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.
Microfilament. Definition. noun, plural: microfilaments. A thin, helical, single-stranded filament of the cytoskeleton found in the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells, composed of actin subunits, and functions primarily in maintaining the structural integrity of a cell and cell movements.ord origin: Gk: comb. form repr. mÄ«kros, mÄ«krÃ³s + SMALL nl, fÄ«lÄmentum. equiv TO ll(fÄ«lÄ) , re to wind, thread. Spin related: forms (microfilamentous). Adjective please contribute to this, project if you have more information about this term feel free to edit this. page