| AHS | Academy of Health Sciences; African horse sickness; alveolar hypoventilation syndrome; American Hear... |
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| AHSN | Assembly of Hospital Schools of Nursing |
| AOHA | American Osteopathic Hospital Association |
| APHA | American Protestant Hospital Association; American Public Health Association |
| ASHBM | Associate Scottish Hospital Bureau of Management |
| sea bear | <zoology> Any fur seal. See Fur. The white bear. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| sea beast | <zoology> Any large marine mammal, as a seal, walrus, or cetacean. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea bird | <zoology> Any swimming bird frequenting the sea; a sea fowl. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea blite | <botany> A plant (Suaeda maritima) of the Goosefoot family, growing in salt marches. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea-blubber | <zoology> A jellyfish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea-blue histiocyte | A histiocyte containing cytoplasmic granules that stain bright blue with haematologic stains such as Wright-Giemsa; found in bone marrow and in the spleen, associated with hepatosplenomegaly and thrombocytopenic purpura and in other blood diseases. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sea-blue histiocyte disease | Splenomegaly and mild thrombocytopenia, with histiocytes in the bone marrow which contain cytoplasmic granules that stain bright blue; sometimes familial; perhaps a lipidosis; autosomal recessive inheritance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sea-blue histiocyte syndrome | <syndrome> Rare disorder consisting of splenomegaly, mild purpura secondary to thrombocytopenia, and occasionally, hepatic cirrhosis associated with the appearance of numerous histiocytes in the spleen and bone marrow which stain a sea-blue colour. It is sometimes considered a variant of niemann-pick disease. (12 Dec 1998) |
| sea bream | <zoology> Any one of several species of sparoid fishes, especially the common European species (Pagellus centrodontus), the Spanish (P. Oweni), and the black sea bream (Cantharus lineatus); called also old wife. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea bug | <zoology> A chiton. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea butterfly | <zoology> A pteropod. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea cabbage | <botany> See Sea kale, under Kale. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea calf | <zoology> The common seal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea canary | <zoology> The beluga, or white whale. Origin: So called from a whistling sound which it makes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea cat | <zoology> The wolf fish. Any marine siluroid fish, as aelurichthys marinus, and Arinus felis, of the eastern coast of the United States. Many species are found on the coasts of Central and South America. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |