Category: T

To look after someone.  

To be like one or other parent.    

To swallow a medicine. To do particular actions. (Of graft) to be accepted by the body. To be affective, as in administering a vaccine; or to be successful in grafting skin or transplating an organ.  

Trade name for a preparation of cimetidine.  

A substance which makes tapeworms leave the body. An agent, such as dichlorophen, that eliminates tapeworms from the body of their host.  

The outer band of muscle running along the large intestine. The three bands of smooth muscle into which the longitudinal muscle layer of the colon is gathered. They are taenia mesocolica (mesenteric insertion), taenia libera (opposite mesocolic band), and taenia omentalis (at place of attachment of omentum to transverse colon).  

The loss of the sensation of touch.  

A powerful immunosuppressant drug used to reduce the risk of organ transplant rejection. An immunosuppressant drug. Tacrolimus (Prograf) is used to impair the body’s natural immune system function in a person who has received an organ transplant, such as a liver, kidney, pancreas, lung, or heart. Tacrolimus works by preventing white blood cells from rejecting…

Very fast breathing. An unusually rapid breathing rate, which could be due to factors like physical exertion, stress, or underlying lung or heart conditions.  

A particularly rapid way of speaking, as occurs with some people with mental disorders. Rapid and voluble speech, such as that encountered in mania. Excessive volubility or rapidity of speech, as seen in mania and some other psychotic illnesses. Excessive talkativeness; occasionally an indicator of mental illness.