Main Entry: aer·o·bic
Pronunciation: a(- )r- -bik, e(- )r-
Function: adjective
1 : living, active, or occurring only in the presence of oxygen <aerobic respiration>
2 : of, relating to, or induced by aerobes
3 a : of, relating to, or being activity which increases the body's demand for oxygen thereby resulting in a marked temporary increase in respiration and heart rate <aerobic exercise> b : relating to, resulting from, or used in aerobics or aerobic activity <aerobic shoes>
- aer·o·bi·cal·ly /-bi-k( -)l / adverb

Main Entry: 1ad·re·nal
Pronunciation: - dr n- l
Function: adjective
: of, relating to, or derived from the adrenal glands or their secretion
- ad·re·nal·ly /- l- / adverb

Main Entry: agent
Pronunciation: -j nt
Function: noun
1 : something that produces or is capable of producing an effect
2 : a chemically, physically, or biologically active principle -- see OXIDIZING AGENT, REDUCING AGENT

Main Entry: ac·ne
Pronunciation: ak-n
Function: noun
: a disorder of the skin caused by inflammation of the skin glands and hair follicles; specifically : a form found chiefly in adolescents and marked by pimples especially on the face
- ac·ned /-n d/ adjective

Main Entry: an·aer·o·bic
Pronunciation: an- - r -bik; an- a(- )r- -, - e(- )r-
Function: adjective
1 a : living, active, or occurring in the absence of free oxygen <during heavy exercise anaerobic respiration occurs, pyruvic acid acts as a hydrogen acceptor, and lactic acid builds up in the tissues> b : of, relating to, or being activity in which the body incurs an oxygen debt <anaerobic sports> <an anaerobic workout>
2 : relating to or induced by anaerobes
- an·aer·o·bi·cal·ly /-bi-k( -)l / adverb

Main Entry: an·gio·gen·e·sis
Pronunciation: - jen- -s s
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -e·ses /- s z/
: the formation and differentiation of blood vessels
- an·gio·gen·ic /- jen-ik/ adjective

Main Entry: apop·to·sis
Pronunciation: ap- (p)- t -sis, -äp-, - -; -päp-
Function: noun
: a genetically determined process of cell self-destruction that is marked by the fragmentation of nuclear DNA, is activated either by the presence of a stimulus or by the removal of a stimulus or suppressing agent, is a normal physiological process eliminating DNA-damaged, superfluous, or unwanted cells (as immune cells targeted against the self in the development of self-tolerance or larval cells in amphibians undergoing metamorphosis), and when halted (as by genetic mutation) may result in uncontrolled cell growth and tumor formation -- called also programmed cell death
- apop·tot·ic /- tät-ik/ adjective

Main Entry: ath·ero·scle·ro·sis
Pronunciation: ath- -r -skl - r -s s
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -ro·ses /- s z/
: an arteriosclerosis characterized by atheromatous deposits in and fibrosis of the inner layer of the arteries
- ath·ero·scle·rot·ic /-skl - rät-ik/ adjective
- ath·ero·scle·rot·i·cal·ly /-i-k( -)l / adverb

Main Entry: ax·il·la
Pronunciation: ag- zil- , ak- sil-
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -lae /-( ) , - /; or -las
: the cavity beneath the junction of the arm or anterior appendage and shoulder or pectoral girdle containing the axillary artery and vein, a part of the brachial plexus of nerves, many lymph nodes, and fat and areolar tissue; especially : ARMPIT

Main Entry: Bar·rett's esophagus
Pronunciation: bar-its-, ber-
Function: noun
: metaplasia of the lower esophagus that is characterized by replacement of squamous epithelium with columnar epithelium, occurs especially as a result of chronic gastroesophageal reflux, and is associated with an increased risk for esophageal carcinoma -- called also Barrett's epithelium
Barrett, Norman Rupert (1903-1979), British surgeon. Barrett's numerous positions included those of surgeon at King Edward VII Sanatorium, Midhurst, and at London's St. Thomas's and Brompton Hospitals; lecturer in surgery at the University of London; and examiner in surgery at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Birmingham, London, and Khartoum. He also served as editor of Thorax and contributed to several surgery textbooks.

Main Entry: 1co·ag·u·late
Pronunciation: k - ag-y - l t
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -lat·ed; -lat·ing
transitive verb
1 : to cause to become viscous or thickened into a coherent mass : CLOT <blood platelets that coagulate blood -- Sonni Efron> <rennin coagulates milk>
2 : to subject to coagulation <high-frequency radio waves used to cut and coagulate tissue -- Alan Goldstein>
intransitive verb : to become coagulated : undergo coagulation
- co·ag·u·la·bil·i·ty /k - ag-y -l - bil- t- / noun
- co·ag·u·la·ble /- ag-y -l -b l/ adjective

Main Entry: condyloma acu·mi·na·tum
Pronunciation: - - kyü-m - n t- m
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural condylomata acu·mi·na·ta /- n t- /
: GENITAL WART

Main Entry: es·tro·gen
Pronunciation: es-tr -j n
Variant(s): or chiefly British oes·tro·gen / -str -j n/
Function: noun
: any of various natural steroids (as estradiol) that are formed from androgen precursors, that are secreted chiefly by the ovaries, placenta, adipose tissue, and testes, and that stimulate the development of female secondary sex characteristics and promote the growth and maintenance of the female reproductive system; also : any of various synthetic or semisynthetic steroids (as ethinyl estradiol) that mimic the physiological effect of natural estrogens

Main Entry: en·do·me·tri·al
Pronunciation: en-d - m -tr - l
Function: adjective
: of, belonging to, or consisting of endometrium

Main Entry: en·do·me·tri·um
Pronunciation: - m -tr - m
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -tria /-tr - /
: the mucous membrane lining the uterus that is composed of three layers -- see STRATUM BASALE, STRATUM COMPACTUM, STRATUM SPONGIOSUM

Main Entry: fun·gal
Pronunciation: f -g l
Function: adjective
1 : of, relating to, or having the characteristics of fungi
2 : caused by a fungus <fungal infections>

Main Entry: genital wart
Function: noun
: a wart on the skin or adjoining mucous membrane usually near the anus and genital organs -- called also condyloma, condyloma acuminatum, venereal wart

Main Entry: herpes sim·plex
Pronunciation: - sim- pleks
Function: noun
: either of two viral diseases caused by herpesviruses of the genus Simplexvirus that are marked especially by watery blisters on the skin or mucous membranes of the lips, mouth, face, or genital region

Main Entry: herpes zos·ter
Pronunciation: - zäs-t r
Function: noun
: SHINGLES

Main Entry: hepatitis C
Pronunciation: - s
Function: noun
: hepatitis caused by a single-stranded RNA virus of the family Flaviviridae (species Hepatitis C virus of the genus Hepacivirus) that tends to persist in the blood serum and is usually transmitted by infected blood (as by injection of an illicit drug, blood transfusion, or exposure to blood or blood products) and that accounts for most cases of non-A, non-B hepatitis

Main Entry: hepatitis D
Pronunciation: - d
Function: noun
: hepatitis that is similar to hepatitis B and is caused by coinfection with the hepatitis B virus and hepatitis D virus -- called also delta hepatitis

Main Entry: in·tra·duc·tal
Pronunciation: in-tr - d kt- l
Function: adjective
: situated within, occurring within, or introduced into a duct <intraductal carcinoma>

Main Entry: Ka·po·si's sarcoma
Pronunciation: kap- -z z-, k - p -, -s z-
Function: noun
: a neoplastic disease affecting especially the skin and mucous membranes, characterized especially by the formation of pink to reddish-brown or bluish tumorous plaques, macules, papules, or nodules especially on the lower extremities, and formerly limited primarily to elderly men in whom it followed a benign course but now being a major and sometimes fatal disease associated with immunodeficient individuals with AIDS -- abbreviation KS
Ka·po·si / k -p -sh / , Moritz (1837-1902), Hungarian dermatologist. Kaposi taught and practiced at a leading clinic of dermatology in Vienna. He was the author of a number of original descriptions of skin diseases including the condition now known as Kaposi's sarcoma.

Main Entry: lactic acid
Function: noun
: a hygroscopic organic acid C3H6O3 that is known in three optically isomeric forms: a or L-lactic acid / el-/ : the dextrorotatory form present normally in blood and muscle tissue as a product of the anaerobic metabolism of glucose and glycogen b or D-lactic acid / d -/ : the levorotatory form obtained by biological fermentation of sucrose c or DL-lactic acid / d - el-/ : the racemic form present in food products and made usually by bacterial fermentation (as of whey or raw sugar) but also synthetically, and used chiefly in foods and beverages, in medicine, in tanning and dyeing, and in making esters for use as solvents and plasticizers

Main Entry: lip·id
Pronunciation: lip- d
Variant(s): also lip·ide /- d/
Function: noun
: any of various substances that are soluble in nonpolar organic solvents (as chloroform and ether), that with proteins and carbohydrates constitute the principal structural components of living cells, and that include fats, waxes, phospholipids, cerebrosides, and related and derived compounds

Main Entry: li·po·pro·tein
Pronunciation: - pr - t n, - pr t- - n
Function: noun
: any of a large class of conjugated proteins composed of a complex of protein and lipid -- see HDL, LDL, VLDL

Main Entry: me·so·the·li·o·ma
Pronunciation: mez- - th -l - -m , m z-, m s-, mes-
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -mas also -ma·ta /-m t- /
: a tumor derived from mesothelial tissue (as that lining the peritoneum or pleura)

Main Entry: met·a·sta·tic
Pronunciation: met- - stat-ik
Function: adjective
1 : of, relating to, or caused by metastasis <cutaneous metastatic disease as the first sign of lung cancer>
2 : tending to metastasize <determine what makes some cancer cells more metastatic than others -- J. L. Marx>
- met·a·stat·i·cal·ly /-i-k( -)l / adverb

Main Entry: me·tas·ta·sis
Pronunciation: m - tas-t -s s
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -ta·ses /- s z/
1 a : change of position, state, or form b : the spread of a disease-producing agency (as cancer cells or bacteria) from the initial or primary site of disease to another part of the body <metastases of breast cancer to bone -- Medical Physics>; also : the process by which such spreading occurs
2 : a secondary malignant tumor resulting from metastasis

Main Entry: MRSA
Pronunciation: em- är- es-
Function: noun
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus : any of several bacterial strains of the genus Staphylococcus (S. aureus) that are resistant to beta-lactam antibiotics (as methicillin and nafcillin) and that are typically benign colonizers of the skin and mucous membranes (as of the nostrils) but may cause severe infections (as by entrance through a surgical wound) especially in immunocompromised individuals

Main Entry: macular degeneration
Function: noun
: progressive deterioration of the macula lutea resulting in a gradual loss of the central part of the field of vision; especially : AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION

Main Entry: noc·tu·ria
Pronunciation: näk- t(y) r- -
Function: noun
: urination at night especially when excessive -- called also nycturia

Main Entry: oes·tro·gen chiefly British or es·tro·gen: es-tr -j n
Pronunciation: -str -j n/
Function: noun
: any of various natural steroids (as estradiol) that are formed from androgen precursors, that are secreted chiefly by the ovaries, placenta, adipose tissue, and testes, and that stimulate the development of female secondary sex characteristics and promote the growth and maintenance of the female reproductive system; also : any of various synthetic or semisynthetic steroids (as ethinyl estradiol) that mimic the physiological effect of natural estrogens

Main Entry: pap·il·lo·ma
Pronunciation: pap- - l -m
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -mas also -ma·ta /-m t- /
: a benign tumor (as a wart or condyloma) resulting from an overgrowth of epithelial tissue on papillae of vascularized connective tissue (as of the skin) -- see PAPILLOMAVIRUS

Main Entry: peri·odon·tal
Pronunciation: per- - - dänt- l
Function: adjective
1 : investing or surrounding a tooth
2 : of or affecting the periodontium <periodontal infection>
- peri·odon·tal·ly /- l- / adverb

Main Entry: pho·to·sen·si·tize
Pronunciation: - sen(t)-s - t z
Variant(s): also British pho·to·sen·si·tise
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -tized also British -tised; -tiz·ing also British -tis·ing
: to make sensitive to the influence of radiant energy and especially light
- pho·to·sen·si·tiz·er noun

Main Entry: por·phyr·ia
Pronunciation: p r- fir- -
Function: noun
: any of several usually hereditary abnormalities of porphyrin metabolism characterized by excretion of excess porphyrins in the urine and by extreme sensitivity to light

Main Entry: pso·ri·a·sis
Pronunciation: s - r - -s s
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -a·ses /- s z/
: a chronic skin disease characterized by circumscribed red patches covered with white scales

Main Entry: re·cal·ci·trant
Pronunciation: ri- kal-s -tr nt
Function: adjective
: not responsive to treatment <severe recalcitrant psoriasis> <recalcitrant warts>

Main Entry: shin·gles
Pronunciation: shi -g lz
Function: noun plural but singular in construction
: an acute viral inflammation of the sensory ganglia of spinal and cranial nerves associated with a vesicular eruption and neuralgic pain and caused by reactivation of the herpesvirus causing chicken pox -- called also herpes zoster, zona, zoster

Main Entry: squa·mous
Pronunciation: skw -m s
Function: adjective
1 a : covered with or consisting of scales b : of, relating to, or being a stratified epithelium that consists at least in its outer layers of small scalelike cells
2 : resembling a scale or plate; especially : of, relating to, or being the thin anterior upper portion of the temporal bone

Main Entry: tinea cru·ris
Pronunciation: - kr r- s
Function: noun
: a fungal infection involving especially the groin and perineum

Main Entry: tinea pe·dis
Pronunciation: - ped- s
Function: noun
ringworm of the feet
: ATHLETE'S FOOT