| SEMI | subendocardial myocardial infarction |
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| SIQR | semi-interquartile range |
| SP | sacroposterior; sacrum to pubis; salivary progesterone; schizotypal personality; semi-private [room]... |
| FP | false positive; family physician; family planning; family practice; family practitioner; Fanconi pan... |
| FPA | Family Planning Association; fibrinopeptide A; filter paper activity; fluorophenylalanine |
| PRIST | Paper Radio Immuno Sorbent Test |
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| Log | logarithmic |
| MSRV | Modified Semi-Solid Rappaport Vassiliadis |
| SCC | semi-circular canals |
| logarithmic phase | <cell culture> The steepest slope of the growth curve of a culture--the phase of vigorous growth during which cell number doubles every 20-30 minutes. (15 Nov 1997) |
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| semi | <prefix> A prefix signifying half, and sometimes partly or imperfectly; as, semiannual, half yearly; semitransparent, imperfectly transparent. The prefix semi is joined to another word either with the hyphen or without it. In this book the hyphen is omitted except before a capital letter; as, semiacid, semiaquatic, semi-Arian, semiaxis, semicalcareous. Origin: L. Semi; akin to Gr, Skr. Sami-, AS. Sam-, and prob. To E. Same, from the division into two parts of the same size. Cf. Hemi-, Sandelend. (29 Oct 1998) |
| semi-apochromatic objective | <microscopy> A compromise, in the correction for chromatic and spherical aberration, between achromatic and apochromatic objectives, such as a fluorite objective. (05 Aug 1998) |
| semi-closed anaesthesia | Inhalation anaesthesia using a circuit in which a portion of the exhaled air is exhausted from the circuit and a portion is rebreathed following absorption of carbon dioxide. (05 Mar 2000) |
| semi-closed circle | A circuit for administration of an inhalation anaesthetic in which partial rebreathing with carbon dioxide absorption is combined with loss from the circuit of a portion of respired gases through valves. (05 Mar 2000) |
| semi-open anaesthesia | <anaesthetics> Inhalation anaesthesia in which a portion of inhaled gases is derived from an anaesthesia circuit while the remainder consists of room air. (05 Mar 2000) |
| semi pupa | <zoology> The young of an insect in a stage between the larva and pupa. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| semi-vegetarian | A vegetarian who consumes dairy products, eggs, chicken, and fish, but does not consume other animal flesh. (05 Mar 2000) |
| articulating paper | occluding paper |
| paper | 1. A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wood, or other fibrous material, which is first reduced to pulp, then molded, pressed, and dried. 2. A sheet, leaf, or piece of such substance. 3. A printed or written instrument; a document, essay, or the like; a writing; as, a paper read before a scientific society. "They brought a paper to me to be signed." (Dryden) 4. A printed sheet appearing periodically; a newspaper; a journal; as, a daily paper. 5. Negotiable evidences of indebtedness; notes; bills of exchange, and the like; as, the bank holds a large amount of his paper. 6. Decorated hangings or coverings for walls, made of paper. See Paper hangings, below. 7. A paper containing (usually) a definite quantity; as, a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc. 8. A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application; as, cantharides paper. Paper is manufactured in sheets, the trade names of which, together with the regular sizes in inches, are shown in the following table. But paper makers vary the size somewhat. In the manufacture of books, etc, a sheet, of whatever size originally, is termed, when folded once, a folio; folded twice, a quarto, or 4to; three times, an octavo, or 8vo; four times, a sextodecimo, or 16mo; five times, a 32mo; three times, with an offcut folded twice and set in, a duodecimo, or 12mo; four times, with an offcut folded three times and set in, a 24mo. Paper is often used adjectively or in combination, having commonly an obvious signification; as, paper cutter or paper-cutter; paper knife, paper-knife, or paperknife; paper maker, paper-maker, or papermaker; paper mill or paper-mill; paper weight, paper-weight, or paperweight, etc. Business paper, checks, notes, drafts, etc, given in payment of actual indebtedness; opposed to accommodation paper. Fly paper, paper covered with a sticky preparation, used for catching flies. Laid paper. See Laid. <botany> Paper birch, any wasp which makes a nest of paperlike material, as the yellow jacket. Paper weight, any object used as a weight to prevent loose papers from being displaced by wind, or otherwise. Parchment paper. See Papyrine. Tissue paper, thin, gauzelike paper, such as is used to protect engravings in books. Wall paper. Same as Paper hangings, above. Waste paper, paper thrown aside as worthless or useless, except for uses of little account. Wove paper, a writing paper with a uniform surface, not ribbed or watermarked. Origin: F. Papier, fr. L. Papyrus papyrus, from which the Egyptians made a kind of paper, Gr. Cf. Papyrus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| paper chromatography | <technique> Separation method in which filter paper is used as the support. A type of chromatography in which the stationary phase is a sheet of special-grade filter paper. It is in all other aspects similar to thin-layer chromatography. Not a very sensitive method, but historically important as one of the first methods available for separating natural compounds. (07 Mar 2000) |
| paper mill worker's disease | <chest medicine> Extrinsic allergic alveolitis caused by moldy wood pulp containing spores of Alternaria fungi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| paper plate | A thin plate of ethmoid bone forming part of the medial wall of the orbit and the lateral wall for the ethmoidal labyrinth. Synonym: lamina orbitalis ossis ethmoidalis, lamina papyracea, orbital lamina of ethmoid bone, orbital layer of ethmoid bone, orbital plate, paper plate, papyraceous plate. (05 Mar 2000) |
| glucose oxidase paper strip test | <chemical pathology> A qualitative test for glucose in the urine, in which glucose is oxidised to gluconic acid by glucose oxidase; a specific test, unless ascorbic acid is present. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chromatography paper | Used in paper chromatography. Synonym: high quality filter paper. Congo red paper, paper impregnated with Congo red; used as a pH indicator, changing from blue-violet at 3.0 to red at 5.0. Filter paper, an unsized paper used in pharmacy and chemistry for filtering solutions; many varieties are used for paper chromatography. (05 Mar 2000) |
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