| BCB | blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier; brilliant cresyl blue |
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| CFVS | cerebrospinal fluid flow void sign |
| CSF | cancer family syndrome; cerebrospinal fluid; cold stability factor; colony-stimulating factor; coron... |
| CSFH | cerebrospinal fluid hypotension |
| CSFP | cerebrospinal fluid pressure |
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| electronic cell counter | <apparatus, haematology> An automatic blood cell counter in which cells passing through an aperture alter resistance and are counted as voltage pulses, or in which cells passing through a flow cell deflect light. Some types of counter are capable of multiple simultaneous measurements on each blood sample; e.g., leukocyte count, red cell count, haemoglobin, haematocrit, and red cell indices. (21 Jun 2000) |
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| electronic number | <chemistry> The number of electrons in the outermost orbit (valence shell) of an element. (05 Mar 2000) |
| electronic pacemaker | An electric device that can substitute for the normal cardiac pacemaker, controlling the heart's rhythm by artificial electric discharges. Synonym: electronic pacemaker. (05 Mar 2000) |
| electronic pacemaker load | The impedance to the output, the standard load being 500 ohms resistance ± 1%. (05 Mar 2000) |
| electronic potential | <chemistry, physiology> The measure (in volts) of electron pressure. A measure of the difference in electron concentrations between two compartments, such as either side of a cell membrane. (09 Oct 1997) |
| cerebrospinal | <anatomy> Pertaining to the brain and spinal cord. (18 Nov 1997) |
| cerebrospinal axis | The central nervous system; the brain and spinal cord. Synonym: encephalomyelonic axis, neural axis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cerebrospinal fever | An acute infectious disease affecting children and young adults, caused by Neisseria meningitidis; characterised by nasopharyngeal catarrh, headache, vomiting, convulsions, stiffness in the neck (nuchal rigidity), photophobia, constipation, cutaneous hyperesthesia, a purpuric or herpetic eruption, and the presence of Kernig's sign. Fulminant form may cause Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome. Synonym: cerebrospinal fever, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cerebrospinal index | The figure obtained by multiplying the pressure of the cerebrospinal fluid, after fluid has been withdrawn by spinal puncture, by the quantity of fluid withdrawn and then dividing by the original pressure. Synonym: cephalorrhachidian index. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cerebrospinal meningitis | <microbiology, neurology> Inflammation of the meninges. When it affects the dura mater, the disease is termed pachymeningitis, when the arachnoid and pia mater are involved, it is called leptomeningitis or meningitis proper. See also: aseptic meningitis. Origin: Gr. Meninx = membrane (21 Jun 1999) |
| cerebrospinal nematodiasis | Invasion of the central nervous system by wandering nematode larvae; e.g., Setaria species in horses, Angiostrongylus cantonensis in rats and humans. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cerebrospinal otorrhoea | Discharge of cerebrospinal fluid through the external auditory meatus or through the eustachian tube into the nasopharynx. (12 Dec 1998) |
| cerebrospinal pressure | The pressure of the cerebrospinal fluid, normally 100 to 150 mm of water, relative to the ambient atmospheric pressure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cerebrospinal rhinorrhoea | Discharge of cerebrospinal fluid through the nose. (12 Dec 1998) |
| cerebrospinal system | The combined central nervous system and peripheral nervous system. (05 Mar 2000) |