Category: S

An abnormal formation of skin.  

Chronic inflammatory disease of unknown cause, affecting women more frequently than men. Symptoms include arthritis, a red rash over the nose and cheeks (butterfly rash), fatigue, and weakness, followed by fever, photosensitivity, and skin lesions starting in the neck region and spreading to mucous membranes and other tissues, damaging the tissues involved. Glomerulonephritis, pericarditis, anemia,…

Act of moving food from the mouth through the pharynx and esophagus to the stomach. The process by which food is transferred from the mouth to the esophagus; deglutition. In swallowing, the tongue is raised within the mouth to push the food back toward the throat, thus stimulating reflex actions in which the larynx at…

Condition of being easily affected by a disease-causing organism; condition of being more than normally vulnerable. The state of being receptive to infection or disease. A person’s receptivity to disease or infection. Susceptibility is influenced by several general human characteristics, such as the ability of the person’s immune system to respond to specific pathogens that…

Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agent used in the treatment of osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and ankylosing spondylitis. Adverse effects include tinnitus, dizziness, skin rash, gastrointestinal upsets, and the possibility of drag interactions. A drug used to treat arthritis; one of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID). Sulindac (Clinoril) is used to relieve inflammation, swelling, stiffness, joint pain from rheumatoid…

Topical sulfonamide most commonly used to prevent infection from injury to the cornea and to treat eye infections. Adverse effects include local irritation. A drug of the sulfonamide group that is used in eye drops to treat such infections as conjunctivitis. Transient irritation may occur with higher doses.  

Any of several million structures in the skin that produce sweat (perspiration). Most of the glands are eccrine, producing sweat that contains salt and the waste product urea; a few, associated with the hair of the armpits and pubic region, are apocrine, secreting a thicker fluid. Excrete perspiration and detoxify the body by excreting excess…

Involuntary sucking movement of newborns.  

To provide nourishment, especially by breastfeeding.  

Blister-like pads on the lips of newborns that form as the baby begins to suck and seem to help to seal the lips around the nipple.