Category: M

The common house fly. It may mechanically transmit the causative agents of typhoid fever, bacillary and amebic dysentery, cholera, trachoma, and many other diseases to humans.  

A genus of flies belonging to the order Diptera, family Muscidae.  

Mechanical device used for intestinal anastomosis consisting of two buttonlike hollow cylinders. Each cylinder is sutured to an open end of the intestine, then they are fitted together. After firm union of the ends of the intestine, the sutures separate and the cylinders are passed in stools.  

A cardiac murmur with sounds that have an intermittent harmonic pattern.  

A murmur produced at the orifice of the mitral (bicuspid) valve.  

An enzyme found in blood cells of the granulocytic and monocytic series. Its serum and urine level is increased in patients with acute or chronic leukemia. It is also normally present in saliva, sweat, and tears. Also called lysozyme.  

A method used before the advent of ultrasonography to assess cephalopelvic disproportion, by manually comparing the size of the fetal head with that of the maternal pelvic brim.  

A sterile preparation of attenuated mumps virus used to immunize against mumps.  

Providing several sets of terminals, making possible the use of several electrodes.  

In dentistry, referring to a tooth having several roots.