| KT | kidney transplant, kidney transplantation |
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| PKD | polycystic kidney disease; proliferative kidney disease |
| RK | rabbit kidney; radial keratotomy; reductase kinase; rhodopsin kinase; right kidney |
| STS | Serologic(al) Test(s) for Syphilis; 매독혈청시험 |
| TORCH | TOxoplasma, Rubella, Cytomegalovirus, Herpes, syphilis |
| late rickets | <pathology> A condition marked by softening of the bones (due to impaired mineralisation, with excess accumulation of osteoid), with pain, tenderness, muscular weakness, anorexia and loss of weight, resulting from deficiency of vitamin D and calcium. Origin: Gr. Malakia = softness (18 Nov 1997) |
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| late seizure | A seizure that occurs greater than one week after a craniocerebral trauma or CNS insult. (05 Mar 2000) |
| late seral species | Shade tolerant species, primarily vine maple shrubs and western red cedar and western hemlock trees. These species follow the mid seral species in natural succession. (05 Dec 1998) |
| late seral treatment | A treatment in which late seral species will be established after thinning. (05 Dec 1998) |
| late-successional forest | Forest seral stages which include mature and old- growth age classes. (05 Dec 1998) |
| late-successional reserve | An area of forest where the management objective is to protect and enhance conditions of late successional and old-growth forest ecosystems. (05 Dec 1998) |
| late systole | The interval in the cardiac rhythm immediately preceding diastole. Synonym: late systole. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardiovascular syphilis | Involvement of the cardiovascular system seen in late syphilis, usually resulting in aortitis, aneurysm formation, and aortic valvular insufficiency. (05 Mar 2000) |
| meningovascular syphilis | A rare manifestation of secondary or tertiary syphilis characterised by mild, nonsuppurative, chronic inflammation of the leptomeninges and an intracranial or spinal angiitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| congenital syphilis | <radiology> Wimberger sign, periostitis, part of ToRCHS complex (12 Dec 1998) |
| primary syphilis | The first stage of syphilis See: syphilis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hereditary syphilis | Synonym: congenital syphilis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| secondary syphilis | The second stage of syphilis See: syphilis. Synonym: mesosyphilis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nonvenereal syphilis | Syphilis caused by organisms closely related to Treponema pallidum; spread by personal, but not necessarily venereal, contact; usually acquired in childhood, most common in areas of provery and overcrowding; rare in the United States; includes yaws, pinta and bejel. Synonym: endemic syphilis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| syphilis | <microbiology> A sexually transmitted disease caused by the spirochete, Treponema pallidum. May also be acquired prenatally (foetal infection). (27 Sep 1997) |