| secondary medical care | Medical care by a physician who acts as a consultant at the request of the primary physician. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| secondary megaureter | Hydroureter secondary to vesicoureteral reflux or distal obstruction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| secondary mesoderm | Mesoderm derived from the primitive streak and lying between the ectoderm and endoderm. Synonym: secondary mesoderm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| secondary metabolism | Pathways producing specialised metabolic products that are not found inevery cell. (09 Oct 1997) |
| secondary metabolite | <biochemistry> Chemicals that are usually unique to one organism or class of organisms, and are not essential to cell survival. They perform specialised functions, for example, degrading food sources or fighting off other organisms. Many of the chemicals that plants or microorganisms produce that are of biochemical interest are secondary metabolites, including antibiotics. (14 Nov 1997) |
| secondary methemoglobinaemia | Methemoglobinaemia caused by various chemical agents, such as nitrites. Synonym: enterogenous methemoglobinaemia, secondary methemoglobinaemia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| secondary myeloid metaplasia | Myeloid metaplasia occurring in individuals with another disease. Synonym: symptomatic myeloid metaplasia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| secondary narcissism | In psychoanalysis, the psychic energy once attached to external objects, but now withdrawn from those objects and reinvested in the ego. (05 Mar 2000) |
| secondary nodule | A lymphatic nodule having a germinal centre. (05 Mar 2000) |
| secondary nondisjunction | Nondisjunction occurring in an aneuploid cell that was the result of a primary nondisjunction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| secondary oocyte | <gynaecology> An oocyte which arises from the primary oocyte (which was diploid) after it completes the first meiotic division after the body has become sexually mature. The secondary oocyte eventually divides into the mature egg or ovum (which is haploid) and a polar body (which degenerates), thus ending the second meiotic division. (13 Nov 1997) |
| secondary palate | The posterior portion of the embryonic palate, which forms from the palatal processes of the embryonic maxilla and develops into the hard palate. (05 Mar 2000) |
| secondary pellagra | Pellagra resulting from any morbid condition that impairs nutrition by increasing the requirement or reducing the available supply of vitamins. (05 Mar 2000) |
| secondary point of ossification | This is the centre of bone formation appearing later than the punctum ossificationis primarium, usually in epiphysis. Synonym: punctum ossificationis secundarium, secondary point of ossification. (05 Mar 2000) |
| secondary process | In psychoanalysis, the mental process directly related to the learned and acquired functions of the ego and characteristic of conscious and preconscious mental activities; marked by logical thinking and by the tendency to delay gratification by regulation of the discharge of instinctual demands. Compare: primary process. (05 Mar 2000) |