[dialecticEng.mump,alumporbump] FarlexPartnerMedicalDictionary©Farlex2012 ep·i·dem·ic pa·rot·i·di·tis ,epidemicparotitis(ep'i-dem'ik pă-rot'i-dī'tis, par-ō-tītis) Anacuteinfectiousandcontagiousdiseasecausedby aparamyxovirusandcharacterizedbyfever,inflammationandswellingoftheparotidgland,...
mump, a lump or bump] Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012 mumps (mŭmps) pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) An acute, inflammatory, contagious disease caused by a paramyxovirus and characterized by swelling of the salivary glands, especially the parotids, and sometimes...
(1) Any pathological or traumatic discontinuity of tissue or loss of function of a part; a wounded or damaged area; an anatomic or functional tissue defect; an area of abnormal tissue change. (2) A nebulous, nonspecific term used by a doctor when discussing a lump or bump with a patient...
A generic term for a benign or malignant lump or bump in the breast. Cancer risks by breast lesion No proliferative disease; no increased cancer risk • Apocrine change; • Adenosis including florid; • Duct ectasia; • Mild epithelial hyperplasia of usual type. ...
The most commonly used medical term for a small node, bump, swelling, or protuberance. Segen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved. nodule A small node, bump, swelling, protuberance. See Apple jelly nodule, Cold nodule, Hot nodule, Pseudorheumatoid nodule, Renal no...
the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine. "And it shows that, if a patient with a history of childhood cancer later presents with a lump and a bump anywhere on their body, you need to be more suspicious of sarcoma than you would be for someone in the general population."...
A rhinoplasty (commonly termed a nose job) is a procedure in which the nose is reshaped to correct crookedness, or remove a bump or lump, or simply reduced in size to better fit the facial structure. It is usually not done on patients younger than 15 years of age. Recovery takes about...
The lump is defined as any protrusion or abnormal enlargement that develops under the skin or above the skin. It is a common occurrence among the general population which at times causes an alarm to the patient for the fear of something else besides being harmless. ...
Most of the times, this problem occurs when you are on a long-term treatment of acne with antibiotics. The bacteria present in the human nose are usually harmless under normal conditions. But with antibiotics treatment, the bacterial balance can become altered thereby leading to an overgrowth of...
PrognoScan uses ε = 0.1 to avoid small groupings from cutpoints of < 0.1 or > 0.9 quantile. For any given gene, this cutpoint determination and prog- nostic value assessment can be applied to all possible combinations of dataset, endpoint and probe. For con- venience, we term each ...