Letter: p

Suffix meaning below normal. (e.g. neutropenia – low neutrophil count.)

As a surface disinfectant is effective against vegetative bacteria, fungi, enveloped and non-enveloped viruses, Mycobacterium tuberculosis and bacterial spores. They are only mildly affected by organic substances. The destructive activity is very rapid.

Arterial Oxygen tension

Peak Airway Pressure

Small elevated protuberances on the tongue.

Small circumscribed, solid, elevated bumps on the skin.

Skin preparation that disrupts cell walls and inactivates cell enzymes. Action is fairly rapid, residual lasts a few hours. However, it is less effective than CHG or iodophors in reducing microbial flora. It is minimally inhibited by organic matter, active against gram-negative microorganisms, viruses, and tuberculi bacilli – Not spores.

Any of the anterior accessory nasal sinuses (frontal, ethmoidal, sphenoidal, and maxillary) that open into the nasal cavities. All are lined with a ciliated mucous membrane continuous with that of the nasal cavities. Blocking their drainage can result in sinus infections (e.g. nasogastric tubes).

Functionally opposes the sympathetic division of the ANS; returns organ function to baseline levels during rest and relaxation conditions (e.g., decreased gastrointestinal activity).

The part of the autonomic nervous system that contains chiefly cholinergic fibers. tends to: induce secretion, increase the tone and contractility of smooth muscle, slow the heart rate, consists of: a cranial part made up of preganglionic fibers leaving and passing the midbrain by the oculomotor nerves and the hindbrain by the facial, glossopharyngeal, vagus, and accessory nerves and passing to the ciliary, sphenopalatine, submandibular, and otic ganglia of the head or to ganglionated plexuses of the thorax and abdomen and postganglionic fibers passing from these ganglia to end organs of the head and upper trunk. – A sacral part made up of preganglionic fibers emerging and passing in the sacral nerves and passing to ganglionated plexuses of the lower trunk and postganglionic fibers passing from these plexuses chiefly to the viscera of the lower abdomen and the external genital organs. – Called also: parasympathetic system, autonomic division of nervous system, parasympathetic part of autonomic division of peripheral nervous system.