Category: L

An anaesthetic such as lignocaine which removes the feeling in a single part of the body only. Drug given to numb a part of the body.  

Loss of feeling in a single part of the body. Loss of sensation produced in a part of the body in order to stop pain while a person is examined, investigated or treated. The anaesthesia is effected by giving drugs in a local area temporarily to stop the action of pain-carrying nerve fibres. To anaesthetise…

Relating to a lobule.  

Pneumonia which affects one or more lobes of the lung. Severe, bacterial (often streptococcal) infection of one or more lobes of the lung; it is characterized by fever; cough; rapid, shallow breathing; cyanosis; inflammation of the membrane lining of the lung; nausea and vomiting; and, if untreated, consolidation (solidification) of lung tissue. Treatment is by…

Air passages supplying a lobe of a lung.  

Referring to a lobe.  

A tropical threadworm which digs under the skin, especially around and into the eye, causing loa loa and loiasis. A genus of parasitic nematode worms. The adult eye worm, L. loa, lives within the tissues beneath the skin, where it causes inflammation and swelling. The motile embryos, present in the blood during the day, may…

A surgical operation to give a person the liver of another person who has died. Surgery in which a damaged liver is replaced with a healthy liver from a donor. The procedure is performed in cases of liver failure, a condition in which the liver can no longer perform important functions, such as eliminating toxins,…

A little brown patch on the skin of the backs of the hands, attributed to sun damage. A local brown discoloration on the skin known medically as senile lentigo. The term is sometimes also used for chloasma and some medical sources also apply the term to pityriasis versicolor, a mild chronic infection of the skin,…

A parasitic flatworm which can infest the liver. A small flatworm that can invade the bile ducts of the liver. In the United States, the risk of infestation is confined to parts of the West and South and involves a specific type of fluke called Fasciola bepatica. This fluke is found in sheep feces and…