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.
Look up filament, filamentous, or filaments in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The word filament, which is descended from Latin filum meaning thread, is used in English for a variety of thread-like structures, including: