| TBBM | total body bone minerals |
|---|---|
| TPBS | three-phase radionuclide bone scanning |
| UDR-BMD | ultradistal radius bone mineral density |
| Lillie's allochrome connective tissue stain | <technique> A procedure using PAS, haematoxylin, picric acid, and methyl blue; used for distinction between basement membrane and reticulin, and for demonstration of arteriosclerotic lesions. (05 Mar 2000) |
|---|---|
| Lillie's azure-eosin stain | <technique> A stain in which an azure eosinate solution is used to stain bacteria and rickettsiae in tissues. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Lillie's ferrous iron stain | <technique> A method using potassium ferrocyanide in acetic acid which demonstrates melanins as a deep green colour; lipofuscins and haem pigments are unreactive. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Lillie's sulfuric acid Nile blue stain | <technique> A technique for showing fatty acids when present in high concentrations. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Lison-Dunn stain | <technique> A technique using leuco patent blue V and hydrogen peroxidase to demonstrate haemoglobin peroxidase on time sections and smears. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Loeffler's caustic stain | <technique> A stain for flagella, utilizing an aqueous solution of tannin and ferrous sulfate with the addition of an alcoholic fuchsin stain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Loeffler's stain | <technique> A stain for flagella; the specimen is treated with a mixture of ferrous sulfate, tannic acid, and alcoholic fuchsin, then stained with aniline-water fuchsin or gentian violet made alkaline with sodium hydroxide solution. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Luna-Ishak stain | <technique> A staining method using celestine blue and acid fuchsin in which bile canaliculi stain pink to red. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acute reflex bone atrophy | Atrophy of bones, commonly of the carpal or tarsal bones, following a slight injury such as a sprain. See: causalgia, reflex sympathetic dystrophy. Synonym: acute reflex bone atrophy, posttraumatic osteoporosis, Sudeck's syndrome. Origin: L. English sweat (05 Mar 2000) |
| air-bone gap | The difference between the threshold for hearing acuity by bone conduction and by air conduction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Albrecht's bone | A small bone between the basioccipital and basisphenoid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| alveolar bone | That portion of bone in either the maxilla or the mandible which surrounds and supports the teeth. (12 Dec 1998) |
| alveolar bone loss | The resorption of bone in the supporting structures of the maxilla or mandible as a result of periodontal disease. (12 Dec 1998) |
| alveolar supporting bone | alveolar process |
| amyloidosis: bone manifestations | <radiology> Joint pain without radiographic findings, osteoporosis, especially in axial skeleton, lytic lesions that destroy cortex and invade soft tissue, wrist, scaphoid and lunate lesions that may extend into the carpal tunnel, inducing the classic complaints of carpal tunnel syndrome amyloid arthropathy Differential diagnosis: pigmented villonodular synovitis, synovial chondromatosis, rheumatoid arthritis, TB (12 Dec 1998) |