| top | topical |
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| ODT | Occlusive Dressing Technique; 밀봉 요법 |
| ARD | absolute reaction of degeneration; acute radiation disease; acute respiratory disease; adult respira... |
| BDC | Bazex-Dupre-Christol [syndrome]; burn-dressing change |
| DC | daily census; data communication; data conversion; decrease; deep compartment; Dental Corps; deoxych... |
| PASI | Psoriasis Area Severity Index |
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| PASI | Psoriasis Area and Severity Index |
| PV | psoriasis vulgaris |
| dressing forceps | A forceps for general use in dressing wounds, removing fragments of necrosed tissue, small foreign bodies, etc. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| dry dressing | Dry gauze or other material applied to a wound. (05 Mar 2000) |
| occlusive dressing | A dressing that hermetically seals a wound. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tie-over dressing | A dressing placed over a skin graft or other sutured wound and tied on by the sutures which have been left of sufficient length for that purpose. Synonym: bolus dressing. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fixed dressing | A dressing stiffened with a substance that produces immobilization when it dries. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Lister's dressing | The first type of antiseptic dressing, one of gauze impregnated with carbolic acid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| generalised pustular psoriasis of Zambusch | An extensive exacerbation of psoriasis, with pustule formation in the normal and psoriatic skin, fever, and granulocytosis; sometimes precipitated by oral steroids. Synonym: generalised pustular psoriasis of Zambusch. A local pustular eruption of the palms and soles, occurring most commonly in a patient with psoriasis; difficult to distinguish from acrodermatitis continua. (05 Mar 2000) |
| psoriasis | <dermatology> A common chronic, squamous dermatosis, marked by exacerbations and remissions and having a polygenic inheritance pattern. The most distinctive histological findings in well developed psoriasis are Munro microabscesses and spongiform pustules. It is characterised clinically by the presence of rounded, circumscribed, erythematous, dry scaling patches of various sizes, covered by greyish white or silvery white, umbilicated and lamellar scales, which have a predilection for the extensor surfaces, nails, scalp, genitalia and lumbosacral region. Central clearing and coalescence of the lesions produce a wide variety of clinical configurations, including annular or circinate, discoid or nummular, figurate and gyrate arrangements. Origin: Gr. Psoriasis (18 Nov 1997) |
| psoriasis annularis | Psoriasis in which healing is taking place at the centre of the lesion while the process continues at the periphery, producing a ring-shaped or annular lesion. Synonym: psoriasis annularis, psoriasis annulata, psoriasis orbicularis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| psoriasis arthropica | Psoriasis associated with severe arthritis resembling rheumatoid arthritis, although serum rheumatoid factor is absent. (05 Mar 2000) |
| psoriasis circinata | Psoriasis in which healing is taking place at the centre of the lesion while the process continues at the periphery, producing a ring-shaped or annular lesion. Synonym: psoriasis annularis, psoriasis annulata, psoriasis orbicularis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| psoriasis diffusa | Diffused psoriasis, a form of psoriasis with extensive coalescence of the lesions. (05 Mar 2000) |
| psoriasis discoidea | Psoriasis in which the lesions are discrete and disklike. Synonym: psoriasis nummularis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| psoriasis geographica | Psoriasis gyrata in which the lesions suggest the coast outline on a map. (05 Mar 2000) |
| psoriasis guttata | Psoriasis occurring abruptly in round patches of small size; seen in young persons following streptococcal infections. (05 Mar 2000) |