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101 | 2018-03-11 21:06:25 | a | 1. Symbol for specific absorption coefficient; abbreviation for absorptivity; activity. | Symbol | |
102 | 2018-03-11 21:06:29 | A | 1. Symbol for absorbance; affinity; Helmholtz energy. | Term | |
103 | 2018-03-11 21:06:32 | A | 1. Abbreviation for ampere; adenine; alanine; alanyl.2. As a subscript, refers to alveolar gas.3. Symbol (usually capitalized italic, A) for absorbance.4. Symbol for adenosine or adenylic acid in polynucleotides; alanine or alanyl in polypeptides.5. First substrate in a multisubstrate enzyme-catalyzed reaction. | Abbreviation | |
104 | 2018-03-11 21:06:34 | a | 1. Abbreviation for total acidity; ante; area; asymmetric; auris; artery; arteria [TA].2. Symbol for atto-.3. As a subscript, refers to systemic arterial blood. | Abbreviation | |
105 | 2018-03-11 21:06:37 | Ǻ | 1. Symbol for angstrom. | Symbol | |
106 | 2018-03-11 21:06:38 | A bands | 1. the dark-staining anisotropic cross striations in the myofibrils of muscle fibers, comprising regions of overlapping thick (myosin) and thin (actin) filaments. | Term | A discs , anisotropic discs , Q discs |
107 | 2018-03-11 21:06:42 | A bile | 1. bile from the common duct. | Term | |
108 | 2018-03-11 21:06:46 | A cells | 1. alpha cells of pancreas or of anterior lobe of hypophysis. | Term | |
109 | 2018-03-11 21:06:49 | A chain | 1. the shorter polypeptide component of insulin containing 21 amino acyl residues, beginning with a glycyl residue (NH2-terminus); insulin consists of an A chain linked to a B chain by two disulfide bonds; the amino-acid composition of the A chain is a function of species;2. in general, one of the polypeptides in a multiprotein complex. | Term | |
110 | 2018-03-11 21:06:53 | A discs | Term | A bands | |
111 | 2018-03-11 21:06:58 | A fibers | 1. myelinated nerve fibers in somatic nerves, measuring 1–22 mcm in diameter, conducting nerve impulses at a rate of 6–120 meters per second. | Term | |
112 | 2018-03-11 21:06:59 | A wave | 1. the initial negative deflection in the electroretinogram, presumably reflecting retinal photoreceptor activity;2. an atrial deflection in an electrogram recorded from within the atrium of the heart;3. the first positive deflection of the atrial and venous pulses due to atrial systole. | Term | |
113 | 2018-03-11 21:07:06 | a- | 1. Not, without, -less; equivalent to L. in- and E. un-. | Term | |
114 | 2018-03-11 21:07:13 | a-c interval | 1. the interval between the onset of the a wave and that of the c wave of the jugular pulse. | Term | |
115 | 2018-03-11 21:07:19 | A-DNA | 1. a form of DNA in which the helix is right handed and the overall appearance is short and broad. | Term | |
116 | 2018-03-11 21:07:25 | A-E amputation | 1. acronym for above-the-elbow amputation. | Term | |
117 | 2018-03-11 21:07:32 | A-K amputation | 1. acronym for above-the-knee amputation. | Term | |
118 | 2018-03-11 21:07:38 | A-mode | 1. In diagnostic ultrasound, a one-dimensional presentation of a reflected sound wave in which echo amplitude (A) is displayed along the vertical axis and echo delay (depth) along the horizontal axis; the echo information derives from tissue interfaces along a single line in the direction of the sound beam. | Term | |
119 | 2018-03-11 21:07:45 | A-P-C | 1. Abbreviation for adenoidal-pharyngeal-conjunctival; antigen-presenting cells, under cell. | Abbreviation | |
120 | 2018-03-11 21:07:46 | A-P-C virus | Term | adenovirus | |
121 | 2018-03-11 21:07:48 | A-pattern esotropia | 1. convergent strabismus greater in upward than in downward gaze. | Term | |
122 | 2018-03-11 21:07:50 | A-pattern exotropia | 1. divergent strabismus greater in downward than in upward gaze. | Term | |
123 | 2018-03-11 21:07:55 | A-pattern strabismus | Term | A-strabismus | |
124 | 2018-03-11 21:07:58 | A-strabismus | 1. strabismus in which esotropia is more marked in looking upward than downward;2. strabismus in which exotropia is more marked on looking downward than upward. | Term | A-pattern strabismus |
125 | 2018-03-11 21:07:59 | A-V shunt | 1. arteriovenous shunt. | Abbreviation | |
126 | 2018-03-11 21:08:03 | A-V strabismus syndrome | 1. strabismus in which the angle of deviation is more marked on looking upward or downward. | Term | |
127 | 2018-03-11 21:08:04 | A-V valves | 1. abbreviation for the cardiac atrioventricular valves; the mitral and tricuspid valves. | Term | |
128 | 2018-03-11 21:08:08 | A:G ratio | 1. abbreviation for albumin:globulin ratio. | Term | |
129 | 2018-03-11 21:08:09 | A.B.C. process | 1. purification of water or deodorization of sewage by a mixture of alum, blood, and charcoal. | Term | |
130 | 2018-03-11 21:08:15 | a.c. | 1. Abbreviation for L. ante cibum, before a meal or ante cibos, before meals. | Abbreviation | |
131 | 2018-03-11 21:08:24 | A.D. | 1. Abbreviation for auris dextra [L.], right ear. | Abbreviation | |
132 | 2018-03-11 21:08:27 | A.S. | 1. Abbreviation for auris sinistra [L.], left ear. | Abbreviation | |
133 | 2018-03-11 21:08:30 | A.U. | 1. Abbreviation for auris utraque [L.], each ear or both ears. | Abbreviation | |
134 | 2018-03-11 21:08:33 | A/T cloning | 1. cloning of fragments in which the only overhanging (or uncomplemented) ends are the A or T bases; occurs often in use of specific enzymes to cut or make DNA fragments. | Term | |
135 | 2018-03-11 21:08:48 | A2 thalassemia | 1. β thalassemia, heterozygous state. | Term | |
136 | 2018-03-11 21:08:52 | A− | 1. Symbol for anion. | Symbol | |
137 | 2018-03-11 21:09:01 | A1 segment of anterior cerebral artery | Term | precommunicating part of anterior cerebral artery | |
138 | 2018-03-11 21:09:06 | A2 segment of anterior cerebral artery | Term | postcommunicating part of anterior cerebral artery | |
139 | 2018-03-11 21:09:09 | AA | 1. Abbreviation for amino acid; aminoacyl. | Abbreviation | |
140 | 2018-03-11 21:09:13 | aa | 1. Abbreviation for arteries [TA], arteriae [TA]. | Abbreviation | |
141 | 2018-03-11 21:09:17 | āā | 1. Abbreviation for G. ana, of each; used in writing prescriptions, following the names of two or more ingredients. | Abbreviation | |
142 | 2018-03-11 21:09:18 | AA amyloidosis | Term | secondary amyloidosis | |
143 | 2018-03-11 21:09:28 | AAA | 1. Older abbreviation for abdominal aortic aneurysm; commonly, procedure for surgical correction of an AAA. | Abbreviation | |
144 | 2018-03-11 21:09:30 | aaa disease | 1. endemic anemia of ancient Egypt, ascribed in the Papyrus Ebers to intestinal infestation with ancylostoma; now called ancylostomiasis. | Term | |
145 | 2018-03-11 21:09:44 | Aad | 1. Abbreviation for α-aminoadipic acid. | Abbreviation | |
146 | 2018-03-11 21:09:50 | Aagenaes | 1. O., Norwegian physician. | Term | |
147 | 2018-03-11 21:09:51 | Aagenaes syndrome | 1. an idiopathic form of familial intrahepatic cholestasis associated with lymphedema of the lower extremities. | Term | |
148 | 2018-03-11 21:09:59 | AAMC | 1. Abbreviation for Association of American Medical Colleges. | Abbreviation | |
149 | 2018-03-11 21:10:02 | AAR | 1. Abbreviation for antigen-antibody reaction. | Abbreviation | |
150 | 2018-03-11 21:10:06 | Aaron | 1. Charles D., U.S. physician, 1866–1951. | Term | |
151 | 2018-03-11 21:10:14 | Aaron sign | 1. in acute appendicitis, a referred pain or feeling of distress in the epigastrium or precordial region on continuous firm pressure over the McBurney point. | Term | |
152 | 2018-03-11 21:10:18 | Aarskog | 1. Dagfinn J., 20th-century Norwegian pediatrician. | Term | |
153 | 2018-03-11 21:10:21 | Aarskog-Scott syndrome | Term | faciodigitogenital dysplasia | |
154 | 2018-03-11 21:10:23 | AASH | 1. Abbreviation for adrenal androgen-stimulating hormone. | Abbreviation | |
155 | 2018-03-11 21:10:26 | AAV | 1. Abbreviation for adeno-associated virus. | Abbreviation | |
156 | 2018-03-11 21:10:28 | AB | 1. Abbreviation for abortion. | Abbreviation | |
157 | 2018-03-11 21:10:30 | Ab | 1. Abbreviation for antibody. | Abbreviation | |
158 | 2018-03-11 21:10:35 | ab initio | 1. From the beginning. | Term | |
159 | 2018-03-11 21:10:37 | ab- | 1. From, away from, off.2. Prefix applied to electrical units in the CGS-electromagnetic system to distinguish them from units in the CGS-electrostatic system (prefix stat-) and those in the metric system or SI (no prefix). | Term | |
160 | 2018-03-11 21:10:41 | abacterial thrombotic endocarditis | Term | nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis | |
161 | 2018-03-11 21:10:47 | Abadie | 1. Joseph Louis Irénée Jean, French neurosurgeon, 1873–1946. | Term | |
162 | 2018-03-11 21:10:49 | Abadie sign of tabes dorsalis | 1. insensibility to pressure over the tendo achillis. | Term | |
163 | 2018-03-11 21:10:50 | abampere | 1. Electromagnetic unit of current equal to 10 absolute amperes; a current that exerts a force of 2π dynes on a unit magnetic pole at the center of a circle of wire 1 cm in radius. | Term | |
164 | 2018-03-11 21:10:52 | abapical | 1. Opposite the apex. | Term | |
165 | 2018-03-11 21:10:53 | abapical pole | 1. in an oocyte, the pole opposite the animal pole (vegetal pole). | Term | |
166 | 2018-03-11 21:10:56 | abarognosis | 1. Loss of ability to appreciate the weight of objects held in the hand, or to differentiate among objects of different weights. When the primary senses are intact, caused by a lesion of the contralateral parietal lobe. | Term | |
167 | 2018-03-11 21:11:05 | abasia | 1. Inability to walk. | Term | |
168 | 2018-03-11 21:11:08 | abasia-astasia | Term | ||
169 | 2018-03-11 21:11:11 | abasic | 1. Affected by, or associated with, abasia.2. Refers to loss of pyrimidine sites in DNA. | Term | abatic |
170 | 2018-03-11 21:11:15 | abatement | 1. A diminution or easing.2. Reduction, ultimately elimination, of public-health nuisances such as smoke or loud noise. | Term | |
171 | 2018-03-11 21:11:15 | abatic | Term | abasic | |
172 | 2018-03-11 21:11:19 | abaxial | 1. Lying outside the axis of any body or part.2. Situated at the opposite extremity of the axis of a part. | Term | |
173 | 2018-03-11 21:11:20 | Abbe | 1. Robert W., U.S. surgeon, 1851–1928. | Term | |
174 | 2018-03-11 21:11:22 | Abbé | 1. Ernst K., German physicist, 1840–1905. | Term | |
175 | 2018-03-11 21:11:24 | Abbé condenser | 1. a system of two or three wide-angle, achromatic, convex, and planoconvex lenses that may be moved upward or downward beneath the stage of a microscope, thereby regulating the concentration of light (directly from a bulb or reflected from a mirror) that passes through the material to be examined on the stage. | Term | |
176 | 2018-03-11 21:11:24 | Abbe flap | 1. triangular wedge of the lower lip (usually midline) transferred into the upper lip and vascularized by the labial artery. | Term | |
177 | 2018-03-11 21:11:26 | Abbott | 1. Alexander C., U.S. bacteriologist, 1860–1935. | Term | |
178 | 2018-03-11 21:11:27 | Abbott | 1. W. Osler, U.S. physician, 1902–1943. | Term | |
179 | 2018-03-11 21:11:27 | Abbott artery | 1. an anomalous artery arising from the posteromedial proximal descending aorta, important during coarctation repair. | Term | |
180 | 2018-03-11 21:11:32 | Abbott stain for spores | 1. spores are stained blue with alkaline methylene blue; bodies of the bacilli become pink with eosin counterstain. | Term | |
181 | 2018-03-11 21:11:36 | Abbott tube | Term | Miller-Abbott tube | |
182 | 2018-03-11 21:11:39 | ABC leads | 1. the leads for recording one kind of vectorcardiogram utilizing the Arrighi triangle; supplanted by XYZ leads. | Term | |
183 | 2018-03-11 21:11:47 | ABC transporter proteins | 1. a superfamily of carrier proteins that bind two highly conserved ATP-binding cassettes and function in transporting peptides, sugars, polysaccharides, and ions across the cell membrane. Mutations in the gene that codes for one of these ABC transporter proteins is believed to be responsible for cystic fibrosis. | Term | |
184 | 2018-03-11 21:11:52 | abcoulomb | 1. A unit of electrical charge equal to 10 coulombs. The charge that passes over a given surface in 1 second if a current of 1 abampere is flowing across the surface. | Term | |
185 | 2018-03-11 21:11:54 | abdomen | 1. The part of the trunk that lies between the thorax and the pelvis. The abdomen does not include the vertebral region posteriorly but is considered by some anatomists to include the pelvis (abdominopelvic cavity). It includes the greater part of the abdominal cavity (cavitas abdominis [TA]) and is divided by arbitrary planes into nine regions. | Term | |
186 | 2018-03-11 21:11:59 | abdomen obstipum | 1. obsolete rarely used term for deformity of the abdomen due to congenitally short rectus muscles. | Term | |
187 | 2018-03-11 21:12:06 | abdominal | 1. Relating to the abdomen. | Term | |
188 | 2018-03-11 21:12:08 | abdominal angina | 1. intermittent abdominal pain, frequently occurring at a fixed time after eating, caused by inadequacy of the mesenteric circulation resulting from arteriosclerosis or other arterial disease. | Term | intestinal angina |
189 | 2018-03-11 21:12:11 | abdominal aorta | 1. the part of the descending aorta that is distal (inferior) to the aortic hiatus of the diaphragm, which occurs at the T-12 vertebral level. | Term | pars abdominalis aortae , aorta abdominalis , abdominal part of descending aorta |
190 | 2018-03-11 21:12:15 | abdominal aortic (nerve) plexus | 1. an autonomic plexus surrounding the abdominal aorta, directly continuous with the thoracic aortic plexus superiorly and continuing inferiorly to the bifurcation of the aorta as the superior hypogastric plexus. | Term | plexus nervosus aorticus abdominalis |
191 | 2018-03-11 21:12:17 | abdominal apoplexy | 1. mesenteric hemorrhage, thrombosis, or embolus involving the mesenteric or abdominal blood vessels. | Term | |
192 | 2018-03-11 21:12:20 | abdominal aura | 1. epileptic aura characterized by abdominal discomfort, including nausea, malaise, pain, and hunger; some phenomena reflect ictal autonomic dysfunction. | Term | |
193 | 2018-03-11 21:12:22 | abdominal ballottement | 1. palpation of the abdomen to detect excessive amounts of fluid (ascites) by causing organs to bob up and down in the fluid milieu. | Term | |
194 | 2018-03-11 21:12:24 | abdominal canal | Term | inguinal canal | |
195 | 2018-03-11 21:12:27 | abdominal cavity | 1. the space bounded by the abdominal walls, the diaphragm, and the pelvis; it usually is arbitrarily separated from the pelvic cavity by a plane across the superior aperture of the pelvis; however, it may include the pelvis with the abdomen (see abdominopelvic cavity); within the cavitas lie the greater part of the organs of digestion, the spleen, the kidneys, and the suprarenal glands. |
Term | cavitas abdominalis , cavum abdominis |
196 | 2018-03-11 21:12:32 | abdominal compartment syndrome | 1. a constellation consisting of cardiovascular, pulmonary, and renal compromise produced by increased intraabdominal pressure from bleeding (intraabdominal or retroperitoneal), ileus, peritonitis, or insufflation. | Term | |
197 | 2018-03-11 21:12:32 | abdominal cutaneous nerve entrapment syndrome | Term | intercostal neuralgia | |
198 | 2018-03-11 21:12:35 | abdominal dropsy | Term | ascites | |
199 | 2018-03-11 21:12:37 | abdominal external oblique (muscle) | Term | external oblique (muscle) | |
200 | 2018-03-11 21:12:41 | abdominal fibromatosis | Term | ||
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