| IRRD | Institute for Research in Rheumatic Diseases |
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| ICD | I-cell disease; immune complex disease; implantable cardioverter defibrillator; impulse-control diso... |
| CONSENSUS | Cooperative North Scandinavian Enalapril Survival Study |
| DUFSS | Duke-University of North Carolina Functional Social Support [questionnaire] |
| NACDS | North American Clinical Dermatological Society |
| SLICC/ACR | Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics/American College of Rheumatology |
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| UIHC | University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics |
| NA | North American |
| NANDA | North American Nursing Diagnoses Association |
| NAPRTCS | North American Pediatric Renal Transplant Cooperative Study |
| rheumatic chorea | A postinfectious chorea appearing several months after a streptococcal infection with subsequent rheumatic fever. The chorea typically involves the distal limbs and is associated with hypotonia and emotional lability. Improvement occurs over weeks or months and exacerbations occur without associated infection recurrence. Synonym: acute chorea, chorea minor, chorea, juvenile chorea, rheumatic chorea, Sydenham's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| rheumatic disease | See: rheumatism. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rheumatic endocarditis | Endocardial involvment as part of rheumatic heart disease, recognised clinically by valvular involvement; in the acute stage, there may be tiny fibrin vegetations along the lines of closure of the valve leaflets, with subsequent fibrous thickening and shortening of the leaflets. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rheumatic fever | <microbiology> Disease involving inflammation of joints and damage to heart valves that follows streptococcal infection and is believed to be autoimmune, i.e. Antibodies to streptococcal components cross react with host tissue antigens. (18 Nov 1997) |
| rheumatic heart disease | The most important manifestation of and sequel to rheumatic fever, i.e., any cardiac involvement in rheumatic fever. (12 Dec 1998) |
| rheumatic nodule | A small round or oval, mostly subcutaneous nodule made up chiefly of a mass of aschoff bodies and seen in cases of rheumatic fever. It is differentiated from the rheumatoid nodule which appears in rheumatoid arthritis, most frequently over bony prominences. (12 Dec 1998) |
| rheumatic pericarditis | Fibrinous pericarditis occurring in acute rheumatic fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rheumatic pneumonia | Pneumonia rarely occurring in severe acute rheumatic fever, even when the disease was common; consolidation occurs, the lungs being of a rubbery consistency, with fibrin exudate and small haemorrhages, as well as oedema from left ventrical failure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rheumatic tetany | An acute epidemic form of tetany, of several weeks' duration, occurring chiefly in winter. Synonym: epidemic tetany. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rheumatic torticollis | Stiff neck due to cervical or neck myositis, chiefly of the sternocleidomastoid, occurring especially in children. Synonym: rheumatic torticollis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rheumatic valvulitis | Valvulitis characterised in the acute stage by small fibrin vegetations along the lines of closure and by Aschoff bodies in the cusps; in the chronic stage, it is characterised by scarring, commissural adhesion, and stenosis and/or regurgitation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acoustic nerve diseases | Diseases of the eighth cranial nerve. These include vestibular neuronitis, cochlear neuritis and acoustic neuroma. (12 Dec 1998) |
| adaptation diseases | Disease's falling theoretically into Selye's concept of the general-adaptation syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| adnexal diseases | Diseases of the uterine appendages: the ovaries, uterine tubes, and ligaments of the uterus. (12 Dec 1998) |
| agricultural workers' diseases | Diseases in persons engaged in cultivating and tilling soil, growing plants, harvesting crops, raising livestock, or otherwise engaged in husbandry and farming. The diseases are not restricted to farmers in the sense of those who perform conventional farm chores: the heading applies also to those engaged in the individual activities named above, as in those only gathering harvest or in those only dusting crops. (12 Dec 1998) |