| salt wasting | Inappropriately large renal excretion of salt despite the apparent need of the body to retain it. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| wasting | Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. <medicine> Wasting palsy, progressive muscular atrophy. See Progressive. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| wasting disease | A graft versus host reaction in mice first observed following intravenous injection of allogeneic spleen cells into newborn animals. Synonym: wasting disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wasting palsy | A serious neurologic disease that results from the progressive degeneration of the motor neurons. (27 Sep 1997) |
| wasting paralysis | A serious neurologic disease that results from the progressive degeneration of the motor neurons. (27 Sep 1997) |
| wasting syndrome | <syndrome> A condition characterised by loss of ten percent of normal weight without obvious cause. The weight loss is largely the result of depletion of the protein in lean body mass and represents a metabolic derangement frequent during AIDS. (31 Dec 1997) |
| HIV wasting syndrome | <syndrome> Involuntary weight loss of greater than 10 percent associated with intermittent or constant fever and chronic diarrhoea or fatigue for more than 30 days in the absence of a defined cause other than HIV infection. A constant feature is major muscle wasting with scattered myofibre degeneration. A variety of aetiologies, which vary among patients, contributes to this syndrome. (12 Dec 1998) |
| acid salt | A salt in which not all of the ionizable hydrogen of the acid is replaced by the electropositive element; e.g., NaHSO4, KH2PO4. Synonym: bisalt, protosalt. (05 Mar 2000) |
| artificial Carlsbad salt | A mixture of potassium sulfate, sodium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, and dried sodium sulfate; a laxative. (05 Mar 2000) |
| artificial Kissingen salt | A mixture of potassium chloride, sodium chloride, anhydrous magnesium sulfate, and sodium bicarbonate; an antacid and laxative. (05 Mar 2000) |
| artificial Vichy salt | A mixture of sodium bicarbonate, anhydrous magnesium sulfate, potassium carbonate, and sodium chloride; an antacid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| basic salt | A salt in which there are one or more hydroxyl ions not replaced by the electronegative element of an acid; e.g., Fe(OH)2Cl. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bile salt | <biochemistry> Amphipathic compounds that aid digestion and lipid absorption, they are derived from steroids and have some detergent properties. (09 Oct 1997) |
| bile salt agar | An agar medium containing lactose, peptone, sodium taurocholate, and neutral red, for the growth and isolation of Gram-negative rods. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bile salt sulfatase | <enzyme> Produces microorganism from the faecal flora of conventional rats Registry number: EC 3.1.6.- Synonym: bile acid sulfate sulfatase (26 Jun 1999) |
| bile-salt sulfotransferase | <enzyme> Catalyses the sulfation of glycolithocholate and taurolithocholate Registry number: EC 2.8.2.14 Synonym: bile acid sulfotransferase, bile salt-3'-phosphoadenosine-5'-phosphosulfate-sulfotransferase, bile salt sulfotransferase (26 Jun 1999) |