Category: T

Amaurosis from optic neuritis caused by toxins that may be endogenous (as in diabetes) or exogenous (as in alcohol or tobacco).  

A device that makes it easier for people with sensory impairments to move freely in busy or unfamiliar environments.  

Inability to distinguish objects by touch.  

Action of a food, drug, or physical agent to cause a rise in output of body heat.  

Passive movement of a joint when a two-joint or multi-joint muscle is stretched across it.  

Severe acne caused by or aggravated by living in a hot, humid climate. The skin of the thorax, back, and legs is most commonly affected.  

A bile acid that yields cholic acid and taurine on hydrolysis.  

A mixture of digallic acid esters of D(+) glucose prepared from oak galls and sumac. It yields gallic acid and glucose on hydrolysis.  

A simple urine screening test, used principally in monitoring patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus, to determine the presence of ketoacidosis. To perform the test, the patient wets a specially treated paper or dipstick with urine. If ketones are present, the paper will change color within a specified time.  

A spontaneous abortion in which the fetus has been expelled through the distal end of the uterine tube. In an ectopic pregnancy, the embryo is expelled from the fallopian tube into the abdominal cavity.