Category: F
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Facies
General aspect of plant or vegetation type. Distinctive facial expressions associated with specific medical or psychiatric disorders (e.g., masklike facies in parkinson’s disease). The expression or appearance of the face may be characteristic of various disease conditions. Someone’s facial appearance, used as a guide to diagnosis. A medical term used to describe facial appearance, which…
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Face
(Of an organ) the surface which is upper or inner [vague term, upper/lower or inner/outer surface being preferred]. The front part of the head, where the eyes, nose and mouth are placed. Front of the head, from the hairline to the chin, and including the forehead, eyes, nose, cheeks, and jaw. The anterior part of…
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F.
(Abbreviation in author citation) from the Latin filius meaning ‘son’.
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Fertilize
In flowering plants, the joining of pollen and egg cells that starts the development of a seed.
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Fertile
Able to produce seeds that will grow into new plants. Capable of giving rise to the next generation; Bearing flowers or fruit. Capable of producing. Able to reproduce. Able to produce children. Containing an abundance of the mineral nutrients (chiefly nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium) necessary for good plant growth, as well as decomposed organic materials…
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Fixed oil
A non-volatile oil (plant constituent). An oil produced by hot or cold infusion (preparation). These are lipids, esters of long-chain fatty acids and alcohols, or generally related oily stuff. If you drop some fixed oil on a blotter, it just stays there-forever. (Example: olive oil.) The name given to a vegetable oil obtained from plants…
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Four Level diagnosis
One of several different systems of diagnosis in Chinese medicine. This system can be contrasted with Eight Principles, Six Channel diagnosis, San Jiao diagnosis, and Zang Fu diagnosis. Four Level diagnosis deals with the invasion of the body by warm-natured External Pathogenic Factors (see above). It outlines how a pathogen invades the body from the…
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Five Elements
An ancient Chinese theory that forms the basic foundation of Chinese medicine, along with the Yin/Yang theory. Five Elements theory states that there are five elements—wood, fire, earth, metal, and water—that have specific constructive and destructive relationships with each other. For example, wood generates fire, while water controls fire. Through the relationships among the Five…
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Fire
One of the six External Pathogenic Factors. Fire is the same pathogen as heat, but in a more severe form. Fire has the characteristics of damaging body fluids and consuming Qi. Fire moves upward and disturbs the mind and spirit, causing agitation. It causes the blood to circulate in a disorderly and reckless manner, and…
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Feng Dan
Skin spots and their merged patches that often are pink or red, coming and going as quickly as wind.