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Feeding difficulties

Feeding difficulties are problems with eating or drinking, ranging from picky eating to pediatric feeding disorder; in adults, the equivalent problem is usually dysphagia, a swallowing disorder.

Feeding Methods

Feeding Methods (MeSH D005248) covers ways of giving food to humans or animals: oral nutrition support, enteral tube feeding, and parenteral (intravenous) nutrition, with routes, tube access, delivery schedules, and history from ancient rectal enemas to modern formulas.

Feeding problems of newborn

Feeding problems of newborn (ICD-11 KD32) covers neonatal slow feeding, underfeeding, overfeeding, breast-feeding difficulty, and failure to thrive, arising from immature suck-swallow-breathe coordination, dysphagia, or prematurity.

Feeding tube

Feeding tube: medical device delivering enteral nutrition into the stomach or intestine (nasogastric, PEG, jejunostomy) for patients unable to eat; history from ancient Egyptian rectal enemas to Sédillot's 1845 gastrostomy and the 1980 PEG technique.

Feel4Diabetes trial

The Feel4Diabetes trial was an EU-funded, cluster-randomized trial that gave vulnerable families in six European countries school- and community-based counseling and text messages to prevent type 2 diabetes.

Feeling ill

Feeling ill (malaise), ICD-11 code MG25, is a non-specific sensation of being unwell. Acute sickness behavior is cytokine-driven (IL-1β, IL-6, TNFα) and adaptive; it differs from chronic ME/CFS.

Feeling of incomplete bladder emptying

Feeling of incomplete bladder emptying (残尿感), an ICS-defined lower urinary tract symptom and ICD-11 code MF50.64: a complaint the bladder does not feel empty after urination, often but not always linked to high postvoid residual urine.

Fees and Charges

Fees and Charges is a MeSH descriptor (D005249, introduced 1968) covering amounts charged to patients as payers for health care services, with child terms for capitation, fee-for-service, hospital, dental, medical, and pharmaceutical charges.

Fehling's solution

Fehling's solution, or Fehling's reagent, is an alkaline copper(II) test for reducing sugars and aliphatic aldehydes, devised by Hermann von Fehling in 1848 to quantify sugar in urine.

Fei Chen

Fei Chen is an associate professor at Harvard and Broad Institute core member working in single-cell and spatial genomics. He is best known for co-inventing Expansion microscopy and developing Slide-seq.

Feijoa sellowiana

Feijoa sellowiana, also called pineapple guava or Acca sellowiana, is a South American evergreen shrub grown for its sweet, pineapple-flavored green fruit, developed as a crop mainly in New Zealand.

Feiko O. ter Kuile

Feiko O. ter Kuile (born 1962) is a Dutch malaria epidemiologist and clinical tropical-medicine researcher, Professor of Tropical Epidemiology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine since 2003.

Feingold syndrome

Feingold syndrome (FGLDS, ODED syndrome) is a rare autosomal dominant congenital malformation disorder with microcephaly, digital anomalies, and learning deficit; type 1 from MYCN variants includes gastrointestinal atresia, type 2 from MIR17HG deletion does not.

Fejervarya

Fejervarya (Rice Frogs, 陆蛙属) is a genus of dicroglossid frogs from South and Southeast Asia to Japan, with about 15 species, a disputed paraphyletic classification, and many cryptic species.

Feladilimab

Feladilimab (GSK3359609) is GSK's humanized ICOS agonist IgG4 antibody for solid tumors; first-in-human in INDUCE-1, its INDUCE-3 head and neck trial failed and development was discontinued.

Felbamate

Felbamate (Felbatol), a second-generation antiepileptic drug approved by the FDA in 1993 for Lennox-Gastaut syndrome and partial seizures, acts on NMDA and GABA receptors but is restricted by boxed warnings for aplastic anemia and hepatic failure.

Felbinac

Felbinac (フェルビナク), 4-biphenylacetic acid, is a topical NSAID (ATC M02AA08) sold as gels, tapes, and paps, chiefly in Japan since 1986, with NNT 3.0 for acute musculoskeletal pain.

Felicia D. Goodrum

Felicia D. Goodrum is an American virologist known for defining the viral genes controlling human cytomegalovirus latency, including UL138, and received the 2008 Presidential Early Career Award.

Felícia Marie Knaul

Felicia Marie Knaul is a Canadian-Mexican health economist and UCLA distinguished professor who helped design Mexico's Seguro Popular and led the 2017 Lancet Commission on palliative care.

Felidae

Felidae is the cat family of order Carnivora: two subfamilies, Pantherinae and Felinae, with 14 genera, 41 species, and 77 subspecies per the 2017 IUCN Cat Classification Task Force revision, including the domestic cat Felis catus.

Feliformia

Feliformia is the cat-like suborder of Carnivora, sister to Caniformia, with about 123 species in six or seven families (cats, hyenas, mongooses, civets, linsangs, Malagasy carnivorans, Nandinia) and a crown age near 43-46 Ma.

Felimare picta

Felimare picta (Schultz in Philippi, 1836), the regal sea goddess, is a large chromodorid nudibranch of the tropical and subtropical Atlantic and Mediterranean; molecular studies synonymized its picta, webbi and azorica subspecies and split off Felimare tema.

Feline asthma

Feline asthma (allergic bronchitis, feline bronchial asthma) is a chronic allergic lower-airway disease affecting 1 to 5% of cats, causing eosinophilic airway inflammation, bronchoconstriction, coughing, and dyspnea, treated with corticosteroids and bronchodilators.

Feline foamy virus

Feline foamy virus (FFV), formerly feline syncytial virus, species Felispumavirus felcat, is an apathogenic spumaretrovirus of domestic cats with a DNA-genome particle, two env serogroups, and use as a vaccine and gene therapy vector.

Feline immunodeficiency virus

Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), feline T-lymphotropic lentivirus, a Retroviridae lentivirus of cats first isolated in 1986 in Petaluma, California; spread by bite wounds, species-specific, five clades A-E, and controlled studies show infected cats often have normal lifespans.

Feline infectious peritonitis

Feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), caused by mutated feline coronavirus (FIPV arising from benign FECV), is a fatal inflammatory disease of cats in wet and dry forms, now treatable with GS-441524.

Feline leukemia virus

Feline leukemia virus (FeLV) is a retrovirus that infects domestic cats worldwide and is the leading cause of virus-associated deaths in cats.

Feline stomatitis

Feline stomatitis, formally feline chronic gingivostomatitis (FCGS), is a chronic, painful immune-mediated inflammation of a cat's mouth with no known cause; full or partial tooth extraction improves about 70 to 80% of cats.

Feline viral rhinotracheitis

Feline viral rhinotracheitis (FVR), also called feline herpesvirus 1 or felid alphaherpesvirus 1 infection, is an acute upper respiratory and ocular disease of cats; it causes about half of feline viral URIs, becomes latent for life, and is not zoonotic.

Felipe Fregni

Felipe Fregni is a Brazilian-born physician-scientist at Harvard Medical School who studies non-invasive brain stimulation and clinical trial methodology, leads the Spaulding Neuromodulation Center in Boston, and received the PECASE award.