The state of equilibrium of the bodily, physiological and function components; normal state.
Letter: h
Heat and Moisture Exchanging Filter
Heat-Moisture Exchanger (artificial nose)
Hyaline Membrane Disease
Above, higher than normal.
Increased pain from a stimulus that normally provokes pain.
The administration of nutrients by intravenous feeding, especially to individuals unable to take in food through the alimentary tract.
1) Characterized by greater than normal pressure or density. Applies to a solution more dense than the diluent solution or medium it is being introduced to. In anesthesia, a hyperbaric solution has a density greater than that of spinal fluid. 2) Refers to increased air or gas pressure such as hyperbaric chambers used to treat burn victims, decompression sickness (the bends).
A metabolic state where the patient is breaking down more protein and excreting more nitrogen than he or she is retaining leading to weigh loss and wasting.
Abnormal tendency to excessive clotting (thrombosis).