Fabric: A textile structure composed of mechanically interlocked fibres or filaments.
Facet :. (1) A small articulating surface. (2) A small plane surface on a hard body.
Facial nerve: The seventh cranial
nerve.
Factitious: Artificial; not natural.
Factors: (1) Any of several substances or activities that are necessary to produce a result. (2) Algebric symbols multiplied together to form a result. (3) A coefficient or conversion factor. (4) A gene.
- Animal protein factor: An
element in animal proteins essential for growth.
- Antianemia factor: A vitamin, folic acid, which prevents anemia
in chicks.
- Antiberiberi factor: Thiamine.
- Antiblock tongue factor: Niacin.
- Antidermatitis factor :
Pantothenic acid for chicks, pyridoxine for rats.
- Antifertility factor
Phosphorylated hesperidin.
-Anti pellagra factor: Niacin.
- Antipernicious
. Cyanocobalamin.
-Antirachitic factor: Vitamin D. - Antisterility factor: Vitamin E.
- Bone factor: In periodontal
disease, the systematic influence on alveolar bone loss in response to local inflammatory processes.
- Clotting factor: Substances in the blood that are essential to the
clotting factor.
- Diffusion factor: Hyaluronidase. - Extrinsic factor: Vitamin B12. - Transfer factor: A dialyzable
extract obtained from blood
lymphocytes.
Facultative: (1) Capable of adaptation to different conditions. (2) A bacterium that can grow either aerobically or anaerobically.
FAD: Flavin adenine dinucleotide. Faeces (Feces) : A semi-solid, paste-like mass.
Fahrenheit: The scale of temperature in which 212° is the boiling point of water at 760 mm Hg, and 32° is the freezing point of water. Failure: Inability to perform.
- Heart failure: A chemical
syndrome due to disturbance in cardiac output or from increased venous pressure
anaemia
Fainting: A temporatory loss of consciousness.
Falcular: Sickle-shaped.
Falciparum malaria: A severe form of malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum characterized by pyroxysm occurring at irregular intervals.
Fallopian tube (uterine tube) : Tubes attached at one end to the womb and have the other unattached near ovary .
Family: A group of genera; classification of plants and animals. Fang: Root of a tooth; caine tooth especially of dog, cat, etc. or the enenomed tooth of a serpent. Farad: The International System unit of electrical capacitance.
Famesene : A sesquiterpene
hydrocarbon, obtained by reduction of farnesol.
Famesol : An unsaturated, colourless sesquiterpene alcohol,
found in nature in many flowers and essential oils.
Fascia: An envelope of fibrous connective tissue. .
Fascia lata: Surgical suture prepared
from bovine thigh muscle.
Fasicular cambium: Cambium si~ated within the vascular bundle. Fasciculation: (1) Tbe formation of fasciculi. (2) A small local contraction of muscles. Fasciculus: A small bundle or cluster.
Fascilitis (Fascitis) : Inflammation offascia.
Fast : (1) Immovable or unchangeable; resistant to the action of a specific drug. (2) Abstention from food.
- Acid fast colour : Not decolourized
on treatment with an acid.
- Arug fast: Relating to micro
organisms that resist to an
antibacterial agent.
Fat: (1) Esters of glycerol. with higher long-chain fatty acids such as palmitic, stearic and oleic acids, insoluble in water, soluble in ether, cholorform, etc. (2) Adipose tissue which forms soft pads between various organs of the body.
Fatal: Causing death; deadly; mortal; lethal.
Fatigabllity : Easy susceptibility to fatigue.
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