STRIDOR—A harsh, high-pitched respiratory sound such as the inspiratory sound
often heard in acute laryngeal obstruction.
SUBCUTANEOUS—Under the skin.
SUBLINGUAL—Under the tongue.
SUPERFICIAL—Of or pertaining to the surface, lying on, not penetrating below.
SUPINE—Lying on the back.
SURGICAL ASEPTIC TECHNIQUE—The practice that renders and keeps
objects and areas free from all organisms.
SURGICALLY CLEAN—Clean but not sterile.
SUSCEPTIBLE—Not resistant. A person or animal who may acquire an infection
or disease when exposed to a specific agent, because his or her resistance to the
agent is lacking or reduced.
SUSPECT—A person who may have acquired a communicable disease; it is
indicated by the medical history and clinical presentation.
SUSPENSION—A coarse dispersion of finely divided insoluble material
suspended in a liquid medium.
SYNCOPE—Faintness or actual fainting.
SYNERGIST—A medicine that aids or cooperates with another.
SYRUP—Concentrated aqueous solutions of sucrose, containing flavoring or
medicinal substances.
TACHYCARDlA—Excessively rapid heart beat, usually over 100.
TAENIAFUGE—Adrug that expels tapeworms without necessarily killing them.
TENDON—A fibrous cord by which a muscle is attached to the skeleton.
THORACIC—Pertaining to or affecting the chest.
THROMBUS—A plug or clot in a blood vessel or in one of the cavities of the heart,
formed by coagulation of the blood. It remains where it was formed.
TINCTURE—Usually an alcoholic solution of animal or vegetable drugs.
TINNITUS—Ringing in the ears.
TOXEMIA—Poisonous products in the blood.
TOXICOLOGY—The science of poisons.
TOXINS—Poisons.
TRACHEOSTOMY—Surgically creating an opening into the trachea.
TRIAGE—Sorting casualties to determine priority of treatment.
TRITURATION—A process of reducing a solid to a very fine powder by grinding
in a mortar and pestle.
URTICARIA—Hives or welts.
UREMIA—A condition resulting from waste products not being removed
efficiently by the kidneys so that they remain in the blood.
VASCULAR—Pertaining to blood vessels.
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