| MEDPAR | Medical Provider Analysis and Review; Medicare Provider Analysis and Review |
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| PRC | packed red cells; peer review committee; phase response curve; plasma renin concentration; professio... |
| ECG | Electro-Cardio-Graphy(-Gram); 심전도 = EKG 1. Conducting System Structu... |
| AAPL | American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law |
| ASLM | American Society of Law and Medicine |
| reserve margin | The amount by which the utility's total electric power capacity exceeds maximum electric demand. (05 Dec 1998) |
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| inspiratory reserve volume | The extra volume of air that can be inspired with maximal effort after reaching the end of a normal, quiet inspiration. Common abbreviation is irv. (12 Dec 1998) |
| expiratory reserve volume | The extra volume of air that can be expired with maximum effort beyond the level reached at the end of a normal, quiet expiration. Common abbreviation is erv. (12 Dec 1998) |
| late-successional reserve | An area of forest where the management objective is to protect and enhance conditions of late successional and old-growth forest ecosystems. (05 Dec 1998) |
| africa, western | The geographical area of africa comprising benin, burkina faso, cote d'ivoire, gambia, ghana, guinea, guinea-bissau, liberia, mali, mauritania, niger, nigeria, senegal, sierra leone, and togo. (12 Dec 1998) |
| asia, western | The geographical designation for the countries of the middle east and the countries bangladesh, bhutan, india, nepal, pakistan, and sri lanka. (12 Dec 1998) |
| blotting, western | Identification of proteins or peptides that have been electrophoretically separated by blotting and transferred to strips of nitrocellulose paper. The blots are then detected by radiolabelled antibody probes. (12 Dec 1998) |
| blot, western | A technique in molecular biology, used to separate and identify proteins. Called a Western blot merely because it has some similarity to a Southern blot (which is named after its inventor, the British biologist M.E. Southern). (12 Dec 1998) |
| western | 1. Of or pertaining to the west; situated in the west, or in the region nearly in the direction of west; being in that quarter where the sun sets; as, the western shore of France; the western ocean. "Far o'er the glowing western main." (Keble) 2. Moving toward the west; as, a ship makes a western course; coming from the west; as, a western breeze. Western Church. See Latin Church, under Latin. Western empire, the western portion of the Roman empire, as divided, by the will of Theodosius the Great, between his sons Honorius and Arcadius, a. D. 395. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| western Australia | A state in western Australia. Its capital is perth. It was first visited by the dutch in 1616 but the english took possession in 1791 and permanent colonization began in 1829. It was a penal settlement 1850-1888, became part of the colonial government in 1886, and was granted self government in 1890. (12 Dec 1998) |
| western blot | <technique> A technique similar to Southern blotting, though it is used for proteins. (09 Oct 1997) |
| Western blot analysis | A procedure in which proteins separated by electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gels are transferred (blotted) onto nitrocellulose or nylon membranes and identified by specific complexing with antibodies that are either pre-or post-tagged with a labelled secondary protein. See: immunoblot. Synonym: Western blot, Western blotting. Origin: coined to distinguish it from eponymic Southern blot a. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Western blotting | <molecular biology> An electroblotting method in which proteins are transferred from a gel to a thin, rigid support (nitrocellulose) and detected by binding of labelled antibody. See: blots. (18 Nov 1997) |
| western equine encephalomyelitis | An equine encephalomyelitis found in the western U.S. And parts of South America, transmitted by mosquitoes and caused by the western equine encephalomyelitis virus (a species of Alphavirus in the family Togaviridae); the infection is similar to but milder than eastern equine encephalomyelitis in man and is, as a rule, inapparent, but some cases with central nervous system involvement have been fatal. (05 Mar 2000) |
| western equine encephalomyelitis virus | A group A arbovirus of the genus Alphavirus, family Togaviridae, occurring in the western United States and parts of South America; it occurs naturally, usually as a symptomless infection in birds, but causes western equine encephalomyelitis in horses and humans following transfer by the bites of mosquitoes, chiefly Culex tarsalis. Synonym: WEE virus. (05 Mar 2000) |