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Fluoride to Fovea
Fluoride: A binary compound of fluorine.
Fluorine: One of the halogen series of elements and a constituent of bone and teeth, used in toothpastes; nonmetaliic, gaseous, symbol F, atomic number 9; atomic weigh, 18.96.
Fluorosis: Condition due to ingestion of excessive amounts of fluorine causing defective bones and teeth.
Fluorometer: An apparatus for measuring the quality of rays given out by a roentgen-ray tube. Fluorometholone: A synthetic glucocortcoid, used as a topical anti-inflammatory .
Fluorouracil: A drug used to treat recurrent and inoperable carcinoma ofthe colon and rectum. Fluotracen hydrochloride: A tranquillizer and antidepressant agent.
Fluoxetine : An antidepressant agent.
Fluoxymesterone : An androgen, used to male hypogonadism. Fluphenazine: The most potent of the phenothiazine tranquillizer. Fluphenazine decanoate : A pale yellow compound, used as an antipsychotic agent. Fluprednisolone : A synthetic glucocorticoid, used as antiinflammatory agent.
Fluprostenol sodium: A hypnotic agent.
Flurbiprofen : Aq and-inflammatory and analgesic agent.
Flush: Transient, episodic redness of the face and neck caused by certain diseases, ingestion of some foods, . heat, emotional factors, etc;
Flutter: A form of abnormal cardiac rhythm in which the atria contract at a rate of between 200-400 beats a minute.
- Artrial Dutter: A condition of
cardiac arrhythmia in which the atrial contraction are rapid.
- Diaphragmatic Dutter: Peculiar, wave like fibrillations of the diaphragm.
- Yentricular Dutter: A transition stage between ventricular tachycardia and ventricular
fibrillation.
Flux : (1) An excessive flow or discharge. (2) A borax containing su~stance that maintains the cleanliness of metals to be united.
FMN : Flavin mononucleotide. Foams: A course dispersion of a gas in a liquid as a thin film.
Focus: The point of conveIgence of light rays.
Foeticide: A substance which destroys embryo inside uterus. Foetus: The child while still within the womb.
Foliaceae : The frondose vascular cryptogams leaf-like structures. Folic acid: One of the constitutent of the vitamin B complex.
Follicle: A dry, one-celled capsular fruit dehiscing longitudinally by a suture on one side.
Folliculitis: Inflammation of a follicle.
Fomentation: Any warm application to the surface of the body in the form ora cloth.
Food: Anything which serves to nourish the body, or builds up the tissues or supplies body heat.
Foramen: A natural opening or hole perforating a bone.
Force: Energy, or power. Forceps: An instrument with two blades and a handle for compressing tissues in surgical operation.
Forearm: The part of the upper limb of the body between elbow and wrist. Forensic: (1) A public place, market
place or place of assembly for judicial and other business. (2) Something decided at a forum or by a public.
Forensic pharmacy: Application of pharmaceutical knowledge to legal problems.
Formaldehyde: HCHO, an aldehyde gas which has powerful antiseptic property .
Forinalin : A formaldehyde solution containing 34-38% of HCHO in water.
Formamide : A colourless, hygroscopic oily liquid prepared by interaction of ethyl formate and ammonia with subsequent
distiUation.
Formate: A salt of formic acid which contains the monovalent radical HCOO-.
Formic acid: HCOOH, a colourless, fuming liquid obtained from oxalic acid or oxidation of formaldehyde; used as a food preservatives.
Formula: A specific statement, using numerals and other .symbols, for preparing a compound.
-Arrhenius formula: log x = ec, where x = viscosity of the solution, c = percentage of volume of suspended particles, e = a constant.
- Decomposition formula: A chemical formula for reaction of splitting up a compound.
- Empirical formula: A chemical formula which expresses the proportions of the elements present in a substance.
- Molecular formula: One that expresses defmite number of atoms of each element composing the molecule.
- Official formula: One officiaUy established by a pharmacopeia or other recognized authority.
- Structural formula: Formula expressing relative positions of
atoms and groups.
Formulary: A coUection of fonnulae or recipes.
Formulation: A medicine containing one or more bulk drugs; selection of components of a product fonnula to provide optimum specific properties.
Formyl: The radical, HCO- of formic acid.
Formyltransferase: An enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of a fonnyl group from a donor to an acceptor compound.
Forum: A place where everybody is given an opportunity to debate. Fossa: A hollowed-out area or
depression in the surface of a bone. Fossula: A small fossa.
Fovea: A pit or depression. Foveola: A small pit.
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