Medical Encyclopedia Topics beginning with “F”

• Face pain
• Face powder poisoning
• Facelift
• Facial nerve palsy
• Facial nerve palsy due to birth trauma

• Facial paralysis
• Facial swelling
• Facial tics
• Facial trauma
• Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy

• Factitious hyperthyroidism
• Factor II assay
• Factor II deficiency
• Factor IX assay
• Factor V assay

• Factor V deficiency
• Factor VII assay
• Factor VII deficiency
• Factor VIII assay
• Factor X assay

• Factor X deficiency
• Factor XII (Hageman factor) deficiency
• Factor XII assay
• Failure to thrive
• Fainting

• Familial combined hyperlipidemia
• Familial dysbetalipoproteinemia
• Familial hypercholesterolemia
• Familial hypertriglyceridemia
• Familial lipoprotein lipase deficiency

• Familial Mediterranean fever
• Family troubles – resources
• Fanconi’s anemia
• Fanconi syndrome
• Farsightedness

• Fast food tips
• Fast foods
• Fat
• Fat free diet and children
• Fatigue

• Febrile/cold agglutinins
• Febrile seizures
• Febrile seizures – what to ask your doctor
• Fecal culture
• Fecal fat

• Fecal impaction
• Fecal smear
• Feeding disorder of infancy and early childhood
• Feeding tube – infants
• Feeding tube insertion – gastrostomy

• Felty syndrome
• Female condoms
• Female pattern baldness
• Female sexual dysfunction
• Femoral hernia

• Femoral hernia repair
• Femoral nerve dysfunction
• Femur fracture repair – discharge
• Fenestration
• Fenoprofen calcium overdose

• Ferritin
• Fertilizers and household plant foods
• Fetal alcohol syndrome
• Fetal development
• Fetal echocardiography

• Fetal heart monitoring
• Fetal-maternal erythrocyte distribution
• Fetal scalp pH testing
• Fever
• Fever blister causes

• Fever blisters and canker sores
• Fiber
• Fibrin degradation products
• Fibrinogen
• Fibrinopeptide A

• Fibroadenoma – breast
• Fibrocystic breast disease
• Fibromyalgia
• Fibrous dysplasia
• Fifth disease

• Fine motor control
• Fine needle aspiration of the thyroid
• Finger pain
• Fingers that change color
• Fire ants

• First aid kit
• Fishhook removal
• Fistula
• Flank pain
• Flat bones

• Fleas
• Flu
• Flu and holidays
• Fluid imbalance
• Fluorescein angiography

• Fluorescein eye stain
• Fluoride in diet
• Fluoride overdose
• Flushable reagent stool blood test
• Fluxes

• Focal neurological deficits
• Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
• Folate deficiency
• Folate-deficiency anemia
• Folic acid – test

• Folic acid and birth defect prevention
• Folic acid in diet
• Folliculitis
• Fontanelles – bulging
• Fontanelles – excessively large

• Fontanelles – sunken
• Food additives
• Food allergy
• Food guide pyramid
• Food jags

• Food labeling
• Food poisoning
• Food poisoning prevention
• Food safety
• Foods – fresh vs. frozen or canned

• Foot, leg, and ankle swelling
• Foot amputation – discharge
• Foot pain
• Foot pain causes
• Foraminotomy

• Forehead lift
• Foreign body in the nose
• Foreign object – inhaled or swallowed
• Foxglove poisoning
• Fractional excretion of sodium

• Fractured clavicle in the newborn
• Fragile X syndrome
• Frequent or urgent urination
• Friedreich’s ataxia
• Frontal bossing

• Frostbite
• Frozen shoulder
• FSH
• FTA-ABS test
• Fuchs’ dystrophy

• Fuel oil
• Fungal arthritis
• Fungal nail infection
• Funnel-web spider bite
• Furniture polish poisoning

• Furuncle
• Fusion of the ear bones