| BIOSYNTHESIS | Formation of a chemical compound by a living organism. Also called biogenesis |
| CONGENITAL | Existing at and usually before, birth, referring to conditions that are present at birth, regardless of their causation |
| CONSANGUINEOUS | Of the same lineage or origin, having a common ancestor, related by birth, descended from the same parent or ancestor. |
| CORTICAL | Of, relating to, derived from, or consisting of cortex. Of, relating to, associated with, or depending on the cerebral cortex. |
| DORSUM | The posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine; "his back was nicely tanned": the back of the body of a vertebrate or any analogous surface (as the upper or outer surface of an organ or appendage or part: "the dorsum of the foot") |
| DYSPLASTIC | Abnormal development or growth of tissues, organs, or cells. |
| DYSTROPHIN | From skeletal muscle that is missing in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Its exact role is not yet clear, though it seems to be associated with the cytoplasmic face of the sarcolemma and T tubules and may form part of the membrane cytoskeleton. There are sequence homologies with nonmuscle _ actinin and with spectrin. |
| DYSTROPHY | A degenerative disorder caused by inadequate or defective nutrition. Any of several disorders, especially muscular dystrophy, in which the muscles weaken and atrophy |
| EQUINOVARUS | The most common congenital abnormality of the foot. Clubfoot may occur in several forms, but talipes equinovarus is the most common. In this case the foot turns downward and inward. Treatment involves the extended use of orthopaedic splints or casts to correct the position of the foot. |
| FISSURES | A long narrow opening; a crack or cleft. The process of splitting or separating; division. A separation into subgroups or factions; a schism. Anatomy. A normal groove or furrow, as in the liver or brain, that divides an organ into lobes or parts. Medicine. A break in the skin, usually where it joins a mucous membrane, producing a crack like sore or ulcer |
| FONTANELLES | Any of the soft membranous gaps between the incompletely formed cranial bones of a fetus or an infant. Also called soft spot. |
| HAEMANGIOMA | Consisting of a mass of blood vessels |
| HAMARTOMA | Tumor like but noneplastic overgrowth of tissue that is disordered in structure. |
| HEMIHYPERTROPHY | Abnormal enlargement of one side of the body |
| HETEROGENEOUS | Differing in kind; having unlike qualities; possessed of different characteristics; dissimilar; -- opposed to homogeneous, and said of two or more connected objects, or of a conglomerate mass, considered in respect to the parts of which it is made up. |
| HYDRAMNIOS | An abnormal condition of pregnancy characterised by an excess of amnionic fluid. |
| HYDROCEPHALUS | An abnormal condition in which cerebrospinal fluid collects in the ventricles of the brain; in infants it can cause abnormally rapid growth of the head and bulging fontanelles and a small face; in adults the symptoms are primarily neurological |
| HYPERTELORISM | Abnormal increase |
| HYPOGLYCAEMIA | Symptoms of hypoglycaemia include nausea, sweating, weakness, faintness, confusion hallucinations, headache, cold sweat, piloerection, hypothermia, irritability, bizarre behaviour and fainting. Prolonged hypoglycaemia can result in complete loss of consciousness, convulsions, coma and brain damage |
| HYPOPLASTIC | Incomplete or arrested development of an organ or a part |
| HYPOTONIC | Having less than normal tone or tension, as of muscles or arteries |
| INNOMINATE | A term used in designating many parts otherwise unnamed - a great branch of the superior vena cava |
| LYMPHOCYTES | Any of the nearly colorless cells found in the blood, lymph, and lymphoid tissues, constituting approximately 25 percent of white blood cells and including B cells, which function in humoral immunity, and T cells, which function in cellular immunity. |
| MACROCEPHALY | Abnormal largeness of the head - differs from hydrocephalus because there is no increased intecranial pressure and the overgrowth is symmetrical |
| MACROSOMIA | Too small a body. A child with microsomia has significant undergrowth |
| MAMMALIAN | Any of various warm-blooded vertebrate animals of the class Mammalia, including humans, characterized by a covering of hair on the skin and, in the female, milk-producing mammary glands for nourishing the young. |
| MITOCHONDRIAL | A spherical or elongated organelle in the cytoplasm of nearly all eukaryotic cells, containing genetic material and many enzymes important for cell metabolism, including those responsible for the conversion of food to usable energy. Also called chondriosome |
| MOSAICISM | A condition in which tissues of genetically different types occur in the same organism |
| MYOTONIC | Tonic spasm or temporary rigidity of one or more muscles, often characteristic of various muscular disorders |
| OCCIPITOFRONTAL | Relating to the occiput and the forehead. Relating to the occipital and frontal lobe of the cerebral cortex and association pathways that interconnect these regions |
| OEDEMA | An excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue spaces or a body cavity. Extended swelling in plant organs caused primarily by an excessive accumulation of water |
| OLIGOSACCHARIDE | A carbohydrate that consists of a relatively small number of monosaccharides |
| ORGANOMEGALY | Means - Visceromegaly - which means Abnormal enlargement of the Viscera |
| PERITONEAL | The serous membrane that lines the walls of the abdominal cavity and folds inward to enclose the viscera |
| PHILTRUM | The area from below the nose to the upper lip. Normally the philtrum is grooved. In foetal alcohol syndrome, the philtrum is flat |
| PLAGIOCEPHALY | Oblique lateral deformity of the skull |
| PLASMALOGEN | A group of glycerol based phospholipids in which the aliphatic side chains are not attached by ester linkages. Widespread distribution, found mainly in brain and spinal cord tissue. Less easily studied than the acyl phospholipids. |
| PREAURICULAR | Anterior to the auricle of the ear; denoting lymphatic nodes so situated |
| PROTUBERANT | Swelling outward, bulging |
| SAGITTAL | Of or relating to the suture uniting the two parietal bones of the skull. - or relating to the sagittal plane. |
| SHUNT | A passage between two natural body channels, such as blood vessels, especially one created surgically to divert or permit flow from one pathway or region to another; a bypass. |
| SUBCLAVIAN | Situated beneath the clavicle, or relating to the subclavian artery or vein |
| SUBCUTANEOUS | Located or placed just beneath the skin |
| SUPRAVENTRICULAR | Situated or occurring above the ventricles, especially in an atrium or atrioventricular node. |
| SYNDACTYLY | The condition of having two or more fused digits, as occurs normally in certain mammals and birds. A congenital anomaly in humans characterized by two or more fused fingers or toes. |
| TACHYCARDIA | A rapid heart rate, especially one above 100 beats per minute in an adult |
| TALIPES | Congenital deformity of the foot usually marked by a curled shape or twisted position of the ankle and heel and toes |
| VISCERA | Any of the large interior organs in any of the three great cavities of the body, especially in the obdomen |