Letter: m

Inflammation of the meninges.

[sing. meninx]. Membranes. Specifically, the three membranes (from outside inward, dura mater, arachnoid mater, and pia mater) surrounding the brain and spinal cord. SEE arachnoid mater, pia mater.

Liquid dosage form with solids suspended in liquids; usually required shaking.

Versatile phagocytic white blood cells, orchestrating much of the immunological activity. Digestion of infectious agents is neat and self-contained. There are slight differences depending where the cell resides: Lung = alveolar macrophages; Liver = kupfer cells; Tissues = histiocytes; Blood = monocytes. SEE also leukocyte.

A flat skin lesion perceptively different in color from the surrounding tissue.

A type of spongiform encephalopathy caused by a prion (infectious protein) that infects cows; so called because the animals were observed to become highly irritable and apprehensive before losing their ability to stand. The human form is new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (nvCJD) (pronounced Krewtz – f?ldt – Y? k?bs). nvCJD can be transferred to other patients from cornea or dura matter transplants, spinal fluid, several ports of the lymphatic system, instruments, an electrode, used on brain or eyes, etc. of CJD patients and other methods with less frequency. CJD is NOT destroyed by normal sterilization.

A very fine, white, odorless powder added to modified cornstarch to prevent caking in the production of USP absorbable dusting powder.

A noninvasive diagnostic technique that produces computerized images of internal body tissues and is based on nuclear magnetic resonance of atoms within the body induced by the application of radio waves — abbreviation MRI.

Large cartilaginous airways that bifurcate from the trachea at the carina (positioned a bit more to the left) to supply each lung. The right mainstem bronchus is usually shorter, more vertical, and larger in diameter than the left mainstem bronchus. SYN: primary bronchi.

Impaired intestinal absorption of nutrients.