| ACH | acetylcholine; achalasia; active chronic hepatitis; adrenocortical hormone; amyotrophic cerebellar h... |
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| ENS | enteral nutritional support; ethylnorsuprarenin |
| FNC | fatty nutritional cirrhosis |
| nem | nutritional milk unit [Ger. Nahrungs Einheit Milch] |
| NIA | National Institute on Aging; nephelometric inhibition assay; niacin; no information available; Nutri... |
| nutritional polyneuropathy | A disorder of multiple peripheral nerves, noted in beriberi, chronic alcoholism, and other clinical states, resulting from thiamin deficiency. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| nutritional status | State of the body in relation to the consumption and utilization of nutrients. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nutritional support | The administration of nutrients for assimilation and utilization by a patient by means other than normal eating. It does not include fluid therapy which normalises body fluids to restore water-electrolyte balance. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nutritional type cerebellar atrophy | A restricted type of cerebellar cortical degeneration, affecting particularly the Purkinje cells of the anterior and superior vermis; probably caused by thiamin deficiency; most frequently seen in chronic alcoholics and then called alcoholic cerebellar degeneration. (05 Mar 2000) |