See Also: P-pulmonale(medicine)
cor pulmonale(medicine)
Cor pulmonale(health)
cor pulmonale(dictionary)
atrium pulmonale(medicine)
glomus pulmonale(medicine)
ligamentum pulmonale(medicine)

lurve (iou) and P-pulmonale (medicine)


lurve (iou)



lurve noun. colloq. Also lerve. M20.
[Alt. of LOVE noun, repr. pronunc. of love in popular romantic songs.]
Love; romantic infatuation; sexual attraction.
attrib.: V. Walters Girl's got the lurve fever.

P-pulmonale (medicine)


P-pulmonale
Tall, narrow, peaked P waves in electrocardiographic leads II, III, and aVF, and often a prominent initial positive P wave component in V1, presumed to be characteristic of cor pulmonale. (Although this term is extensively used in the electrocardiographic literature, it is actually a misnomer and would be more appropriately called P-dextrocardiale, since it results from overload of the right atrium regardless of the cause, as in tricuspid stenosis, and may occur independently of cor pulmonale.) In lung disease, P-pulmonale is usually transient, occurring during exacerbations.