Common Computer Terms and Definitions. 11/09/10. Boot: The act of starting up a computer. Byte: One character (eight bits of data). Cursor: The blinking vertical or horizontal line. that indicates where text is being typed. CD-ROM: Compact Disc Read-Only Memory. CD-R/CD-RW: CD-Recordable/CD-Re-Writeable.
Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is called the âsilent killerâ because very, very few people know when their blood pressure goes up. When I tell somebody that they have high blood pressure for the first time they say, âI donât understand. Iâve had low blood pressure my whole life.â Well, you do until you donât.
Much of the current knowledge of lacunar strokes comes from C. Miller Fisher 's cadaver dissections of post-mortem stroke patients. He observed  lacunae  (Latin for empty space) in the deep brain structures after occlusion of 200-800 Î¼m penetrating arteries and connected them with 5 classic syndromes. silent lacunar infarction (SLI) is one type of silent stroke which usually shows no identifiable outward symptoms thus the term silent. Individuals who suffer a SLI are often completely unaware they have suffered a stroke.