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Tennis thumb
Calcification and inflammation of the tendon of the flexor pollicis longus muscle owing to repeated irritation and stress while playing tennis.
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Thrypsis
A fracture in which the bone is splintered or crushed.
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Substernal thrust
A palpable heaving of the chest in the substernal area. This is a physical finding detectable in some persons with right ventricular hypertrophy.
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Subdiaphragmatic abdominal thrust
Treatment for patients suspected of having a complete airway obstruction. For conscious, standing adults, it consists of upward and inward thrusts of the thumb side of the rescuer’s closed fist, coming from behind the victim, in the area between the umbilicus and the xiphoid process.
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Abdominal thrust
Treatment of airway obstruction that consists of inward and upward thrusts of the thumb side of a closed fist in the area between the umbilicus and the xiphoid process. If the patient is conscious, the procedure is performed from behind the person standing; if the patient is unconscious, it can be performed while kneeling beside…
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Thrust
To move forward suddenly and forcibly, as in tongue thrust when the tongue is pushed against the teeth or alveolar ridge at the beginning of deglutition. This may cause open bite or malformed jaws.
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Throughput
In hospital management, the sum of the services provided by a health care institution per unit of time. It includes the number of patients treated, admitted, and discharged; the total number of procedures performed; and the quantity of laboratory or radiological services rendered. It is a measure of institutional volume or capacity and a determinant…
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White thrombus
A pale thrombus in any site; made up principally of platelets.
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Propagated thrombus
A thrombus that increases in size.
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Postmortem thrombus
Blood clot formed in the heart or a large blood vessel after death.
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