window
(win′dō″)
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1. An aperture for the admission of light or air or both.
2. A small aperture into a cavity, esp. that of the inner ear.
SYN: SEE: fenestra
3. A period after acute infection when neither the cause of the infection nor antibodies against it can be detected in blood or body fluids.
4. In echocardiography, an imaging view of a body structure.
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Citation
Venes, Donald, editor. "Window." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 24th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2021. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/755784/all/window.
Window. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/755784/all/window. Accessed December 10, 2024.
Window. (2021). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (24th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/755784/all/window
Window [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. [cited 2024 December 10]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/755784/all/window.
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