| ATE | acute toxic encephalopathy; adipose tissue extract; autologous tumor extract |
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| CE | California encephalitis; cardiac enlargement; cardioesophageal; carotid endarterectomy; catamenial e... |
| CAM | calf aortic microsome; cell adhesion molecule; cell-associating molecule; chorioallantoic membrane; ... |
| CEHC | calf embryonic heart cell |
| CF | calcaneal fibular [ligament]; calcium leucovorin; calf blood flow; calibration factor; cancer-free; ... |
| calf | Synonym: sural region. 2. A young bovine animal, male or female. Origin: Gael. Kalpa (05 Mar 2000) |
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| calf-bone | Synonym: fibula. 2. Bone from a calf (young cow) used in orthopaedic reconstruction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| calf diphtheria | A necrotic oropharyngolaryngitis of calves associated with Fusobacterium necrophorum infection that may spread to the lungs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| calf pump | Muscular activity of calf that promotes venous flow towards the heart. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gnome's calf | An obsolete term denoting the very full rounded calf occurring in pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy affecting the gastrocnemius muscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ribonuclease h, calf thymus | <enzyme> A ribonuclease that specifically cleaves the RNA moiety of RNA:DNA hybrids. It has been isolated from a wide variety of prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms (particularly calf thymus) as well as retroviruses. Registry number: EC 3.1.26.4 (12 Dec 1998) |
| sea calf | <zoology> The common seal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Nebraska calf scours virus | The bovine rotavirus. See: rotavirus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| neonatal calf diarrhoea virus | One of two virus's causing neonatal calf diarrhoea; a reovirus-like virus is associated with disease in newborn calves, and a coronavirus is associated with disease in calves over 5 days of age. (05 Mar 2000) |
| triceps muscle of calf | <anatomy> The two bellies of the gastrocnemius and soleus considered as one muscle. Synonym: musculus triceps surae, triceps muscle of calf. (05 Mar 2000) |
| foetal calf serum | <cell culture> The serum originating from embryonic calves and an expensive component of standard culture media for many types of animal tissue cells. It is used as an important part of growth media for promoting the growth of tissue cultures. It provides a source of growth hormones and other growth factors. (11 Nov 1997) |
| football calf | An obsolete term used to describe the doughy sensation elicited on palpation of the calf when muscle necrosis has developed as a consequence of acute ischemia produced by acute arterial embolism. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lateral cutaneous nerve of calf | <anatomy, nerve> It arises from the common peroneal in the popliteal space and is distributed to the skin of the inferolateral surface of the calf. Synonym: nervus cutaneus surae lateralis, lateral cutaneous nerve of calf. (05 Mar 2000) |
| accessory spleen | <radiology> Found in 10% of normal population, clinically important in: haemolytic anaemia, ITP, hereditary spherocytosis, may cause relapse s/p splenectomy, none found larger than 2.5 cm (12 Dec 1998) |
| gastric surface of spleen | The surface of the spleen in contact with the stomach. Synonym: facies gastrica splenis. (05 Mar 2000) |