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A souffle (English: / ˈ s uː f əl /) [a] is a vascular or cardiac murmur with a blowing quality when heard on auscultation. It is particularly used to describe vascular murmurs or transmitter heart sounds which occur during pregnancy, either from the uterus and breasts of the mother, or from the fetus.
The main discussion of these abbreviations in the context of drug prescriptions and other medical prescriptions is at List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions. Some of these abbreviations are best not used, as marked and explained here.
This is a list of roots, suffixes, and prefixes used in medical terminology, their meanings, and their etymologies. Most of them are combining forms in Neo-Latin and hence international scientific vocabulary. There are a few general rules about how they combine.
A soufflé is a light, fluffy, baked dish made with egg yolks. It may also refer to: Soufflé (cookware), a ramekin for soufflés; Souffle (heart sound), medical term; Soufflé (programming language), a logic programming language influenced by Datalog; Souffles, Moroccan quarterly magazine of the 1960s; Lemon Souffle, a racehorse
Pronunciation follows convention outside the medical field, in which acronyms are generally pronounced as if they were a word (JAMA, SIDS), initialisms are generally pronounced as individual letters (DNA, SSRI), and abbreviations generally use the expansion (soln. = "solution", sup. = "superior").
By: Patti Cook, M.S., Ed.D. My first soufflé, enjoyed at Tavern on the Green in New York's Central Park in 1977, was a masterfully prepared dessert flavored with Grand Marnier. It arrived at the ...
The term geriatrics comes from the Greek γέρων geron meaning "old man", and ιατρός iatros meaning "healer". However, geriatrics is sometimes called medical gerontology. Gonad – A gonad, sex gland, or reproductive gland [193] is a mixed gland that produces the gametes (sex cells) and sex hormones of an organism.
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