Medications

Feeding tube - Medical

Feeding tube: See: Enteral nutrition.Last Editorial Review: 10/1/2004 Enteral nutrition: A way to provide food through a tube placed in the nose, the stomach, or the small intestine. A tube in the nose is called a nasogastric tube or nasoenteral tub...

Feedback - Medical

Feedback: Many biologic processes are controlled by feedback, just as the temperature in a home from a furnace is regulated by a thermostat.Last Editorial Review: 4/27/2011 5:27:15 PM...

Feed contaminant - Medical

Feed contaminant: A substance contaminating animal feed. Contaminants in animal feed can threaten human health. There are two classes of feed contaminants. Contaminants that are naturally occurring -- This class of feed contaminants is made up of...

Fee for service - Medical

Fee for service (FFS): In health care, a payment mechanism in which a provider is paid for each individual service rendered to a patient. Last Editorial Review: 12/21/1999 9:46:00 PM...

Federal Emergency Management Agency - Medical

Federal Emergency Management Agency: Better known as FEMA, an agency of the US government dedicated to rapid response to disasters, both man-made and natural ones (such as floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes). FEMA provides financial assistance to in...

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Fecundity - Medical

Fecundity: The ability to have children, usually lots of them with ease. Etymology:"Fecundity" comes from the Latin "fecundus" meaning fruitful. "Fecundity" emphasizes abundance or rapidity in bearing offspring (or fruit). Last Editorial Review...

Fecund - Medical

Fecund: Fruitful, abundantly fertile. Just as a writer is prolific, a woman may be fecund, able to reproduce plentifully. Etymology:"Fecund" comes (minus the final "us") from the Latin "fecundus" meaning fruitful. "Fecund" emphasizes abundance or r...

Feces - Medical

Feces: The medical and scientific 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" mer...

pramoxine with hydrocortisone-rectal foam

Fecalith - Medical

Fecalith: A hard stony mass of feces. A fecalith can obstruct the appendix, leading to appendicitis. Fecaliths also can obstruct diverticuli. Called also a coprolith and stercolith. From fecal + -lith for stone. Last Editorial Review: 5/28/2003...

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Fecal occult blood test - Medical

Fecal occult blood test: A test to check for hidden blood in the feces. Fecal refers to stool. Occult means hidden. Fecal occult blood may be due to a number of causes. The source of the bleeding may be anywhere in the gastrointestinal tract. Abbrevi...

Fecal incontinence - Medical

Fecal incontinence: Inability to hold feces in the rectum. This is due to failure of voluntary control over the anal sphincters permitting untimely passage of feces and gas. Also called rectal incontinence.Last Editorial Review: 4/27/2011 5:27:15 PM...

Fecal - Medical

Fecal: Relating to the feces, the stool. The excrement discharged from the intestines. From the Latin "faex" and "faecis" meaning the dregs or sediment.Last Editorial Review: 8/29/2001 12:16:00 PM Feces: The medical and scientific term for the &...

Febrile seizure - Medical

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.Last Editorial Review: 4/27/...

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Febrile herpes - Medical

Febrile herpes: A small sore situated on the face or in the mouth that causes pain, burning, or itching before bursting and crusting over. The favorite locations are on the lips (the labia), chin or cheeks and in the nostrils. Less frequented sit...

Febrile - Medical

Febrile: Feverish. Last Editorial Review: 4/27/2011 5:27:15 PM...

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Fear of worms (parasitic) - Medical

Fear of worms (parasitic): An abnormal and persistent fear of being infested with parasitic worms called helminths. The technical term for this fear is helminthphobia. The eggs of parasitic worms can contaminate air and water, particularly wher...

Fear of work - Medical

Fear of work: An abnormal and persistent fear of work. Sufferers of this fear experience undue anxiety about the workplace environment even though they realize their fear is irrational. Their fear may actually be a combination of fears, such fear...

potassium-sodium acid phosphate-oral K-Phos

Fear of women - Medical

Fear of women: An abnormal, irrational and persistent fear of women. Sufferers experience undue anxiety even though they realize they face no threat. Fear of women is termed "gynephobia," a word derived from the Greek "gyne" (woman) and "phobos" (f...

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Fear of water - Medical

Fear of water: An abnormal and persistent fear of water. Sufferers of aquaphobia experience anxiety even though they realize the water in an ocean, a river, a lake, a creek or even a bathtub may pose no imminent threat. They generally avoid such ac...

Fear of vomiting - Medical

Fear of vomiting: An abnormal and persistent fear of vomiting. Sufferers of this fear experience undue anxiety even though they realize their fear is irrational. They usually are especially worried about vomiting in public and embarrassing themselves...

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Fear of travel - Medical

Fear of travel: An irrational and unreasonable fear of travel is called agoraphobia. Agoraphobia is a very complex phobia. It usually manifests as a collection of inter-linked phobias. For example, many agoraphobics fear being left alone (monopho...