The adjective trakheia, "rough," entered modern English as trachea, the current medical term for the windpipe. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing ...
carry blood and only the windpipe and bronchial tubes carry air. To specify the windpipe, they coined the phraseartēriā trakheia,"rough artery," referring to its rough cartilaginous structure. The adjectivetrakheia,"rough," entered modern English astrachea,the current medical term for the ...
Medical cannabis means the same as that term is defined in Section 26-61a-102. Occupational disease means a disease contracted in the course of employment, which by its causes and the characteristics of its manifestation or the condition of the employment results in a hazard which distinguishes ...
Ancient Greeks were familiar with the importance of carotid arteries. In the fourth century BCE, Hippocrates gave the correct definition of the termapoplexy—“to strike down”, along with description of stroke and its symptoms. He also concluded that carotidartery lesionsmay lead tocontralateralhemi...
In the wider scheme of things, all the intraocular branches of the CRA are actually arterioles (as they don't possess an internal elastic lamina), but the term artery has been used to describe the afferent components of the retinal vasculature for well over a century (His, 1880). At what...
Caffeine can bring on the jitters, but there is no evidence that it can cause long-term hypertension. However, a caffeinated beverage might bring on a temporary rise in blood pressure. It is possible that caffeine could block a hormone that helps keep arteries widened, which causes blood press...
such as carotid intima-media thickness or plaques. There are few studies focused on H-type hypertension and asymptomatic carotid artery atherosclerotic disease, especially asymptomatic ECAS. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first community-based, prospective, long-term follow-up study...
7 min read Carotid artery diseaseis also calledcarotid arterystenosis. The term refers to the narrowing of the carotidarteries. This narrowing is usually caused by the buildup of fatty substances and cholesterol deposits, called plaque. Carotid artery occlusion refers to complete blockage of the art...
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In patients undergoing chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), stenting demonstrated improved long-term survival and fewer cardiac arrests at one year. The late-breaking data were presented ... May 1, 2025 0 0 Diabetes No needles needed: Wearable glucose monitors...