Category: F

A cup-shaped crust that develops in certain fungal infections.  

Soft, very short, high-pitched lung sounds. Fine, late-inspiratory crackles are often heard in pulmonary fibrosis and acute pulmonary edema.  

Contraction of a muscle that decreases during anesthesia or sleep.  

Contraction of a muscle in which the muscle tissue has been replaced by fibrous tissue because of injury.  

A type of conjunctivitis characterized by pinkish round bodies in the retrotarsal fold; can be chronic or acute.  

A condition in which pulmonary compliance decreases with rapid breathing; used toidentify small airway disease.  

The inability of the heart muscle or other diseased organs to meet the body’s needs. In cardiac failure, this results in pulmonary congestion, difficulty breathing, and sometimes hypotension or lower extremity swelling. Causes of cardiac compensatory failure may occur in patients with ischemic heart disease, valvular heart disease, or cardiomyopathies.  

A collodion preparation containing camphor and castor oil. It is more elastic than collodion.  

An anomaly resulting from failure of the facial processes of the embryo to fuse. Common types are oblique facial cleft, an open nasolacrimal furrow extending from the eye to the lower portion of the nose that is sometimes continuous with a cleft in the upper lip, and transverse facial cleft, which extends laterally from the…

Physical injury of the clavicle sufficient to fracture it, often as a result of a fall (e.g., from a ladder or bicycle). Most clavicular fractures involve the distal one third of the bone.