Category: T

Being unable to hear any sound at all.  

Treating the whole body with radiation. A process which subjects the entire body to irradiation, used in the treatment of certain cancers or to eliminate rejection of a transplanted organ or tissues.  

Complete. Throughout the whole body.  

The main part of the body, not including the arms, legs and head.  

The twisting of something, or a twisted state. The stress placed on an object which has been twisted. Twisting of an object. Torsion is a factor in several medical conditions. For example, a torsion fracture, also called spiral fracture, refers to a bone that is broken because it has been twisted. Torsion also refers to…

A condition in which someone seems sleepy or slow to react. State of decreased responsiveness and sluggishness; occurring in some mental disorders, some types of poisoning, and some metabolic disorders; also called torbidity. A state of sluggishness and diminished responsiveness: a characteristic of certain mental disorders and a symptom of certain forms of poisoning or…

Describing a part of the body that has lost the ability to move or feel. Sluggish movements and/or slowed reactions due to neurological pathology such as drug side effects, anoxia, or brain trauma, also, sluggish or delayed responses associated with Parkinson’s disease.  

Referring to topography.  

By putting on a specific external part of the body only.  

A drug which is applied to a specific external part of the body only.