Category: T

The final stage of syphilis in which the person has locomotor ataxia, general paralysis and mental deterioration. A late effect of syphilitic infection of the nervous system in which the patient shows features of tabes dorsalis and general paralysis of the insane. Muscle paralysis linked to tabes dorsalis.  

Wasting away or affected by tabes dorsalis. Pertaining to or suffering from tabes or tabes dorsalis.  

The wasting of glands in the abdomen. Emaciation and malnutrition caused by engorgement and tubercular degeneration of the mesenteric glands.  

The process of separating the components of a liquid in a centrifuge.  

Funds collected and used by the Federal government for carrying out specific purposes and programs according to terms of a trust agreement or statute, such as the social security and unemployment trust funds. Trust funds are administered by the government in a fiduciary capacity for those benefitted and are not available for the general purposes…

A facetious name for an insurance policy which is so hard to collect benefits upon that it is as though it provided benefits only for injuries resulting from being hit by a trolley car. Typically used of mail order insurance.  

Selected conditions or diseases chosen for appraisal in programs which seek to assess the quality of medical care because it is believed that the quality of care given for the tracers is typical or representative of the quality of care given generally or to all diseases. A substance, often a radioactive one, injected into a…

A review and evaluation of surgery performed in a hospital on the basis of agreement or disagreement among the preoperative, postoperative and pathological diagnoses. In particular, the pathological or tissue diagnosis is used to determine if the procedure was necessary Studies have shown that hospitals with tissue committees have lower rates of unnecessary surgery than…

A committee, which usually functions in a hospital setting, and reviews and evaluates all surgery performed in the hospital on the basis of the extent of agreement among the preoperative, postoperative, and pathological diagnoses; and on the relevance and acceptability of the procedures undertaken for the diagnosis. The name derives from the use of pathologic…

Drug products with essentially identical effects in treatment of some disease or condition. Such products are sometimes, but not necessarily, chemically equivalent or bio equivalent. Therapeutic equivalents are sometimes defined as chemically equivalent, and drugs with the same treatment effect, which are not chemically equivalent, called clinically equivalent. This is a useful distinction but inconsistently…