Glossary
- ELECTROMYOGRAPHY (EMG)
- A method of recording the electrical currents generated in a muscle during its contraction.
- ENCEPHALOCELE
- Protrusion of the brain through a cranial fissure.
- ENDARTERECTOMY
- Removal of fatty or cholesterol plaques and calcified deposits from the internal wall of an artery.
- ENDOCRINE GLAND
- A gland which furnishes an internal secretion, usually having an effect on another organ.
- ENDOCRINOPATHY
- Any disease due to abnormality of quantity or quality in one or more of the internal glandular secretions.
- ENDOGENOUS
- Arising within or derived from the body.
- ENDOSCOPE
- A medical device for viewing internal portions of the body. It is usually comprised of fiber optic tubes and video display instruments.
- ENDOSCOPY
- Inspection of internal body structures or cavities using an endoscope.
- EPENDYMA
- The membrane lining the cerebral ventricles of the brain and central canal of the spinal cord.
- EPENDYMOMA
- A growth in the brain or spinal cord arising from ependymal tissue. Tumor of the spinal cord.
- EPIDURAL
- Immediately outside the dura mater. Same as extradural.
- EPIDURAL HEMATOMA
- A blood clot between the dura mater and the inside of the skull.
- EPILEPSY
- Disorder characterized by abnormal electrical discharges in the brain, causing abnormal sensation, movement or level of consciousness.
- ESOPHAGUS
- Portion of the gut between the mouth and in the anterior neck.
- EXCISION
- Removal by cutting away material.
- EXOGENOUS
- Originating outside of the body.
- EXTENSION
- The act of bringing the distal portion of a joint in continuity (though only parallel) with the long axis of the proximal portion.
- EXTRADURAL
- EXTRUSION
- Displaced material reaches the spinal canal through fibers of the annulus, but remains connected to the central dis material.
- FACECTOMY
- Excision of an articular facet of a vertebra.
- FACET
- a flat, platelike surface that acts as part of a joint; as seen in the vertebrae of the spine and in the subtalar joint of the ankle. Each vertebra has two superior and two inferior facets.
- Facet Arthropathy
- a degenerative disease affecting the facet joint.
- FACET TROPISM
- Asymmetrical orientation of the facets comparing right to left side.
- FAILURE of SEGMENTATION
- Failure of a portion or all of two or more adjoining vertebrae to separate into normal units.
- FALX (CEREBRI)
- An extension of dura between the right and left hemispheres of the brain.
- FATIGUE
- That state, following a period of mental or bodily activity; characterized by a lessened capacity for work and reduced efficiency of accomplishment, usually accompained by a feeling of weariness, sleepiness, or irritability.
- FATIGUE FRACTURE
- A fracture that occurs in bone or in other materials. Including metal, as a result of repeated stress as opposed to a single injury.
- FENESTRATION (of cyst)
- Surgical creation of window-like opening.
- FIBROMYOSITIS
- Chronic inflammation of a muscle with an overgrowth, or hyperplasia, of the connective tissue.
- FIBROSIS
- The replacement of normal tissue with scar tissue.
