| HMD | hyaline membrane disease |
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| PHM | peptide histidine methionine; peptidylglycine alpha-hydroxylating monooxygenase; posterior hyaloid m... |
| MCD | 1) Minimal Change Disease 2) Menstrual Cycle Day |
| MCL | Minimal Change Disease |
| MCN | Minimal Change Nephrotic syndrome = MCNS |
| MCD | Minimal change disease |
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| MCN | Minimal change nephropathy |
| MCNS | Minimal change nephrotic syndrome |
| NC | No Change |
| fatty change | The appearance of microscopically visible droplets of fat in the cytoplasm of cells. See: fatty degeneration. Synonym: fatty change. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| life change events | Those occurrences, including social, psychological, and environmental, which require an adjustment or effect a change in an individual's pattern of living. (12 Dec 1998) |
| alcoholic hyaline bodies | Large, poorly defined accumulations of eosinophilic material in the cytoplasm of damaged hepatic cells in certain forms of cirrhosis and marked fatty change especially due to alcoholism. Synonym: alcoholic hyalin, alcoholic hyaline bodies. (05 Mar 2000) |
| giant cell hyaline angiopathy | <pathology> An inflammatory infiltrate containing foreign body giant cells and eosinophilic material. Fragments of foreign material resembling vegetable matter may be included. Synonym: pulse granuloma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hyaline | <cell biology> Clear, transparent, granule free, as for example hyaline cartilage and the hyaline zone at the front of a moving amoeba. (18 Nov 1997) |
| hyaline bodies | Homogeneous eosinophilic inclusions in the cytoplasm of epithelial cells; in renal tubules, hyaline body's represent droplets of protein reabsorbed from the lumen. See: Mallory bodies, drusen. Synonym: fuchsin bodies. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hyaline bodies of pituitary | Accumulations of a gelatinous neurosecretory substance in the axons of the hypothalamohypophyseal tract in the posterior lobe of the hypophysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hyaline cartilage | Cartilage having a frosted glass appearance, with interstitial substance containing fine type II collagen fibres obscured by the ground substance; in adult cartilage, the cells are present in isogenous groups. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hyaline cast | A relatively transparent renal cast composed of proteinaceous material derived from disintegration of cells; seen in patients with renal disease or transiently with exercise, fever, congestive heart failure, and diuretic therapy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hyaline degeneration | A group of several degenerative processes that affect various cells and tissues, resulting in the formation of rounded masses ("droplets") or relatively broad bands of substances that are homogeneous, translucent, refractile, and moderately to deeply acidophilic; may occur in the collagen of old fibrous tissue, smooth muscle of arterioles or the uterus, and as droplets in parenchymal cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hyaline degeneration of the elastic tissue of the arterial wall | Seen during involution of the uterus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hyaline leukocyte | Old term for a monocyte, and for a mononuclear macrophage in various lesions. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hyaline membrane | The thin, clear basement membrane beneath certain epithelia. Synonym: glassy membrane. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hyaline membrane disease | <disease> A respiratory disease of the newborn. Often associated with prematurity or maternal diabetes. This disorder is characterised by a lack of pulmonary surfactant, a substance which increases pulmonary compliance and prevents collapse of the pulmonary air sacs. (27 Sep 1997) |
| hyaline membrane disease of the newborn | A disease seen especially in premature neonates with respiratory distress; characterised postmortem by atelectasis and alveolar ducts lined by an eosinophilic membrane; also associated with reduced amounts of lung surfactant. Synonym: hyaline membrane syndrome, respiratory distress syndrome of the newborn. (05 Mar 2000) |