| FHR | familial hypophosphatemic rickets; fetal heart rate |
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| FHRNST | fetal heart rate nonstress test |
| FHS | fetal heart sound; fetal hydantoin syndrome; Floating Harbor syndrome |
| HAPPHY | Heart Attack Primary Prevention in Hypertension |
| HASHD | hypertensive arteriosclerotic heart disease |
| palmar metacarpal veins | Veins emptying into the deep venous arch from which the radial and ulnar veins arise. Synonym: venae metacarpeae palmares. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| varicose veins | Permanent dilation and tortuosity of vein's, most commonly seen in the legs, probably as a result of congenitally incomplete valves; there is a predisposition to varicose vein's among persons in occupations requiring long periods of standing, and in pregnant women. (05 Mar 2000) |
| palpebral veins | Veins draining the superior eyelid posteriorly as tributaries of the superior ophthalmic vein. Synonym: venae palpebrales, veins of eyelids. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pancreaticoduodenal veins | Veins that accompany the superior and inferior pancreaticoduodenal arteries, emptying into the superior mesenteric or portal vein. Synonym: venae pancreaticoduodenales. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pancreatic veins | Veins draining the pancreas, emptying into the splenic vein and the superior mesenteric vein. Synonym: venae pancreaticae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gastric veins | See: short gastric veins, right gastric vein, left gastric vein. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gastroepiploic veins | See: right gastroepiploic vein, left gastroepiploic vein. (05 Mar 2000) |
| veins | The vessels carrying blood toward the heart. (12 Dec 1998) |
| veins of caudate nucleus | Small veins from the caudate nucleus draining into the superior thalamostriate vein. Synonym: veins of caudate nucleus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| veins of cerebellum | The veins draining the cerebellum. See: inferior veins of cerebellar hemisphere, superior veins of cerebellar hemisphere, petrosal vein, precentral cerebellar vein, inferior vein of vermis, superior vein of vermis. Synonym: venae cerebelli, veins of cerebellum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| veins of eyelids | Veins draining the superior eyelid posteriorly as tributaries of the superior ophthalmic vein. Synonym: venae palpebrales, veins of eyelids. (05 Mar 2000) |
| veins of Galen | Paired veins passing caudally near the midline in the tela choroidea of the third ventricle, formed by the union of the choroid vein, thalamostriate (terminal) vein, and vein of septum pellucidum, and uniting caudally so as to form the great cerebral vein. Synonym: venae cerebri internae, veins of Galen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| veins of inferior eyelid | Veins of inferior eyelid; veins originatin gin the inferior eyelid and emptying into the angular vein. Synonym: venae palpebrales inferiores, veins of inferior eyelid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| veins of kidney | The tributaries of the renal vein that drain the kidney; they parallel the arteries in the kidney and consist of interlobular, arcuate, and interlobar veins. Synonym: venae renis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| veins of knee | The veins that accompany the genicular arteries; they drain blood from the structures around the knee, terminating in the popliteal vein. Synonym: venae genus. (05 Mar 2000) |