| FA | false aneurysm; Families Anonymous; Fanconi anemia; far advanced; fatty acid; febrile antigen; femor... |
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| FN | false negative; fibronectin; fluoride number |
| Fneg | false negative |
| FNF | false-negative fraction; femoral neck fracture |
| FNT | false neurochemical transmitter; farnesyltransferase |
| false diphtheria | 1. One of a group of local infections suggesting diphtheria, but caused by microorganisms other than Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Synonym: Epstein's disease, false diphtheria, pseudodiphtheria. 2. Any microorganism resembling Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Origin: diphtheria + G. Eidos, resemblance (05 Mar 2000) |
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| false diverticulum | <surgery> A diverticulum of the intestine that passes through a defect in the muscular wall of the gut and thus does not include a layer of muscle in its wall. (05 Mar 2000) |
| false dominance | Simulation by a recessive trait of the pedigree of dominant inheritance (i.e., recurrence in several generations) by repeated, and often occult, consanguineous matings. Synonym: false dominance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| false glottis | The interval between the false vocal cords or vestibular folds. Synonym: false glottis, glottis spuria, rima respiratoria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| false haematuria | A red pigmentation of urine caused by certain foods or drugs, and thus not actually haematuria. Synonym: false haematuria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| false hellebore | 1. A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar. 2. A preeminently beautiful young man; a dandy. 3. <botany> A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae, containing the pheasaut's eye (Adonis autumnalis); named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower. Origin: L, gr. Gr. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| false hermaphroditism | A condition in which the gonads are of one sex but one or more contradictions exist in the morphologic criteria of sex. Female pseudohermaphroditism is a form in which the affected individual is a genetic and gonadal female with partial masculinization. Male pseudohermaphroditism is a form in which the affected individual is a genetic and gonadal male with incomplete masculinization. (12 Dec 1998) |
| false hypertrophy | Increase in size of an organ or a part, due not to increase in size or number of the specific functional elements but to that of some other tissue, fatty or fibrous. Synonym: false hypertrophy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| false image | <ophthalmology> The image in the deviating eye in strabismus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| false joint | A pathologic entity characterised by deossification of a weight-bearing long bone, followed by bending and pathologic fracture, with inability to form normal callus leading to existence of the "false joint" that gives the condition its name. (12 Dec 1998) |
| false knots | <obstetrics> False knots of umbilical cord, local increases in length or varicosity of the umbilical vein, causing markedly apparent twisting of the cord. (05 Mar 2000) |
| false labour | <obstetrics> Contractions which do not produce cervical dilation or effacement. (05 Mar 2000) |
| false macula | <ophthalmology> An extrafoveal point of fixation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| false masturbation | <psychiatry> Rarely used term for a nervous tic consisting of a constant pulling of the penis. Synonym: false masturbation, pseudomasturbation. Origin: G. Peos, penis, + tillo, to pull out (of hair), + mania, frenzy (05 Mar 2000) |
| false membrane | <dermatology> A thick, tough fibrinous exudate on the surface of a mucous membrane or the skin, as seen in diphtheria. Synonym: croupous membrane, neomembrane, plica, pseudomembrane. (05 Mar 2000) |
| false aneurysm |
1. one in which the entire wall is injured and the blood is contained by the surrounding tissues, with eventual formation of a sac communicating with the artery (or heart); called also aneurysmal hematoma. 2. pseudoaneurysm.
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| false imprisonment |
In criminal law, kidnapping is the taking away of a person against the person's will, usually to hold the person in false imprisonment (confinement without legal authority) for ransom or in furtherance of another crime. In the terminology of the common law in many jurisdictions (according to Black's Law Dictionary), the crime of kidnapping is labelled abduction when the victim is a woman. ...
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| false labor |
Braxton Hicks' contractions, also known as false labour (British English, false labor in American English) or practice contractions, occur during the second or third trimester of pregnancy. It is a tightening of the uterine muscles for up to one minute and is thought to be an aid to the body in its preparation for birth. Not all expectant mothers have these contractions which can start as early as 20 weeks into the pregnancy. ...
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| false memory |
A false memory is a memory of an event that did not happen or is a distortion of an event that did occur as determined by externally corroborated facts. If a person remembers an event that lacks another witness or corroborative physical evidence, the validity of the memory may be questioned—but not dismissed. It might be said that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but validation has the highest priority. ...
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| false-positive |
A false positive, also called false alarm, exists when a test reports, incorrectly, that it has found a signal where none exists in reality. Detection algorithms of all kinds often create false alarms. For example, optical character recognition (OCR) software may detect an 'a' where there are only some dots that look like an a to the algorithm being used. In statistical hypothesis testing, a false positive test which rejects the null hypothesis when it is true is called a Type I error. ...
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| FALSE | plant growing in clumps with mostly basal leaves and cream or pale pink fringed flowers in several long racemes |
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| FALSE | a plant of the genus Tofieldia having linear chiefly basal leaves and small spicate flowers |
| FALSE | straggling shrub of northwestern North America having foliage with a bluish tinge and umbels of small bell-shaped flowers |
| FALSE | Eurasian herb with ample panicles of small white flowers |
| FALSE | fleshy tawny or reddish saprophytic herb resembling the Indian pipe and growing in woodland humus of eastern North America |
| FALSE | a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning |
| FALSE | twining shrub of North America having three-valved yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds |
| FALSE | resembles Pteridium aquilinum |
| FALSE | deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico |
| FALSE | tall perennial of the eastern United States having large basal leaves and white summer flowers |
| FALSE | a group of bracts simulating a calyx as in a carnation or hibiscus |
| FALSE | any of various autumn-flowering perennials having white or pink to purple flowers that resemble asters |