| BOW | bag of waters |
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| BVM | bag-valve-mask; bronchovascular markings; Bureau of Veterinary Medicine |
| FATS | face and thigh squeeze [position for bag mask ventilation] |
| OA/BVM | oral airway/bag-valve-mask |
| PUBS | percutaneous umbilical blood sampling; purple urine bag syndrome |
| Petersen's bag | An obsolete device consisting of a rubber bag introduced into the rectum and inflated to push up the bladder to facilitate suprapubic cystotomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| colostomy bag | <surgery> A bag worn over an artifical anus to collect faeces. (05 Mar 2000) |
| contrast enema | Enema using barium or another contrast medium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Politzer bag | A pear-shaped rubber bag used for forcing air through the eustachian tube by the Politzer method. (05 Mar 2000) |
| myeloid series | The granulocytic and the erythrocytic series. (05 Mar 2000) |
| high enema | An enema instilled high up into the colon. Synonym: enteroclysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hofmeister series | <chemistry> The series of cations Magnesium, Calcium, Sr2+, Ba2+, Li+, Na+, K+, Rb+, Cs+, and of anions citrate3-, tartrate2-, SO42-, acetate-, NO3-, CIO3-, I-, CNS- (among others). Each series is arranged in order of decreasing ability to: 1) precipitate the dispersed substance of lyophilic soltions; 2) "salt out" organic substances (e.g., aniline, ethyl acetate) from aqueous solutions; or 3) inhibit the swelling of gels. These effects, among other related ones, are ascribable to the abstraction and binding of water by these ions (i.e., hydration), which also decreases in the orders given, so that (in the monovalent cation series) Li+, with the smallest crystal radius, has the largest hydrated radius, and vice versa for Cs+. Synonym: lyotropic series. (05 Mar 2000) |
| homologous series | A series of organic compounds, the succeeding members of which differ from each other by the radical CH2 (as in the fatty series). (05 Mar 2000) |
| honey-bag | <zoology> The receptacle for honey in a honeybee. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| series | 1. A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events. "During some years his life a series of triumphs." (Macaulay) 2. <biology> Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups. Sometimes a series includes several classes; sometimes only orders or families; in other cases only species. 3. <mathematics> An indefinite number of terms succeeding one another, each of which is derived from one or more of the preceding by a fixed law, called the law of the series; as, an arithmetical series; a geometrical series. Origin: L. Series, fr. Serere, sertum, to join or bind together; cf. Gr. To fasten, Skr. Sarit thread. Cf. Assert, Desert a solitude, Exert, Insert, Seraglio. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Hypaque enema | Enema with water-soluble radiographic contrast material, whether diatrizoate or other. (05 Mar 2000) |
| small bowel enema | Radiographic examination of the small intestine, by retrograde filling from the contrast-filled large bowel. (05 Mar 2000) |
| small bowel series | Radiographic examination of the small intestine following the oral administration of contrast medium, usually barium sulfate. Compare: small bowel enema. (05 Mar 2000) |
| soapsuds enema | An enema of shredded or powdered soap in warm water. (05 Mar 2000) |
| soil series | A group of soils having horizons similar in differentiating characteristics and arrangements in the soil profile, except for texture of the surface layer. (09 Oct 1997) |