| ND | Doctor of Naturopathy; nasal deformity; natural death; Naval Dispensary; neonatal death; neoplastic ... |
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| NR | do not repeat [Lat. non repetatur]; nerve root; neural retina; neutral red; noise reduction; nonreac... |
| NV | nausea and vomiting; negative variation; neovascularization; next visit; nonveteran; normal value; n... |
| CI | cardiac index; cardiac insufficiency; cell immunity; cell inhibition; cephalic index; cerebral infar... |
| CEA | Carcino-Embryonic Antigen [HP 1825-6] ; Oncofetal Antigens ; Glycopro... |
| knock-out drops | A popular name for chloral alcoholate given with criminal intent to produce unconsciousness rapidly; it is formed by adding chloral hydrate to beer or some stronger alcoholic liquor. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Belsey Mark IV procedure | A transthoracic hiatal hernia repair that restores the lower oesophageal sphincter zone to the high pressure region below the diaphragm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Belsey Mark V procedure | A modified Belsey Mark IV procedure often employing pledgetted sutures performed for patients with hiatal hernia plus disordered oesophageal motility in whom an oesophageal myotomy is also needed. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Girdlestone procedure | Complete resection or excision of the head and neck of the femur. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Vineberg procedure | Implantation of the internal mammary artery into the myocardium to improve blood flow to the heart. (05 Mar 2000) |
| V-Y procedure | A flap in which the incision is made in a V shape and sutured in a Y shape to gain additional tissue. Synonym: V-Y plasty, V-Y procedure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gomori procedure | <procedure> Cytochemical staining procedure used to localise acid phosphatases. Depends upon the production of phosphate ions from organic phospho esters such as _ glycerophosphate. The phosphate in the presence of lead ions causes the formation of a precipitate of lead salt that is converted to the brown sulphide of lead by the action of yellow ammonium sulphide. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Chamberlain procedure | A limited left anterior thoracostomy for biopsy of the mediastinal nodes out of reach by cervical mediastinoscopy. Synonym: anterior mediastinotomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Rittenhouse-Manogian procedure | Enlarges the aortic annulus by incising the left coronary-noncoronary commissure down unto the anterior leaflet of the mitral valve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Clagett procedure | For empyema, a two-stage surgical procedure for expediting treatment of chronic empyema. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Collis-Belsey procedure | A surgical method of treating oesophageal structure by creation of a neoesophagus and a fundoplication antireflux procedure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| commando procedure | An operation for malignant tumours of the floor of the oral cavity, involving resection of portions of the mandible in continuity with the oral lesion and radical neck dissection. Synonym: commando operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| W procedure | Surgery to prevent the contracture of a straight-line scar; the edges of the wound are trimmed in the shape of a W, or a series of W's, and closed in a zig-zag manner. Synonym: W procedure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mustard procedure | Correction, at the atrial level, of haemodynamic abnormality due to transposition of the great arteries by an intraatrial baffle to direct pulmonary venous blood through the tricuspid orifice into the right ventricle and the systemic venous blood through the mitral valve into the left ventricle. Synonym: Mustard procedure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| procedure | A series of steps by which a desired result is accomplished. Origin: L. Procedere, from pro = forward, cedere = move (18 Nov 1997) |