| PCL | pacing cycle length; persistent corpus luteum; plasma cell leukemia; posterior chamber lens; posteri... |
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| PCM | patient care manager or management; patient classification system; primary cutaneous melanoma; proce... |
| PCN | penicillin; primary care nursing |
| PCOC | Primary Care Organization Consortium |
| PCON | Primary Care Organization Network |
| essential anaemia | An obsolete term for pernicious anaemia; also used formerly for any type of anaemia of unknown mechanism. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Faber's anaemia | A form of chronic hypochromic microcytic anaemia associated with achlorhydria or achylia gastrica; observed most frequently in women in the third to fifth decades. Synonym: Faber's anaemia, Faber's syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| false anaemia | Pallor of the skin and mucous membranes without the blood changes of anaemia. Synonym: false anaemia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| familial hypoplastic anaemia | Congenital nonregenerative, familial hypoplastic, or pure red cell anaemia; erythrogenesis imperfecta; Diamond-Blackfan syndrome; autosomal recessive normocytic normochromic anaemia resulting from congenital hypoplasia of the bone marrow, which is grossly deficient in erythroid precursors while other elements are normal; anaemia is progressive and severe, but leukocyte and platelet counts are normal or slightly reduced; survival of transfused erythrocytes is normal; minor congenital anomalies are found in some patients. Synonym: congenital nonregenerative anaemia, Diamond-Blackfan anaemia, Diamond-Blackfan syndrome, erythrogenesis imperfecta, familial hypoplastic anaemia, pure red cell anaemia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| familial microcytic anaemia | A rare type of autosomal recessive hypochromic microcytic anaemia associated with a defect of iron metabolism characterised by high serum iron, hepatic iron deposits, and absence of stainable bone marrow iron stores. (05 Mar 2000) |
| familial pyridoxine-responsive anaemia | A rare autosomal recessive hereditary hypochromic anaemia; autosomal trait, responsive to pyridoxine. (05 Mar 2000) |
| familial splenic anaemia | <disease> A chronic congenital disease of lipid metabolism caused by a deficiency of the beta-glucocerebrosidase enzyme. The defect is most common in Ashkenazi Jews. Clinical features are hepatosplenomegaly (enlargement of liver and spleen) and in severe early onset forms of the disease, with neurological dysfunction. Inheritance: autosomal recessive. (27 Sep 1997) |
| Fanconi's anaemia | <haematology> A rare inherited type of aplastic anaemia which carries an increased risk to the patient of developing leukaemia. May be treated by bone marrow transplant. Origin: Gr. Haima = blood (13 Nov 1997) |
| feline infectious anaemia | An acute or chronic anaemia of domestic cats caused by the rickettsia Haemobartonella felis. Synonym: haemobartonellosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| unstable haemoglobin haemolytic anaemia | A congenital haemolytic anaemia, due to autosomal inheritance of one of many unstable haemoglobins. The anaemia is of variable severity and characterised by the presence in vivo or in vitro of Heinz bodies. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fish tapeworm anaemia | A rare form of macrocytic anaemia associated with Diphyllobothrium latum infection, especially in Finland. Synonym: fish tapeworm anaemia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| folic acid deficiency anaemia | Anaemia due to deficiency of folic acid, characterised by large-sized red blood cells (macrocytosis) and presence of large nuclei in erythroid precursor cells (megaloblasts) in the bone marrow. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lead anaemia | Anaemia associated with poisoning from lead; thought to result from a defect in synthesis of haemoglobin based on the failure of iron being combined in the porphyrin ring. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Lederer's anaemia | An obsolete eponym for a form of acute acquired haemolytic anaemia associated with abnormal haemolysins and sometimes with haemoglobinuria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| leukoerythroblastic anaemia | <haematology> Any anaemia condition which arises from a space occupying lesion in the bone marrow. The circulating blood contains immature cells of the granulocytic series and nucleated red blood cells, frequently in numbers that are disproportionately large in relation to the degree of anaemia. Origin: Gr. Haima = blood (27 Sep 1997) |