| AADR | American Academy of Dental Radiology |
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| AADS | American Academy of Dental Schools |
| ABDPH | American Board of Dental Public Health |
| ADA | adenosine deaminase; American Dental Association; American Dermatological Association; American Diab... |
| ADAA | American Dental Assistants Association |
| Kidd blood group | See Blood Groups appendix. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| kidd blood-group system | A group of antigens consisting principally of jk(a) and jk(b), determined by allelic genes. Amorphs are encountered. Antibodies of these substances are usually weak and quite labile, stimulated by erythrocytes. (12 Dec 1998) |
| uukuniemi group viruses | A group of viruses in the genus phlebovirus of the family bunyaviridae, infecting vertebrates and vectored by ticks. Its members have not been associated with human disease though antibodies have been isolated from human sera. (12 Dec 1998) |
| laramie group | <geology> An extensive series of strata, principally developed in the Rocky Mountain region, as in the Laramie Mountains, and formerly supposed to be of the Tertiary age, but now generally regarded as Cretaceous, or of intermediate and transitional character. It contains beds of lignite, often valuable for coal, and is hence also called the lignitic group. See Chart of Geology. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lateral group of axillary lymph nodes | Lymph nodes along the brachial vein that receive lymph drainage from most of the free superior limb and send efferent vessels to the central group of axillary lymph nodes. Synonym: nodi lymphatici brachiales, brachial lymph nodes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| functional group | 1. <chemistry> The specific atom that give a biomolecule a specific chemical characteristic. 2. <ecology> This ecological term refers to groups of organisms that obtain energy in similar ways. Autotrophic plants fix energy from sunlight. Fungi and bacteria decompose organic matter. Shredders chew large particles like tree leaves. Scrapers rasp periphyton and microbes from solid surfaces. Collectors filter fine particles from the water or gather them from deposits. (05 Jan 1998) |
| Lewis blood group | <haematology> A pair of blood group activities associated with the A, B, H substances. Lewis Lea is a separate gene, whereas Leb arises from the combined activity of the enzymes specified by Le(a) and H genes. (18 Nov 1997) |
| lewis blood-group system | A group of dominantly and independently inherited antigens associated with the abo blood factors. They are glycolipids present in plasma and secretions that may adhere to the erythrocytes. The phenotype le(b) is the result of the interaction of the le gene le(a) with the genes for the abo blood groups. (12 Dec 1998) |
| linkage group | A set of two or more loci that have been shown by linkage analysis to be physically close in the genome but that have not yet been assigned to specific chromosomes. It is rapidly becoming an outmoded term. (05 Mar 2000) |
| llandeilo group | <geology> A series of strata in the lower Silurian formations of Great Britain; so named from Llandeilo in Southern Wales. See Chart of Geology. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ludlow group | <geology> A subdivision of the British Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone; so named from the Ludlow, in Western England. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lutheran blood-group system | A complex blood group system having pairs of alternate antigens and amorphic genes, but also subject to a dominant independently segregating repressor. (12 Dec 1998) |
| acid etching, dental | Pretreatment of tooth surfaces with etching agents, usually phosphoric acid, to increase the adhesion of various resin systems. (12 Dec 1998) |
| american dental association | Professional society representing the field of dentistry. (12 Dec 1998) |
| anterior superior dental arteries | Origin, infraorbital artery within intraorbital canal; distribution, via anterior alveolar canals to upper incisors and canine teeth, mucus membrane of maxillary sinus. Synonym: arteriae alveolares superiores anteriores, anterior superior dental arteries. (05 Mar 2000) |