| AGV | aniline gentian violet |
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| ASF | African swine fever; aniline-sulfur-formaldehyde [resin] |
| BC/BS | Blue Cross/Blue Shield [plan] |
| BCBSA | Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association |
| BCP | basic calcium phosphate; birth control pill; blue cone pigment; Blue Cross Plan; bromcresol purple |
Zeune's law 맹인의 수는 적도에 가까운 열대지방에서 증가한다.
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| Prussian blue stain | <technique> A stain employing acid potassium ferrocyanide to demonstrate iron, as in siderocytes. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Kluver-Barrera Luxol fast blue stain | <technique> In combination with cresyl violet, a stain useful for demonstrating myelin and Nissl substance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Lillie's sulfuric acid Nile blue stain | <technique> A technique for showing fatty acids when present in high concentrations. (05 Mar 2000) |
| aniline | <chemistry> An organic base belonging to the phenylamines. It may be regarded as ammonia in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the radical phenyl. It is a colourless, oily liquid, originally obtained from indigo by distillation, but now largely manufactured from coal tar or nitrobenzene as a base from which many brilliant dyes are made. See: Anil. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| aniline fuchsin | A mixture of aniline and basic fuchsin in 30% ethanol with a trace of phenol, as in Goodpasture's stain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| aniline hydroxylase | <enzyme> A drug-metabolizing, cytochrome p-450 enzyme which catalyses the hydroxylation of aniline to hydroxyaniline in the presence of reduced flavoprotein and molecular oxygen. Registry number: EC 1.14.14.- (12 Dec 1998) |
| aniline mustard | <chemical> N,n-bis(2-chloroethyl)aniline. Alkylating anti-neoplastic agent effective in some mouse tumours, but less useful in man. Pharmacological action: antineoplastic agent, alkylating. Chemical name: Benzenamine, N,N-bis(2-chloroethyl)- (12 Dec 1998) |
| aniline oxygenase | <enzyme> Converts substituted anilines to the corresponding catechols Registry number: EC 1.14.99.- (26 Jun 1999) |
| gentian aniline water | Gentian violet with saturated aniline water, a more effective stain than simple gentian violet. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mallory 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) |
| Mallory, Frank | <person> U.S. Pathologist, 1862-1941. See: Mallory bodies, picro-Mallory trichrome stain. See entries under stain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mallory, G Kenneth | <person> U.S. Pathologist, *1926. See: Mallory-Weiss lesion, Mallory-Weiss syndrome, Mallory-Weiss tear. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mallory-Weiss lesion | Laceration of the gastric cardia, as seen in the Mallory-Weiss syndrome. Synonym: Mallory-Weiss tear. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mallory-weiss syndrome | <syndrome> Mucosal gastric tear, only 10% are purely oesophageal: most are at GE junction or proximal stomach, M greater than F, associated with retching, EtOH, massive haematemesis, abdominal pain, Diagnosis: endoscopy, Treatment: IA vasopressin see: oesophageal trauma (12 Dec 1998) |
| mallory-weiss tear | Lacerations in the oesophageal mucosa that occur close to ot at the junction of the oesophagus and the stomach. Mallory-Weiss tears occur as the result of forceful vomiting or coughing. Symptoms include vomiting blood. (27 Sep 1997) |