Confusing and sometimes meaningless terms used in cardiovascular medicine

Meaningless Terms in Rewriting

We present an axiomatic approach to the concept of meaninglessness in finite and transfinite term rewriting and lambda calculus. We justify our axioms in several ways. They can be intuitively justified from the viewpoint of rewriting as computation. They are shown to imply important properties of meaninglessness: genericity of the class of meaningless terms, confluence modulo equality of meanin...

Meaningless terms in

We present an axiomatic approach to meaninglessness in nite and transsnite term rewriting and lambda calculus. We justify our axioms in two ways. First, they are shown to imply important properties of mean-inglessness: genericity of the class of meaningless terms, the consistency of equating all meaningless terms, and the construction of BB ohm trees. Second we show that they can be easily veri...

Blue dyes in medicine--a confusing terminology.

Diurnal variations in biomarkers used in cardiovascular medicine: clinical significance.

ventricular MI suppresses this ST segment elevation in the precordial leads and yields an ST segment elevation in leads II, III, and aVF.2-4 Massive STsegment elevation in precordial and inferior leads in RVMI has also been observed but is extremely rare.5 Thus, ST elevation in precordial leads should not exclude an infarction of the right ventricle that demands a treatment different from that ...

Confusing medical terms: disease that may or may not exist.

Patients often quote diseases or illnesses that either do not exist per se or are hard to prove that they exist. Often symptoms are vague and, therefore, difficult for patients to qualify in a language clinicians can understand, interpret and act upon. Physicians often perpetuate this by giving 'diagnoses of exclusion', or using poor explanations, oversimplifications, conflicting diagnostic cri...