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pacemaker

Health care; Hospitals

A small battery powered device usually placed under the skin and joined to the heart by wires which measure the pulse and correct a heart rhythm that is too fast or too slow.

A small microorganism which cannot grow or reproduce apart from a living cell. A virus invades cells and uses their chemical machinery to keep itself alive and to replicate itself. It may reproduce ...

spasticity

Health care; Hospitals

A state of increased tone of a muscle (and an increase in the deep tendon reflexes). For example, with spasticity of the legs (spastic paraplegia) there is an increase in tone of the leg muscles so ...

shearing

Health care; Hospitals

A tearing or stretching of nerves or brain tissue that result from the brain twisting and hitting against the skull. Usually caused by sudden deceleration or stop like that involved in a car ...

vascath

Health care; Hospitals

A temporary central venous catheter that is used for leukopheresis or dialysis procedures. It is usually inserted into a large vein in the neck, chest, or the groin and is usually removed once the ...

packed red blood cells

Health care; Hospitals

A term referring to the blood product given as a transfusion containing only the red blood cells.

pus

Health care; Hospitals

A thick whitish-yellow fluid which results from the accumulation of white blood cells (WBCs), liquefied tissue and cellular debris. Pus is commonly a site of infection or foreign material in the ...