Summary Mechanical ventilation, applied either invasively through a tracheotomy tube or noninvasively via a mask, is increasingly used for long-term management of many forms of severe chronic respiratory failure in the home setting.
complete proteins: protein that contain all essential amino acid in sufficient quality to maintain balance and growth. Please contribute to this project, if you have more information about this term feel free to edit this page. This page was last modified on 6 July 2006, at 15:22.This page has been accessed 5,068 times.
/proÂ·tein/ (proÂ´tÄn) any of a group of complex organic compounds containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur. Proteins, the principal constituents of the protoplasm of all cells, are of high molecular weight and consist of Î±-amino acids joined by peptide linkages.