| FA | false aneurysm; Families Anonymous; Fanconi anemia; far advanced; fatty acid; febrile antigen; femor... |
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| GBA | ganglionic blocking agent; gingivobuccoaxial |
| GRA | gated radionuclide angiography; glucocorticoid-remedial aldosteronism; gonadotropin-releasing agent |
| GTA | gene transfer agent; Glanzmann thrombasthenia; glycerol teichoic acid |
| HRLA | human reovirus-like agent |
| deciduous skin | 1. Separation or loosening of the horny layer of the epidermis. 2. Specifically, a disease characterised by a shedding of the epidermis recurring at more or less regular intervals. Synonym: deciduous skin. Origin: kerato-+ G. Lysis, loosening (05 Mar 2000) |
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| syndrome, scalded skin | See Scalded skin syndrome. (12 Dec 1998) |
| diamond skin | The appearance of the affected site in erysipeloid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| diamond skin disease | A form of swine erysipelas, caused by the bacterium Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, in which rhomboidal erythematous areas appear on the skin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| infantile acute haemorrhagic oedema of the skin | A generally benign form of cutaneous vasculitis, characterised by ecchymotic purpura, often in a cockade pattern, and inflammatory oedema in infants. (05 Mar 2000) |
| elastic skin | |
| toad skin | A follicular hyperkeratotic eruption thought to be due to deficiency of vitamin A. Synonym: toad skin. Origin: G. Phrynos, toad, + derma, skin (05 Mar 2000) |
| tubular glands of the skin | The blind extremity of which is coiled in the form of a ball or glomerulus; collective term for small eccrine and large apocrine sweat glands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| yellow skin | The occurrence of patches of yellow colour in the skin, resembling xanthoma, but without the nodules or plates. Synonym: cholesteroderma, xanthochroia, xanthoderma, xanthopathy, yellow disease, yellow skin. Origin: xantho-+ G. Chroma, colour (05 Mar 2000) |
| farmer's skin | Dry, wrinkled skin with presence of dry premalignant keratoses; observed most commonly in fair-skinned, blue-eyed persons who are exposed by occupation or sport to sunshine for prolonged periods and over many years. Synonym: golfer's skin, sailor's skin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| layers of skin | See: epidermis, dermis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| loose skin | A group of connective tissue diseases in which skin hangs in loose pendulous folds. It is believed to be associated with decreased elastic tissue formation as well as an abnormality in elastin formation. Cutis laxa is usually a genetic disease, but acquired cases have been reported. (12 Dec 1998) |
| lumpy skin disease | A poxvirus infection of cattle characterised by the appearance of nodules on all parts of the skin. (12 Dec 1998) |
| lumpy skin disease virus | <virology> A species of capripoxvirus causing a cattle disease occurring in africa. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Abbe test plate | <equipment> A long, wedge-shaped coverslip about 0.20 mm thick at one end and 0.10 to 0.12 mm at the other end coated chemically with a silver film on which are ruled horizontal lines. at each variation in thickness of 0.01 mm there are vertical lines. By means of oblique illumination and by focusing on different portions of the plate, it is possible to determine the optimum coverslip thickness for any objective and also, for microscopes with drawtubes, the tube length for best objective performance. The approximate freedom from spherical and chromatic aberrations can also be estimated. Small isolated bits of silver near the edges of the lines form good objects for the star test (05 Aug 1998) |