Category: F

The volume of gas exhaled from the completely inflated lungs during a maximal expiratory effort. The quantification of the respiratory capacity representing the amount of air a patient can forcefully expel from their lungs following a maximal inhalation. The assessment of forced vital capacity (FVC) involves instructing the individual to take the deepest breath achievable…

Canalis facialis; a canal in the internal acoustic meatus of the temporal bone that transmits the facial nerve.  

Injury from explosives; usually a burn, often with embedded foreign bodies and a high incidence of infection and tetanus, which should be prevented by meticulous care of injury and use of antitetanus toxoid and immune globulin.  

Any materials that are aspirated into the lower airways, such as beans, nuts, seeds, or coins. These items, which usually lodge in the right bronchus because of its anatomical relation to the trachea, may cause pneumonia, airway inflammation, abscess formation, or atelectasis.  

A cast restoration or bridge cemented to natural teeth.  

A respiratory pattern in which the air in the mouth and pharynx is forced into the lungs by gulping and swallowing it. This may be observed in patients whose respiratory muscles are weak or paralyzed.  

Persistent fetal heart rate slower than 110 beats per minute.  

Blood cells, as opposed to blood proteins or other chemical constituents of blood.  

blood cells, as opposed to blood proteins or other chemical constituents of blood.  

Delayed conduction through or from the atrioventricular node, marked on the electrocardiogram by a prolonged PR interval. Usually no treatment is necessary.