The average airway pressure during one complete ventilatory cycle.
Letter: m
A passage or opening. The nasal meatuses are found on the side walls of the nasal cavity between the nasal conchae.
The mean or average; being or occurring in the middle; extending toward the middle; especially lying or extending toward the median axis of the body; relating to the middle or center; nearer to the median or midsagittal plane.
A medial part (as a vein or nerve); a value in an ordered set of values below and above which there is an equal number of values or which is the arithmetic mean of the two middle values if there is no one middle number; a vertical line that divides the histogram of a frequency distribution into two parts of equal area; a value of a random variable for which all greater values make the cumulative distribution function greater than one half and all lesser values make it less than one half; a line from a vertex of a triangle to the midpoint of the opposite side.
Swelling and inflammation of the area between the lungs (mediastinum); in this case an infection. Area contains the heart, large blood vessels, trachea, esophagus, thymus gland, lymph nodes, and connective tissues.
A general term used to designate substances that incite such reactions as inflammation, smooth muscle contraction and white cell activation.
The space between the two lungs that contains the lower portion of the trachea and the primary bronchi.
Also referred to as a micrometer, a micron is a metric unit of length = 0.000001 meter = one millionth of a meter (1 X 10-6) = 0.000039th (39 millionth) of an inch = 1000nm (nanometers). May be represented by the symbol ? or m? (me?).
Methicillin is an antibiotic that is commonly used to treat Staphylococcus aureus, a common type of bacteria that is often found in the nose, but can also grow in wounds and other sites of the body. Over time, the many strains of S. aureus have become resistant to methicillin. The drug is no longer effective. The primary way individuals get MRSA is by contact (direct or indirect) with a person who either has a wound infection, an infection of the respiratory tract, or who is colonized with the bacteria especially in the hospital (HA MRSA). MRSA are frequent causes of healthcare-associated bloodstream and catheter-related infections. MRSA now composes over 50% of S. aureus infections in U.S. hospitals and varying percentages in different countries. It has also an emerging cause of community-associated (CA MRSA), especially skin and soft tissue infections and necrotizing pneumonia.
The number of carbon dioxide molecules produced by the tissues relative to the oxygen molecules consumed by the tissues.