| OALF | organic acid labile fluid |
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| PA | partial pressure of arterial fluid |
| PAFD | percutaneous abscess and fluid drainage; pulmonary artery filling defect |
| Parkinson's Disease Foundation; peritoneal dialysis fluid; Portable Document Format; pyruvate dehydr... | |
| PEF | peak expiratory flow; Psychiatric Evaluation Form; pulmonary edema fluid |
| follicular cyst | <physiology> Cyst due to the occlusion of the duct of a follicle or small gland. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| lateral periodontal cyst | An intraosseous cyst, usually encountered in the cuspid-premolar region of the mandible, derived from the remnants of the dental lamina and representing the intraosseous counterpart of the gingival cyst. (05 Mar 2000) |
| leptomeningeal cyst | <radiology> Growing skull fracture, trauma most likely to be , skull fracture with tear of dura, herniation of fluid-filled arachnoid tissue, cyst walled off by subarchnoid adhesions, XR: oval area of bony erosion with scalloped margins, may result in acquired encephalocele (12 Dec 1998) |
| liver cyst | <radiology> Simple cyst, polycystic liver disease (50% most likely to be renal cysts), abscess (pyogenic, amebic, hydatid), traumatic haematoma, Caroli disease, cystic hepatoblastoma, cystadenoma / cystadenocarcinoma, haemangioendothelioma, cystic metastasis (uncommon): sarcoma, melanoma, ovarian cystadenocarcinoma (12 Dec 1998) |
| lymphoepithelial cyst | A cervical cyst arising from salivary gland epithelium entrapped in lymph nodes during embryogenesis. Also seen within the oral cavity. (05 Mar 2000) |