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Pentad ('group of 5') or pentade may refer to: Pentad (chord), a five-note chord; Pentad (computing), or pentade, a 5-bit group; a division of the solar term; Dramatistic pentad, Kenneth Burke's method of analyzing motivation; Medical pentad, a group of five signs or symptoms which characterise a specific medical condition; a tuple of length 5
Pentad of TTP Remembered by the mnemonic "FAT RN" (or alternatively "ART FaN"); Fever, Anemia (microangiopathic hemolytic anemia), Thrombocytopenia, Renal failure, Neurologic disturbances Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
Reynolds' pentad is a collection of signs and symptoms consistent with obstructive ascending cholangitis, a serious infection of the biliary tract. It is a combination of Charcot's triad ( right upper quadrant pain, jaundice , and fever ) with shock ( low blood pressure , tachycardia ) and an altered mental status . [ 1 ]
Each pentad consists of five, rarely six, days, and are mostly named after phenological (biological or botanical) phenomena corresponding to the pentad. Solar terms originated in China, then spread to Korea, Vietnam, and Japan, countries in the East Asian cultural sphere.
A pentad is a five-note chord (Bailey 1991, 450). Under the latter definition, ...
Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), formerly known as Steno-Fallot tetralogy, [9] is a congenital heart defect characterized by four specific cardiac defects. [4] Classically, the four defects are: [4]
A pentad as follows was referred to Japanese traditional calendar presented in a smaller, easy to use, format. First pentad: Suzume hajimete sukuu (雀始巣), 'Sparrow begins holding a nest'. [3] Second pentad: Sakura hajimete hiraku (桜始開), 'Cherry blossoms open for the first time'. [3]
In Yushui each pentad includes : in China, first pentad / 獺祭魚 : 'otters make offerings of fish'. As fish begin to swim upstream, they are hunted by otters, which are believed to offer the fish to heaven ; second pentad / 鴻雁來 : 'the wild geese arrive'. Wild geese begin to make their northward migration, following the onset of spring ;