| after damp | An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| after-nystagmus | Nystagmus occurring after the abrupt cessation of rotation in the opposite direction of the rotatory nystagmus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| afterbirth | <medicine> The placenta and membranes with which the foetus is connected, and which come away after delivery. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| aftercare | The care and treatment of a convalescent patient, especially that of a patient after surgery. (12 Dec 1998) |
| aftercataract | A cataract that accompanies or follows some other eye disease such as uveitis. Synonym: complicated cataract. A cataract occurring in the retained lens or capsule after a cataract extraction. Synonym: aftercataract. (05 Mar 2000) |
| afterchroming | Additional treatment of a tissue specimen with chromate or a metal mordant to impart special staining properties. Synonym: postchroming. (05 Mar 2000) |
| aftercontraction | A muscular contraction persisting a noticeable time after the stimulus has ceased. (05 Mar 2000) |
| aftercooling | <radiobiology> Cooling of a reactor after it has been shut down. (09 Oct 1997) |
| aftercurrent | An electrical current induced in a muscle upon the termination of a constant current that has been passed through it. (05 Mar 2000) |
| afterdischarge | Persistance of response of muscle or neural elements after cessation of stimulation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| aftereffect | A physical, physiologic, psychologic, or emotional effect that continues after removal of the stimulus. See: flashback. (05 Mar 2000) |
| aftergilding | The treatment of a fixed and hardened histologic specimen of nervous tissue with gold salts. (05 Mar 2000) |
| afterglow | <radiobiology> Recombination radiation emitted from a cooling plasma when the source of ionisation (heating, etc) is removed. See: recombination radiation. (09 Oct 1997) |
| afterimage | Continuation of visual impression after cessation of stimuli causing the original image. (12 Dec 1998) |
| afterimpression | Subjective persistance of sensation after cessation of stimulus. Synonym: afterimpression. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vaginal birth after cesarean | Delivery of an infant through the vagina in a female who has had a prior cesarean section. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| vaginal birth after cesarian section | It was once the rule that after a c-section, the next delivery also had to be by c-section. Now vaginal delivery after cesarian section (vbac) is frequently feasible. See: vbac. (12 Dec 1998) |
| cesarian section, vaginal birth after | It was once the rule that after a C-section, the next delivery also had to be by C-section. Now vaginal delivery after Cesarian section (VBAC) is frequently feasible. (12 Dec 1998) |
| delayed coma after hypoxia | Coma that develops a few days to 3 weeks after an acute hypoxic insult; the latter was usually severe enough to cause an initial bout of coma, which cleared, and was followed by a transient interval of apparent normality. Synonym: severe postanoxic encephalopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fluorescence recovery after photobleaching | Many fluorochromes are bleached by exposure to exciting light. If, for example: the cell surface is labelled with a fluorescent probe and an area bleached by laser illumination, then the bleached patch that starts off as a dark area will gradually recover fluorescence. The recovery is due to the re population of the area by unbleached molecules and diffusion of bleached molecules to other areas. The rate and extent of recovery are a measure of the fluidity of the membrane and the proportion of labelled molecules that are free to exchange with adjacent areas. The technique is usually applied to cell surface fluidity or viscosity measurements, but is also applicable to other structures. (18 Nov 1997) |