Signs and symptoms of an effusion vary depending on the underlying disease, but dyspnea, cough, and pleuritic chest pain are common. Chest examination of a patient with pleural effusion is notable for dullness to percussion, decreased or absent tactile fremitus, decreased breath sounds, and no voice transmission.
Medical Definition of velamentous insertion. : attachment of the umbilical cord to the chorion beyond the margin of the placenta.
Floaters within the vitreous from vitreous degeneration (syneresis floaters) that are dense and suspended directly in the optical axis by vitreous strands can nearly incapacitate patients (Figure 2). The surgical approach is to cut the superior suspending vitreous strands.