| ORN | operating room nurse; orthopedic nurse |
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| PN | papillary necrosis; parenteral nutrition; penicillin; perceived noise; percussion note; periarteriti... |
| VN | vesical neck; vestibular nucleus; virus neutralization; visceral nucleus; visiting nurse; vitronecti... |
| ICD | I-cell disease; immune complex disease; implantable cardioverter defibrillator; impulse-control diso... |
| IPA | immunoperoxidase assay; incontinentia pigmenti achromians; independent physician or practice associa... |
| Leiter International Performance Scale | A nonverbal (performance) test for measuring intelligence which contains norms for each age between 2 and 18; originally developed as a method of assessing the comparative intellectual abilities of Caucasian, Chinese, and Japanese children, but now occasionally used for assessing slow learners and those who are blind, deaf, or verbally handicapped. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Bohr, Christian | <person> Danish physiologist, 1855-1911. See: Bohr effect, Bohr's equation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Braune, Christian | <person> German anatomist, 1831-1892. See: Braune's canal, Braune's muscle, Braune's valve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Voigt, Christian | <person> Austrian anatomist, 1809-1890. See: Voigt's lines. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Roller, Christian | <person> German neurologist and psychiatrist, 1844-1978. See: Roller's nucleus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Christian, Henry | <person> U.S. Internist, 1876-1951. See: Christian's disease, Christian's syndrome, Hand-Schuller-Christian disease, Weber-Christian disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| christian science | A religion discovered by mary baker eddy in 1866 that was organised under the official name of the church of christ, scientist, that derives its teachings from the scriptures as understood by its adherents, and that includes a practice of spiritual healing based upon the teaching that cause and effect are mental, and that sin, sickness, and death will be destroyed by a full understanding of the divine principle of jesus' teaching and healing. (webster, 3d ed) (12 Dec 1998) |
| Christian's disease | histiocytosis |
| Christian's syndrome | histiocytosis |
| Weber-Christian disease | relapsing febrile nodular nonsuppurative panniculitis |
| hand-schueller-christian disease | <radiology> Form of histiocytosis, age 1 - 3 yrs most common, skeletal lesions similar to EG, but more numerous, adenopathy, enlarged liver and spleen, skin lesions, diabetes insipidus, exophthalmos, lung disease (12 Dec 1998) |
| hand-schueller-christian syndrome | <syndrome> Disseminated, chronic form of langerhans-cell histiocytosis. It may exhibit the classic triad of exophthalmos, diabetes insipidus, and bone destruction. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Hand-Schuller-Christian disease | A condition marked by the abnormal appearance of histiocytes (macrophages) in the blood. Lipid h., Niemann-Pick disease. Sinus h., a disorder of the lymph nodes in which the distended sinuses are completely or nearly completely, filled by histiocytes, as a result of active multiplication of the littoral cells. H. X, a generic term embracing eosinophilic granuloma, Letterer-Siwe disease and Hand-Schuller-Christian disease and indicating a shared common origin for the three entities. (16 Dec 1997) |
| Schmorl, Christian | <person> German pathologist, 1861-1932. See: Schmorl's bacillus, Schmorl's nodule, Schmorl's ferric-ferricyanide reduction stain, Schmorl's picrothionin stain, Schmorl's jaundice. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Schonbein, Christian | <person> German chemist, 1799-1868. See: Schonbein's test. (05 Mar 2000) |