what are dehiscence in medical terms?
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Medical Definition of dehiscence. : the parting of the sutured lips of a surgical wound wound dehiscence resulting from infection.
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Disc desiccation is one of the most common features of degenerative disc disease. It refers to the dehydration of your discs. Your vertebral discs are full of fluid, which keeps them both flexible and sturdy. As you age, the discs begin to dehydrate or slowly lose their fluid.
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Phantosmia is the medical word used by doctors when a person smells something that is not actually there. Phantosmia is also called a phantom smell or an olfactory hallucination. The smells vary from person to person but are usually unpleasant, such as burnt toast, metallic, or chemical smells.
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Senility, by contrast, is an older term used to describe a decline in an older adult's physical and cognitive health. Like dementia, senility can cause changes in mental health, such as memory loss or a decline in judgment. But senility symptoms can also include physical changes such as: Stiff joints.
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In between each vertebra, you have a tough, spongy disc that acts as a shock absorber. Over time, these discs wear down as part of a process called degenerative disc disease. Disc desiccation is one of the most common features of degenerative disc disease. It refers to the dehydration of your discs.
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Dehydration is a (protracted)biochemical process similar to desiccation in closed chambers. Evaporation refers to evaporation as a transport phenomenon governed by engineering equations.
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A nervous or mental breakdown is a term used to describe a period of intense mental distress. During this period, you're unable to function in your everyday life. This term was once used to refer to a wide variety of mental illnesses, including: depression.
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Hypochondriasis or hypochondria is a condition in which a person is excessively and unduly worried about having a serious illness.
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to deprive of ability, qualification, or strength. to put into a state of sulky dissatisfaction. to make repayment or return for (service, benefits, etc.)
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“That means it's a feeling that can precede seizures that may go on to eclipse consciousness or even generalize into tonic-clonic seizures.” “Sometimes, however, the déjà vu isn't an aura—it is the seizure itself,” Dr. Garcia says. The phrase déjà vu means “already seen” in French.
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Déjà vu is associated with temporal lobe epilepsy. This experience is a neurological anomaly related to epileptic electrical discharge in the brain, creating a strong sensation that an event or experience currently being experienced has already been experienced in the past.
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Senile plaques (also known as neuritic plaques) are extracellular deposits of amyloid beta in the grey matter of the brain. Degenerative neural structures and an abundance of microglia and astrocytes can be associated with senile plaque deposits. These deposits can also be a byproduct of senescence (ageing).
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SYNONYMS. frail, feeble, puny, fragile, delicate, weakly. infirm, sick, sickly, shaky, debilitated, incapacitated, ailing, indisposed, decrepit, enervated, tired, fatigued, exhausted, spent, worn out.
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When a disc degenerates it is often referred to as degenerative disc disease. There term “disease” in this case does not mean that there is any life threatening or contagious condition. Rather, degenerative disc disease refers to a disc that is losing water content and is wearing out.
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Definition of infirmity. 1a : the quality or state of being infirm. b : the condition of being feeble : frailty. 2 : disease, malady.
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Dissociation is a general term that refers to a detachment from many things. Depersonalization is specifically a sense of detachment from oneself and one's identity. Derealization is when things or people around seem unreal.
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In human medicine, the term “senior” is really just a definition of a person who has reached a certain age in their lifespan (65 or older). ... However, “geriatric” is a term used more with their status of health-when a person is extremely fragile.