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Medical Dictionary Terms Beginning with F
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Fauces
Fauces: The throat. The word fauces is the plural of the Latin faux meaning a small passage.more detail info...
Fava bean
Fava bean: The broad bean to which many people react adversely with an acute hemolytic anemia with sudden breakup of red blood cells (see Favism). Fava beans look like large tan lima beans. They are popular in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisines,more detail info...
Favism
Favism: A condition characterized by hemolytic anemia (breakup of red blood cells) after eating fava beans (Vicia fava) or being exposed to the pollen of the fava plant. This dangerous reaction occurs exclusively in people with a deficiency of the enzymore detail info...
Febrile
Febrile: Feverish.more detail info...
Febrile seizure
Febrile seizure: A convulsion that occurs in association with a rapid increase in body temperature. Febrile seizures are common in infants and young children and, fortunately, are usually of no lasting importance.more detail info...
Fecal occult blood test
Fecal occult blood test: A test to check for hidden blood in stool. (Fecal refers to stool. Occult means hidden.)more detail info...
Feces
Feces: The proper medical term for the &excrement discharged from the intestines.& The word &feces& (or its English version &faeces&) in Shakespeare in this context until the 17th century &feces& merely meant themore detail info...
Fecund
Fecund: Fruitful. Just as a writer is prolific, a woman may be fecund, able to reproduce plentifully.more detail info...
Fecundity
Fecundity: The ability to have children, usually lots of them with ease.more detail info...
Feedback
Feedback: Many biologic processes are controlled by feedback, just as the temperature in a home from a furnace is regulated by a thermostat.more detail info...
Feeding, breast
Feeding, breast: The ability of the breast to produce milk diminishes soon after childbirth without the stimulation of breastfeeding. Immunity factors in breast milk can help the baby to fight off infections. Breast milk contains vitamins, minerals, anmore detail info...
Feet
Feet: As a measure of length, the plural of foot. See Foot.more detail info...
Female
Female: The traditional definition of female was &an individual of the sex that bears young& or &that produces ova or eggs&. However, things are not so simple today. Female can be defined by physical appearance, by chromosome constimore detail info...
Femoral
Femoral: Having to do with the femur.more detail info...
Femur
Femur: The femur is a large bone of the lower extremity that extends from the hip to the knee.more detail info...
Fenstration
Fenstration: Literally, the making of a window -- fenestra in Latin (and fenetre in French) is a window -- fenestration refers to the creation of a new opening.more detail info...
Ferritin
Ferritin: A blood protein that serves as an indicator of the amount of iron stored in the body.more detail info...
Fertile
Fertile: Able to conceive and bear offspring.more detail info...
Fertility
Fertility: The ability to have children.more detail info...
Fertilization
Fertilization: Fertilization is the process of combining the male gamete, or &sperm,& with the female gamete, or &ovum.& The product of this combination is a cell called a zygote.more detail info...