Signs and symptoms of an effusion vary depending on the underlying disease, but dyspnea, cough, and pleuritic chest pain are common. Chest examination of a patient with pleural effusion is notable for dullness to percussion, decreased or absent tactile fremitus, decreased breath sounds, and no voice transmission.
Medical Definition of velamentous insertion. : attachment of the umbilical cord to the chorion beyond the margin of the placenta.
Many primates have both a caecum and an appendix, or a structure intermediate between the two. The anatomical definition of a vermiform appendix is a narrowed, thickened, lymphoid-rich caecal apex (Fisher 2000 and references therein).