| LB | lamellar body; large bowel; left breast; left bronchus; left bundle; left buttock; leiomyoblastoma; ... |
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| LBF | Lactobacillus bulgaricus factor; limb blood flow; liver blood flow |
| LC | Laennec cirrhosis; Langerhans cell; late clamped; large chromophobe; lecithin cholesterol acyltransf... |
| LCAM | liver cell adhesion molecule |
| LCC | lactose coliform count; left circumflex coronary (artery); left common carotid; left coronary cusp; ... |
| urogenital diseases | Diseases of the urogenital tract. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| urologic and male genital diseases | A collective term for urinary tract diseases in male and female and diseases of the male genitalia. (12 Dec 1998) |
| urologic diseases | Diseases of the urinary tract in both male and female. It does not include the male genitalia for which urogenital diseases is used for general discussions of diseases of both the urinary tract and the genitalia. (12 Dec 1998) |
| uveal diseases | Diseases of the uvea. (12 Dec 1998) |
| fish diseases | Diseases of freshwater, marine, hatchery or aquarium fish. This term includes diseases of both teleosts (true fish) and elasmobranchs (sharks, rays and skates). (12 Dec 1998) |
| lacrimal apparatus diseases | Diseases of the lacrimal apparatus. (12 Dec 1998) |
| laryngeal diseases | Disorders of the larynx, general or unspecified. (12 Dec 1998) |
| lipid storage diseases | A series of disorders due to inborn errors in lipid metabolism resulting in the abnormal accumulation of lipids in the wrong places (examples include gaucher, fabry and niemann-pick diseases and metachromatic leukodystrophy). (12 Dec 1998) |
| lung diseases, interstitial | A heterogeneous group of noninfectious, nonmalignant disorders of the lower respiratory tract, affecting primarily the alveolar wall structures but also often involving the small airways and blood vessels of the lung parenchyma. "interstitial" refers to the fact that the interstitium of the alveolar walls is thickened, usually by fibrosis. This group of diseases is usually inflammatory. (12 Dec 1998) |
| lung diseases, obstructive | Any disorder marked by persistent obstruction of bronchial air flow. (12 Dec 1998) |
| lung diseases, parasitic | Infections of the lungs with a parasite. They are caused most commonly by nematodes (roundworms). (12 Dec 1998) |
| lymphatic diseases | Diseases of lymph or lymph vessels. (12 Dec 1998) |
| lysosomal diseases | Diseases (also called storage diseases) in which a deficiency of a particular lysosomal enzyme leads to accumulation of the undigested substrate for that enzyme within cells. Not immediately fatal, but within a few years lead to serious neurological and skeletal disorders and eventually to death. See: the following conditions: Hurler sundrome, Hunter syndrome, San Fillipo, Gaucher's disease, Niemann-Pick, Pompe's disease, Tay Sachs disease. (18 Nov 1997) |
| lysosomal storage diseases | Inborn errors of metabolism characterised by defects in specific lysosomal hydrolases and resulting in intracellular accumulation of unmetabolised substrates. (12 Dec 1998) |