| DCS | De-Compression Sickness |
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| AMS | ablepharon-microstomia syndrome; acute mountain sickness; adenosylmethionine synthetase; aggravated ... |
| ASS | acute serum sickness; acute spinal stenosis; anterior superior spine; argininosuccinate synthetase |
| DCS | decompression sickness; dense canalicular system; diffuse cortical sclerosis; dorsal column stimulat... |
| DGS | decompression sickness; developmental Gerstmann syndrome; diabetic glomerulosclerosis; Di George seq... |
sea sickness
| horse-leech | 1. <zoology> A large blood-sucking leech (Haemopsis vorax), of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses. 2. A farrier; a veterinary surgeon. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| horse-leechery | The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| horse-radish | <botany> A plant of the genus Nasturtium (N. Armoracia), allied to scurvy grass, having a root of a pungent taste, much used, when grated, as a condiment and in medicine. Horse-radish tree. <botany> See Moringa. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| normal horse serum | The sterile and filtered serum of a healthy, unvaccinated horse. (05 Mar 2000) |
| african | Of or pertaining to Africa. African hemp, a fibre prerared from the leaves of the Sanseviera Guineensis, a plant found in Africa and India. African marigold, a tropical American plant (Tagetes erecta). African oak or African teak, a timber furnished by Oldfieldia Africana, used in ship building. Origin: L. Africus, Africanus, fr. Afer African. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| African endomyocardial fibrosis | Fibrosis of the inner layers of the myocardium, often including the endocardium, causing diastolic restriction of the heart; indigenous to East Africa. (05 Mar 2000) |
| African furuncular myiasis | Infection of man and animals with larvae of flies of the genus Cordylobia. Synonym: African furuncular myiasis, tumbu dermal myiasis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| african green monkey kidney cell | <cell culture> Cells taken from the kidneys of the African green monkey Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus and used to grow certain viruses like poliovirus. (05 Feb 1998) |
| African haemorrhagic fever | Haemorrhagic fever associated with the morphologically similar but antigenically distinct Marburg and Ebola viruses. See: viral haemorrhagic fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| african swine fever | A usually fatal iridovirus infection of pigs, characterised by fever, cough, diarrhoea, haemorrhagic lymph nodes, and oedema of the gallbladder. (12 Dec 1998) |
| african swine fever-like viruses | An unnamed, unclassified genus of DNA viruses with a single species: african swine fever virus. (12 Dec 1998) |
| african tapeworm | The beef tapeworm (Taenia saginata), the most common of the big tapeworms that parasitises people, contracted from infected raw or rare beef. Can grow to be 12-25 feet (3.6-7.5 m) long in the human intestine. (12 Dec 1998) |
| African tick fever | A form of haemorrhagic fever distinct from Omsk haemorrhagic fever, occurring in central Russia, transmitted by species of the tick Hyalomma, and caused by Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus, a member of the Bunyaviridae family; horses are the chief reservoir of human infection; characterised by abrupt onset, high fever, headache, myalgia, widespread petechial haemorrhagic lesions, gastrointestinal bleeding, high fatality rate. Synonym: African tick fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| african tick typhus | One of the tick-borne rickettsial diseases of the eastern hemisphere, similar to Rocky Mountain spotted fever, but less severe, with fever, a small ulcer (tache noire) at the site of the tick bite, swollen glands nearby (satellite lymphadenopathy), and a red raised (maculopapular) rash. Also called fi |
| African trypanosomiasis | A serious endemic disease in tropical Africa, of two types: Gambian or West African trypanosomiasis and Rhodesian or East African trypanosomiasis. (05 Mar 2000) |