vegetative endocarditis

vegetative endocarditis
verrucous endocarditis endocarditis whose characteristic lesions are vegetations or verrucae on the endocardium; it may be either infective or some other type.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • endocarditis — Inflammation of the endocardium. SYN: encarditis. abacterial thrombotic e. SYN: nonbacterial thrombotic e.. acute bacterial e. a type of severe bacterial e. caused by pyogenic organisms such as hemolytic …   Medical dictionary

  • Vegetation (pathology) — In medicine, a vegetation is an abnormal growth [DorlandsDict|eight/000114639|Vegetation] named for its similarity to natural vegetation.Vegetations are often associated with endocarditis.cite journal |author=Miyata E, Satoh S, Inokuchi K, et al… …   Wikipedia

  • swine erysipelas — n a destructive contagious disease of various mammals and birds that is caused by a bacterium of the genus Erysipelothrix (E. rhusiopathiae), that may occur in an acute highly fatal septicemic form or take a chronic course marked by endocarditis …   Medical dictionary

  • Northern Bald Ibis — Adult Conservation status …   Wikipedia

  • erysipelas — erysipelatous /er euh si pel euh teuhs, ear /, adj. /er euh sip euh leuhs, ear euh /, n. 1. Pathol. an acute, febrile infectious disease, caused by a specific streptococcus, characterized by diffusely spreading deep red inflammation of the skin… …   Universalium

  • bacteria — bacterial, adj. bacterially, adv. /bak tear ee euh/, n.pl., sing. bacterium / tear ee euhm/. ubiquitous one celled organisms, spherical, spiral, or rod shaped and appearing singly or in chains, comprising the Schizomycota, a phylum of the kingdom …   Universalium

  • Chlorpromazine and the Phenothiazine Antipsychotics —    (from 1952).    Prehistory: In 1883, August Bernthsen (1855–1931), a postdoctoral student in chemistry at Heidelberg, synthesized a hydrocarbon molecule with two benzol rings connected to each other by a sulfur and a nitrogen atom. Writing in… …   Historical dictionary of Psychiatry

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”