See Also: mesenteriplication(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
icterus(medicine)
icterus(dictionary)
icterus praecox(medicine)
icterus melas(medicine)
icterus gravis(medicine)
icterus index(medicine)
icterus neonatorum(medicine)
cythemolytic icterus(medicine)

icterus index (medicine) and mesenteriplication (medicine)


icterus index (medicine)


icterus index


The value that indicates the relative level of bilirubin in serum or plasma; calculated by comparing (in a colourimeter) the intensity of the colour of the specimen with that of a standard solution (potassium dichromate, 0.05 g, in 500 ml of water, plus 0.2 ml of sulfuric acid); the normal range is 3 to 5, and values greater than 15 are usually associated with clinically apparent jaundice; an index less than 3 is observed in various examples of secondary anaemia, aplastic anaemia, and chlorosis. Sometimes erroneously called icteric index: it is an index of jaundice, not a jaundiced index.


mesenteriplication (medicine)


mesenteriplication
Reducing redundancy of a mesentery by making one or more tucks in it.

Origin: mesentery + L. Plico, pp. -atus, to fold