| EDS | edema disease of swine; egg drop syndrome; Ehlers-Danlos syndrome; Emery-Dreifus syndrome; energy-di... |
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| FS | factor of safety; Fanconi syndrome; Felty syndrome; fibromyalgia syndrome; field stimulation; Fisher... |
| GS | gallstone; Gardner syndrome; gastric shield; general surgery; gestational score; Gilbert syndrome; g... |
| HSS | Hallermann-Streiff syndrome; Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome; Henoch-Schonlein syndrome; high-speed supe... |
| MAS | magic angle spinning; Manifest Anxiety Scale; maximum average score; McCune-Albright syndrome; mecon... |
| Book syndrome | <syndrome> Premolar aplasia, hyperhidrosis, and premature canities; autosomal dominant trait. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Borjeson-Forssman-Lehmann syndrome | <syndrome> A condition characterised by mental deficiency, epilepsy, hypogonadism, hypometabolism, obesity, and narrow palpebral fissures; X-linked recessive inheritance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bowel bypass syndrome | <syndrome> Fever, chills, malaise, and inflammatory cutaneous papules and pustules on the extremities and upper trunk, sometimes with polyarthralgia, with recurrent symptoms following bowel bypass surgery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bradytachycardia syndrome | <syndrome> Alternate rapid and slow cardiac rates that may represent any rhythm disturbances in any combination usually related to sinus node disease. Synonym: tachybradycardia syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| branchio-oto-renal syndrome | <syndrome> An autosomal dominant disorder manifested by various combinations of preauricular pits, branchial fistulae or cysts, lacrimal duct stenosis, hearing loss, structural defects of the outer, middle, or inner ear, and renal dysplasia. Associated defects include asthenic habitus, long narrow facies, constricted palate, deep overbite, and myopia. Hearing loss may be due to mondini type cochlear defect and stapes fixation. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Briquet's syndrome | <syndrome> A chronic but fluctuating mental disorder, usually of young women, characterised by frequent complaints of physical illness involving multiple organ systems simultaneously. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Brissaud-Marie syndrome | <syndrome> Unilateral spasm of the tongue and lips, of hysterical nature. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Brock's syndrome | Atelectasis of the right middle pulmonary lobe, with chronic pneumonitis. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Brown-Sequard's syndrome | <neurology, syndrome> A type of spinal cord lesion that is characterised by hemiparaplegia and hyperesthesia, but with loss of motor function on the same side as the lesion and hemianaesthesia on the opposite side. (27 Sep 1997) |
| brown-sequard syndrome | <syndrome> A syndrome due to damage of one half of the spinal cord, resulting in ipsilateral paralysis below the level of the lesion and loss of discriminatory and joint sensation, and contralateral loss of pain and temperature sensation. Brown-sequard was a french physiologist, 1817-1894. The syndrome is also called brown-sequard disease and brown-sequard paralysis but this latter should not be confused with a flaccid paralysis seen in disorders of the urinary tract called by the same name. (12 Dec 1998) |
| brown's syndrome | <syndrome> An ophthalmology (eye) problem. Brown's syndrome presents as an abnormality at birth (congenitally) and is characterised by an inability to elevate the eyeball when also trying to move the eyeball to the outside. Brown's syndrome can also occur because of other conditions which affect the normal function of the eye muscles. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Brugsch's syndrome | <radiology> Idiopathic, familial hypertrophic osteoarthropathy, boys at puberty, blacks more than whites, familial, periosteal reaction, thick skin: extremities and forehead, hyperhidrosis, relatively pain free (12 Dec 1998) |
| Budd-Chiari syndrome | <gastroenterology, syndrome> Liver dysfunction due to occlusion of the hepatic veins. May be congenital. (27 Sep 1997) |
| Budd's syndrome | <syndrome> Thrombosis of the hepatic vein with great enlargement of the liver and extensive development of collateral vessels, intractable ascites, and severe portal hypertension. Synonym: Budd's syndrome, Budd-Chiari syndrome, Chiari's disease, Chiari-Budd syndrome, Rokitansky's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Burger-Grutz syndrome | Hyperlipoproteinaemia characterised by the presence of large amounts of chylomicrons and triglycerides in the plasma when the patient has a normal diet, and their disappearance on a fat-free diet; low alpha-and beta-lipoproteins on a normal diet, with increase on fat-free diet; decreased plasma postheparin lipolytic activity; and low tissue lipoprotein lipase activity. It is accompanied by bouts of abdominal pain, hepatosplenomegaly, pancreatitis, and eruptive xanthomas; autosomal recessive inheritance. See: familial lipoprotein lipase inhibitor. Synonym: Burger-Grutz syndrome, familial fat-induced hyperlipaemia, familial hyperchylomicronaemia, familial hypertriglyceridemia, idiopathic hyperlipaemia. (05 Mar 2000) |