| FP | false positive; family physician; family planning; family practice; family practitioner; Fanconi pan... |
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| FPA | Family Planning Association; fibrinopeptide A; filter paper activity; fluorophenylalanine |
| FPM | filter paper microscopic [test]; full passive movements |
| HVPE | high-voltage paper electrophoresis |
| PC | avoirdupois weight [Lat. pondus civile]; packed cells; paper chromatography; paracortex; parent cell... |
| cigarette-paper scars | Atrophic scar's in the skin at sites of minor lacerations over the knees, shins, and elbows of persons with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Synonym: papyraceous scars. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| potassium nitrate paper | Paper impregnated with potassium nitrate that is ignited to produce fumes inhaled as treatment for asthma. Synonym: potassium nitrate paper, saltpeter paper. Occluding paper, an inked paper or ribbon interposed between natural or artificial teeth to determine tooth contacts. Synonym: articulating paper. (05 Mar 2000) |
| saltpeter paper | Paper impregnated with potassium nitrate that is ignited to produce fumes inhaled as treatment for asthma. Synonym: potassium nitrate paper, saltpeter paper. Occluding paper, an inked paper or ribbon interposed between natural or artificial teeth to determine tooth contacts. Synonym: articulating paper. (05 Mar 2000) |
| high quality filter paper | Used in paper chromatography. Synonym: high quality filter paper. Congo red paper, paper impregnated with Congo red; used as a pH indicator, changing from blue-violet at 3.0 to red at 5.0. Filter paper, an unsized paper used in pharmacy and chemistry for filtering solutions; many varieties are used for paper chromatography. (05 Mar 2000) |
| niter paper | Paper impregnated with potassium nitrate that is ignited to produce fumes inhaled as treatment for asthma. Synonym: potassium nitrate paper, saltpeter paper. Occluding paper, an inked paper or ribbon interposed between natural or artificial teeth to determine tooth contacts. Synonym: articulating paper. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nitrocellulose paper | <apparatus> Paper with a high non-specific absorbing power for biological macromolecules. Very important as a receptor in blot transfer methods. Bands are transferred from a chromatogram or electropherogram either by blotting on nitrocellulose sheets or by electrophoretic transfer. The replica can then be used for sensitive analytical detection methods. (18 Nov 1997) |
| electrophoresis, paper | Electrophoresis in which paper is used as the diffusion medium. This technique is confined almost entirely to separations of small molecules such as amino acids, peptides, and nucleotides, and relatively high voltages are nearly always used. (12 Dec 1998) |
| acid red 87 | Eosin Ys, the disodium salt of 2',4',5',7'-tetrabromofluorescein. Synonym: acid red 87, eosin yellowish. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acid red 91 | The disodium salt of 4',5'-dibromo-2',7'-dinitrofluorescein. Synonym: acid red 91, eosin I bluish. (05 Mar 2000) |
| algae, red | Algae of the division rhodophyta, in which the pigment is predominantly red; common genera are gelidium, gracilaria, and polysiphonia. (12 Dec 1998) |
| alizarin red S | Sodium alizarin sulfonate;used as a stain for calcium in bone (calcium appears red-orange, magnesium, aluminum, and barium are varying shades of red), in the determination of fluorine; as a pH indicator it changes from yellow to purple between pH 3.7 and 5.2. (05 Mar 2000) |
| American Red Cross | The national Red Cross society of the United States, established by Congress to assist in caring for the sick and wounded, serving as a communications link between members of the U.S. Armed forces and their families, conducting disaster relief and prevention programs, and furnishing other humanitarian services, the largest of which is a network of regional blood centres providing blood and blood products. (05 Mar 2000) |
| amidonaphthol red | An azo dye, C18H13N3S2Na2, used in light and fluorescence microscopy as a real acid counterstain. Synonym: azophloxin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Biebrich scarlet red | Synonym: scarlet red. Origin: Biebrich, Germany (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bizzozero's red cells | Nucleated red blood cells in human blood. (05 Mar 2000) |