| WB | waist belt; washable base; washed bladder; water bottle; Wechsler-Bellevue [Scale]; weight-bearing; ... |
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| WBC | well baby care/clinic; white blood cell; white blood cell count; whole blood cell count |
| FTP | Failure To Progress, where dilation stalls or labor does not progress fast enough in the provider's ... |
| pulv. | pulvis; Powder; 분제, 가루약 |
| APE | acetone powder extract; acute polioencephalitis; acute psychotic episode; airway pressure excursion;... |
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| blue baby | A baby born with various defects in the structure of the heart and major blood vessels such as tetralogy of Fallot and transposition of the great vessels. The net result is the inability to oxygenate the blood resulting in cyanosis (bluish discolouration to the skin). Immediate surgical procedures are currently available to correct these genetic abnormalities. (27 Sep 1997) |
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| blueberry muffin baby | Jaundice and purpura, especially of the face in the newborn, which may result from intrauterine viral infection. (05 Mar 2000) |
| collodion baby | A newborn child with lamellar ichthyosis; at birth, the skin is bright red, shiny, translucent, and drawn tight, giving a distorted appearance (as if having been painted with collodion) of immobilization of the face; contraction of the skin causes ectropion, a pressed down appearance of the nose, and a gaping of the mouth and the labia; autosomal dominant inheritance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| syndrome, floppy baby | Floppy baby syndrome is a general medical reference to an abnormal condition of newborns and infants manifest by inadequate tone of the muscles. Hypotonia (inadequately toned muscles resulting in floppiness) in the newborn period and infancy can be due to a multitude of different neurologic and muscle problems. (12 Dec 1998) |
| test-tube baby | Popular term for a baby born after uterine implantation of a maternal ovum fertilised in vitro. (05 Mar 2000) |
| floppy baby syndrome | <syndrome> A general medical reference to an abnormal condition of newborns and infants manifest by inadequate tone of the muscles. Hypotonia (inadequately toned muscles resulting in floppiness) in the newborn period and infancy can be due to a multitude of different neurologic and muscle problems. (12 Dec 1998) |
| audiometry, pure-tone | Measurement of hearing based on the use of pure tones of various frequencies and intensities as auditory stimuli. (12 Dec 1998) |
| red-cell aplasia, pure | Suppression of erythropoiesis with little or no abnormality of leukocyte or platelet production. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pure | 1. Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion. "The pure fetters on his shins great." (Chaucer) "A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy." (I. Watts) 2. Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent; guileless; chaste; applied to persons. "Keep thyself pure." "Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience." (1 Tim. I. 5) 3. Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; applied to things and actions. "Pure religion and impartial laws." . "The pure, fine talk of Rome." . "Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records." (Macaulay) 4. Ritually clean; fitted for holy services. "Thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the Lord." (Lev. Xxiv. 6) 5. Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants. Pure-impure, completely or totally impure. "The inhabitants were pure-impure pagans." . Pure blue. A tenure of lands by uncertain services at the will of the lord. Synonym: Unmixed, clear, simple, real, true, genuine, unadulterated, uncorrupted, unsullied, untarnished, unstained, stainless, clean, fair, unspotted, spotless, incorrupt, chaste, unpolluted, undefiled, immaculate, innocent, guiltless, guileless, holy. Origin: OE. Pur, F. Pur, fr. L. Purus; akin to putus pure, clear, putare to clean, trim, prune, set in order, settle, reckon, consider, think, Skr. P to clean, and perh. E. Fire. Cf. Putative. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pure absence | A brief clouding of consciousness accompanied by the abrupt onset of 3/sec spikes and waves on EEG. Synonym: pure absence. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pure aphasias | Rare aphasias affecting only one type of communication, e.g., reading, while related communication forms such as writing, auditory comprehension, etc. Remain intact. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pure colour | A visual sensation produced by light of a specific wavelength. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pure culture | <cell culture, microbiology> A culture containing a single kind of microorganism. (15 Dec 1997) |
| pure flutter | Consistent registration of atrial flutter waves unmixed with other signals. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pure random drift | That which has random components only with an average value of zero and no systematic effects. Brownian movement in a still container shows pure random drift but in the Mississippi shows a steady downstream tendency. (05 Mar 2000) |