AGR 331 F Vocabulary

Fasciculation

a localized, uncontrollable twitching of a single muscle group enervated by a single motor neuron

Fibrillation

rapid chaotic beating of the heart muscle in which the affected heart may stop pumping blood

Fistula

an abnormal passage from an internal body organ to the outside of the body

Fistulated

having an abnormal passage between an internal organ and the surface of the body or between two internal organs

Flaccid

weakness or paralysis and reduced muscle tone without obvious cause

Flaccid paralysis

an abnormal condition of weakness or loss of muscle tone

Flatulence

expulsion through the rectum of a mixture of gases that are the byproducts of the digestive process of animals

Fomite

nonliving materials that may transit microorganisms