| NCA | National Certification Agency; National Council on Aging; National Council on Alcoholism; neurocircu... |
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| NIA | National Institute on Aging; nephelometric inhibition assay; niacin; no information available; Nutri... |
| OSA | obstructive sleep apnea; Office of Services to the Aging; Optical Society of America; ovarian sectio... |
| PAR | participating provider; passive avoidance reaction; perennial allergic rhinitis; photosynthetically ... |
| PCA | para-chloramphetamine; parietal cell antibody; passive cutaneous anaphylaxis; patient care assistant... |
| NIA | National Institute of Aging |
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| NSAID | Non Steroid Anti-Inflammatory Drugs |
| SAARD | Slow Acting Anti-Rheumatic Drugs |
| drugs, investigational | Drugs which have received FDA approval for human testing but have yet to be approved for commercial marketing. This includes drugs used for treatment while they still are undergoing clinical trials (treatment ind). The main heading includes drugs under investigation in foreign countries. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| drugs, non-prescription | Drugs that can be sold legally without a prescription. (12 Dec 1998) |
| drugs toxic to lung | <radiology> Bleomycin, methotrexate, cytoxan, amiodarone (12 Dec 1998) |
| immunosuppressive drugs | Drugs that block the bodys ability to fight infection or foreign substances that enter the body. A person receiving an organ transplant is given these drugs to stop the body from rejecting the new organ or tissue. Cyclosporin is a commonly used immunosuppressive drug. (09 Oct 1997) |
| orphan drugs | Drugs, biologicals, and medical devices (including diagnostic in vitro tests) that may be useful in common or rare diseases but which are not considered commercially viable. Synonym: orphan drugs. (05 Mar 2000) |