dromo-, drom-, -drome, -dromic, -dromical, -dromous

1. An abnormal panic of crossing streets: Fanny's grandmother was slow with walking and always took a cane with her when going into town, and she was affected by dromophobia when having to go across a road because she was slower than most people and was afraid that she might be hit by a car.
2. A morbid avoidance of walking, wandering, or roaming about: Dromophobia appears with people when they are afraid of hiking or going by foot because they fear the dangers associated with it, probably due to some accident-related experience they had before.

1. Affecting the conductivity of cardiac muscle; a reference to the influence of the chambered muscular organ nerves that pumps blood through the body.
2. Affecting the speed and conduction of nerve fibers: A positive dromotropic agent enhances the conduction of electrical impulses to the heart or the nerve fibers.

The regulation of the rate of conduction and duration of the refractory period of the heart by sympathetic and parasympathetic influences.

The quality or property of affecting the conductivity (control) of a nerve fiber.

• Negative dromotropism, the property of diminishing the conductivity of a nerve.
• Positive dromotropism, the property of increasing the conductivity of a nerve.

1. Running in different or opposite directions.
2. Turning in opposite directions on the main stem and on a branch, as the generating spiral of a phyllotaxis.

1. An open-air stadium in ancient Greece, or Rome, with an oval track that was used for horse or chariot racing.
2. An arena for equestrian events.

1. Moving, running, or acting in the same direction.
2. Moving in the same direction; such as, a lever or pulley in which the resistance and the actuating force are both on the same side of the fulcrum or axis.
3. Running in the same direction; for example, stems twining around a support, or of the spiral succession of leaves on stems and their branches.

A syndrome of unknown origin, mainly affecting young children, that causes fever, reddening of the eyes (conjunctivitis), lips and mucous membranes of the mouth, ulcerative gum disease (gingivitis), swollen glands in the neck (cervical lymphadenopathy), and a rash that is raised and bright red (maculoerythematous) in a "glove-and-sock" fashion over the skin of the hands and feet which becomes hard, swollen (edematous), and it peels off.

It is also called mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome, a name that is quite descriptive because the disease is characterized by the typical changes in the mucus membranes that line the lips and mouth and by the enlarged and tender lymph glands.

Kawasaki disease affects the blood vessels and is now the main cause of acquired heart disease in children. It is most common in people of Asian descent, and it is more common with males than with females.

The syndrome was first described in the late 1960's in Japan by the pediatrician Tomisaku Kawasaki.

Relating to a map in which the rhumb lines (steady courses along one compass setting taken by a ship or aircraft) appear straight, or to the rhumb lines on such a map.