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Fomite
Fomite Objects, such as clothing, towels, and utensils that possibly harbor a disease agent and are capable of transmitting it.
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Disease
Illness or sickness often characterized by typical patient problems (symptoms) and physical findings (signs). Disruption sequence: The events that occur when a fetus that is developing normally is subjected to a destructive agent such as the rubella (German measles) virus.
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Fluorescein angiograms
Photographs of the back of the eye, taken after a fluorescent dye is placed in the blood stream.ÿ This is used to test the circulation in the retina of the eye.
Focal
Limited to one specific area.
Foci
Plural of focus. The origin or center of a disseminated disease.
Fellow
A doctor who has completed medical school, internship and a residency, and has chosen to receive very specialized training in one particular treatment or research area.
Fasciculation
Involuntary contractions, or twitchings, of groups (fasciculi) of muscle fibers, a coarser form of muscular contraction than fibrillation.
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Formalin
A 37% aqueous solution of formaldehyde.
Fulminant hepatitis
Severe, rapidly progressive loss of hepatic function due to viral infection or other cause of inflammatory destruction of liver tissue.
Final report
Complete, comprehensive description of a completed trial that describes the experimental materials and statistical design. It also presents and evaluates the trial results and statistical analyses.
Folate (folic acid)
A widely-distributed vitamin existing in a number of natural products; folate deficiency is associated with CHD and neural tube defects.
Frequentist methods
Statistical methods, such as significance tests and confidence intervals, which can be interpreted in terms of the frequency of certain outcomes occurring in hypothetical reported realisations of the same experimental situation.
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