| BaS | barium swallow |
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| DS | dead air space; dead space; deep sedative; deep sleep; defined substrate; dehydroepiandrosterone sul... |
| WS | Waardenburg syndrome; ward secretary; Warkany syndrome; Warthin-Starry [stain]; water soluble; water... |
| GVA | general visceral afferent [nerve] |
| GVE | general visceral efferent [nerve] |
| AVF | Abdominal visceral fat |
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| AVL | American Visceral Leishmaniasis |
| GVEC | Glomerular visceral epithelial cell |
| JVS | Juvenile visceral steatosis |
| VLM | Visceral Larva migrans |
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| barium swallow | An upper gastrointestinal series (barium swallow) is an X-ray test used to define the anatomy of the upper digestive tract. Women who are or may be pregnant should notify the doctor requesting the procedure and the radiology staff. The test involves filling the oesophagus, stomach, and small intestines with a white liquid material (barium). (12 Dec 1998) |
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| sea swallow | 1. <zoology> The common tern. The storm petrel. The gannet. 2. See Cornish chough, under Chough. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hypaque swallow | gastrografin swallow |
| somatic swallow | A swallowing pattern with muscular contractions which appear to be under control of the person at a subconscious level; distinguished from visceral swallow. Visceral swallow, the immature swallowing pattern of an infant or a person with tongue thrust, resembling peristaltic wavelike muscular contractions observed in the gut; adult or mature swallowing is more volitional and therefore somatic. (05 Mar 2000) |
| swallow | 1. To take into the stomach; to receive through the gullet, or oesophagus, into the stomach; as, to swallow food or drink. "As if I had swallowed snowballs for pills." (Shak) 2. To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb usually followed by up. "The earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses." (Num. Xvi. 32) 3. To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; to receive implicitly. "Though that story . . . Be not so readily swallowed." (Sir T. Browne) 4. To engross; to appropriate; usually with up. "Homer excels . . . In this, that he swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him." (Pope) 5. To occupy; to take up; to employ. "The necessary provision of the life swallows the greatest part of their time." (Locke) 6. To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume. "Corruption swallowed what the liberal hand Of bounty scattered." (Thomson) 7. To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions. "Swallowed his vows whole." 8. To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult. Synonym: To absorb, imbibe, ingulf, engross, consume. See Absorb. Origin: OE. Swolewen, swolwen, swolhen, AS. Swelgan; akin to D. Zwelgen, OHG. Swelahan, swelgan, G. Schwelgen to feast, to revel, Icel. Svelgia to swallow, SW. Svalja, Dan. Svaelge. Cf. Groundsel a plant. 1. <ornithology> Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. The most common North American species are the barn swallow (see under Barn), the cliff, or eaves, swallow (see under Cliff), the white-bellied, or tree, swallow (Tachycineta bicolour), and the bank swallow (see under Bank). The common European swallow (Chelidon rustica), and the window swallow, or martin (Chelidon urbica), are familiar species. 2. <zoology> Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift. 3. The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves. <zoology> Swallow plover, any one of numerous species of East Indian and Australian singing birds of the genus Dicaeum. They are allied to the honeysuckers. Origin: OE. Swalowe, AS. Swalewe, swealwe; akin to D. Zwaluw, OHG. Swalawa, G. Schwalbe, Icel. & Sw. Svala, Dan. Svale. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| swallow syncope | Faintness or unconsciousness upon swallowing. This is nearly always due to excessive vagal effect on the heart that may already have bradycardia or atrioventricular block. (05 Mar 2000) |
| swallow-tailed | 1. Having a tail like that of a swallow; hence, like a swallow's tail in form; having narrow and tapering or pointed skirts; as, a swallow-tailed coat. 2. United by dovetailing; dovetailed. Swallow-tailed duck, a European moth (Urapteryx sambucaria) having tail-like lobes on the hind wings. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bones of visceral cranium | The facial skeleton, consisting of bones situated between the cranial base and the mandibular region. While some consider the facial bones to comprise the hyoid, palatine, and zygomatic bones, mandible, and maxilla, others include also the lacrimal and nasal bones, inferior nasal concha, and vomer but exclude the hyoid bone. (12 Dec 1998) |
| general visceral afferent column | A column of gray matter in the hindbrain and spinal cord of the embryo, developing into the nucleus of the solitary tract and relay cells of the spinal cord. (05 Mar 2000) |
| general visceral efferent column | A column of gray matter in the hindbrain and spinal cord of the embryo, represented in the adult by the dorsal nucleus of the vagus, the superior and inferior salivatory and Edinger-Westphal nuclei and the visceral motor neurons of the spinal cord. (05 Mar 2000) |
| visceral | <anatomy> From viscus, pertaining to a viscus. Origin: L. Visceralis (13 Oct 1997) |
| visceral afferents | The sensory fibres innervating the viscera. (12 Dec 1998) |
| visceral anaesthesia | Loss of sensation in areas of the visceral peritoneum innervated by the splanchnic nerves. Synonym: visceral anaesthesia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| visceral arches | Typically, 6 arch's in vertebrates; in the lower vertebrates, they bear gills; in the higher vertebrates, they appear transiently and give rise to specialised structures in the head and neck. Synonym: pharyngeal arches, visceral arches. (05 Mar 2000) |
| visceral brain | Collective term denoting a heterogeneous array of brain structures at or near the edge (limbus) of the medial wall of the cerebral hemisphere, in particular the hippocampus, amygdala, and fornicate gyrus; the term is often used so as to include also the interconnections of these structures, as well as their connections with the septal area, the hypothalamus, and a medial zone of mesencephalic tegmentum. By way of the latter connections, the limbic system exerts an important influence upon the endocrine and autonomic motor system's; its functions also appear to affect motivational and mood states. Synonym: visceral brain. (05 Mar 2000) |
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