| TAHL | Thick Ascending limb of Henle's Loop |
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| AFL | antifibrinolysin; artificial limb; atrial flutter |
| aVF | unipolar limb lead on the left leg in electrocardiography |
| aVL | unipolar limb lead on the left arm in electrocardiography |
| aVR | unipolar limb lead on the right arm in electrocardiography |
| chauffer's fracture | A fracture of the wrist that is characterised by an oblique fracture of the radial styloid. (27 Sep 1997) |
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| chauffeur's fracture | <radiology> Radial styloid fracture due to direct blow, (so named because of trauma from hand-cranked starters) see: wrist fractures (12 Dec 1998) |
| chisel fracture | <radiology> Incomplete fracture of radial head (intra-articular) due to fall on outstretched hand (12 Dec 1998) |
| greenstick fracture | The bending of a bone with incomplete fracture involving the convex side of the curve only. (05 Mar 2000) |
| growing fracture | Linear skull fracture in a young child which increases in size, usually as the result of an associated dural tear and arachnoid cyst formation within the fracture line. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pertrochanteric fracture | A fracture through the great trochanter of the femur; a form of extracapsular hip fracture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Guerin's fracture | A fracture of the facial bones in which there is a horizontal fracture at the base of the maxillae above the apices of the teeth. Synonym: horizontal fracture, Le Fort I fracture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chopart fracture-dislocation | <radiology> A fracture-dislocation occuring through the hindfoot-midfoot joint (i.e., tarsonavicular and calcaneocuboid joints) (12 Dec 1998) |
| gutter fracture | A long, narrow, depressed fracture of the skull. (05 Mar 2000) |
| clay shoveler's fracture | <radiology> Avulsion fracture of spinous process of C7 or T1, sudden load on a flexed spine, may occur secondary to rotational injury see: cervical spine fractures (12 Dec 1998) |
| closed fracture | A fracture in which skin is intact at site of fracture. Synonym: simple fracture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| closed skull fracture | Fracture with intact overlying scalp and/or mucous membranes. Synonym: simple skull fracture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wagstaffe's fracture | Fracture, with displacement, of the medial malleolus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| piedmont fracture | <radiology> Closed fracture of radius, at the junction of the middle and distal thirds, no associated ulnar fracture, due to direct blow (12 Dec 1998) |
| pilon fracture | A fracture of the distal metaphysis of the tibia extending into the ankle joint. (05 Mar 2000) |