| ARMS | adverse reaction monitoring system; amplification refractory mutation system |
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| CSD | carotid sinus denervation; cat scratch disease; combined system disease; conditionally streptomycin ... |
| FCS | faciocutaneoskeletal syndrome; fecal containment system; feedback control system; fetal calf serum; ... |
| HCPCS | Health Care Financing Administration common procedural collecting system; Health Care Financing Admi... |
| HIS | health information system; Health Interview Survey; histatin; histidine; hospital information system... |
| fertility agents, male | Compounds which increase the capacity of the male to induce conception. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| flavoring agents | Pharmaceutical or other preparations for improving the taste of a food or medicine. (12 Dec 1998) |
| foamy agents | Retroviruses of the subfamily Spumavirinae, found in primates and other mammals; so named because of lacelike changes produced in monkey kidney cells; syncytia are also produced. Synonym: foamy agents. (05 Mar 2000) |
| food colouring agents | Natural or synthetic dyes used as colouring agents in processed foods. (12 Dec 1998) |
| leprostatic agents | Substances that suppress mycobacterium leprae, ameliorate the clinical manifestations of leprosy, and/or reduce the incidence and severity of leprous reactions. (12 Dec 1998) |
| lipids and antilipaemic agents | A collective grouping for lipids and substances that maintain normal blood lipid levels. (12 Dec 1998) |
| lipotropic agents | Endogenous factors or drugs that act on fat metabolism by hastening the removal of or decreasing the deposit of fat in the liver. (12 Dec 1998) |
| lung perfusion agents | <radiology> Tc-99m MAA (macro-aggregated albumin), Tc-99m HAM (human albumin microspheres), dose 4 mCi, particles, size 10 - 90 m, number 200,000 - 400,000, effect 1 : 1000 arterioles embolised (12 Dec 1998) |
| lung ventilation agents | <radiology> Xe-133, most commonly used, Xe-127, t = 36.4 days; photons @ 172, 203, 375 keV, can image V after Q, Kr-81m, very expensive, t = 13 sec; photon 190 keV, can repeat V in each projection, Tc-99m DTPA aerosol, can image V in mult. Projections, image Q after V, 1 mCi most likely to be 50-75 mrad to lung, V/Q imaging (12 Dec 1998) |
| luteolytic agents | Chemical compounds causing corpus luteum regression or degeneration. (12 Dec 1998) |
| absolute system of units | A system based on absolute units accepted as being fundamental (length, mass, time) and from which other units (force, energy or work, power) are derived; such system's in common use are the foot-pound-second, centimeter-gram-second, and meter-kilogram-second system's. (05 Mar 2000) |
| absorbent system | <anatomy> The tissues and organs (including the bone marrow, spleen, thymus and lymph nodes) that produce and store cells that fight infection and the network of vessels that carry lymph. (12 May 1997) |
| alimentary system | The organs that are responsible for getting food into and out of the body and for making use of food to keep the body healthy. These include the mouth, oesophagus, stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, small intestine, colon, and rectum. (12 Dec 1998) |
| anterolateral system | A composite bundle of fibres, located in the ventrolateral part of the lateral funiculus, containing spinothalamic, spinohypothalamic, spinoreticular, and spinomesencephalic (spinotectal, spinal to periaqueductal grey, etc.) fibres; occupies the combined areas of the spinal white matter historically divided into anterior and lateral spinothalamic tracts; located in white matter ventral to the denticulate ligament, hence the anatomical basis for the anterolateral cordotomy; concerned with the transmission of nociceptive and thermal information and with crude (nondiscriminative) touch. (05 Mar 2000) |
| arch-loop-whorl system | See: Galton's system of classification of fingerprints. (05 Mar 2000) |