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primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (medicine)

primary amoebic meningoencephalitis

An invasive, rapidly fatal cerebral infection by soil amoebae, chiefly Naegleria fowleri, found in man and Other primates and experimentally in rodents; the disease is characterised by a high fever, neck rigidity, and symptoms associated with upper respiratory infection such as cough and nausea; although organisms have been cultured from various organs, the brain is the primary focus, especially the olfactory lobes and cerebral cortex, which are first attacked by the amoebae that enter from nasal mucosa through the cribriform plate; death usually occurs two to three days after onset of symptoms.

suck (medicine)

suck

1. To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressure; to draw, or apply force to, by exhausting the air.

2. To draw liquid from by the action of the mouth; as, to suck an orange; specifically, to draw milk from (the mother, the breast, etc) with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother, or dam; an infant sucks the breast.

3. To draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; the roots of plants suck water from the ground.

4. To draw or drain. "Old ocean, sucked through the porous globe." (Thomson)

5. To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up. "As waters are by whirlpools sucked and drawn." (Dryden) To suck in, to draw into the mouth; to imbibe; to absorb. To suck out, to draw out with the mouth; to empty by suction. To suck up, to draw into the mouth; to draw up by suction absorption.

Origin: OE. Suken, souken, AS. Scan, sgan; akin to D. Zuigen, G. Saugen, OHG. Sgan, Icel. Sga, sjga, Sw. Suga, Dan. Suge, L. Sugere. Cf. Honeysuckle, Soak, Succulent, Suction.

Source: Websters Dictionary

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