| CFVS | cerebrospinal fluid flow void sign |
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| DTP | diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis [vaccine]; distal tingling on percussion; Tinel's sign |
| NSR | nasal septal reconstruction; nonspecific reaction; normal sinus rhythm; no sign of recurrence; not s... |
| NSR/M | no sign of recurrence or metastases |
| Rom | Romberg [sign] |
| dinner pad | A pad of moderate thickness placed over the pit of the stomach before the application of a plaster jacket; after the plaster has set the pad is removed, leaving space for varying degrees of abdominal distention. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Imlach's fat-pad | Fat surrounding the round ligament of the uterus in the inguinal canal. (05 Mar 2000) |
| infrapatellar fat-pad | The fatty mass that occupies the area between the patellar ligament and the infrapatellar synovial fold of the knee joint. Synonym: corpus adiposum infrapatellare, infrapatellar fat body. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ischiorectal fat-pad | The fat within the ischiorectal fossa. Synonym: corpus adiposum fossae ischiorectalis, fat body of ischiorectal fossa. (05 Mar 2000) |
| orbital fat-pad | The mass of fat contained in the orbit that contributes to the support of the eyeball. Synonym: corpus adiposum orbitae, fat body of orbit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fat-pad | An accumulation of somewhat encapsulated adipose tissue. Synonym: corpus adiposum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| laparotomy pad | A pad made from several layers of gauze folded into a rectangular shape; used as a sponge, for packing off the viscera in abdominal operations, and in other ways. Synonym: abdominal pad. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Aaron's sign | <clinical sign> In acute appendicitis, a referred pain or feeling of distress in the epigastrium or precordial region on continuous firm pressure over McBurney's point. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Abadie's sign of tabes dorsalis | Insensibility to pressure over the tendo achillis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Abrahams' sign | <clinical sign> An obsolete sign: Rales and other adventitious sounds, changes in the respiratory murmurs, and increase in the whispered sound can be heard on auscultation over the acromial end of the clavicle some time before they become audible at the apex; heard primarily in pulmonary tuberculosis affecting the apical portion of the lung, a dull-flat note, i.e., one between the normal dullness at the right apex and absolute flatness, heard on percussion in that region, indicating progress from incipient to advanced tuberculosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| accessory sign | <clinical sign> A finding frequently but not consistently present in a disease. Synonym: assident sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Allis' sign | <clinical sign> In fracture of the neck of the femur, the trochanter rides up, relaxing the fascia lata, so that the finger can be sunk deeply between the great trochanter and the iliac crest. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Amoss' sign | <clinical sign> In painful flexion of the spine, it is necessary to support a sitting position by extending the arms behind the torso with the weight placed on the hands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Anghelescu's sign | <clinical sign> In vertebral tuberculosis, painful or impossible flexion of the spine when the patient attempts to rest weight on the heels and occiput. (05 Mar 2000) |
| antecedent sign | <clinical sign> A sign that appears during the prodrome of a disease. Synonym: antecedent sign. (05 Mar 2000) |