| PAF | paroxysmal atrial fibrillation; peroxisomal assembly factor; phosphodiesterase-activating factor; pl... |
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| SF | Sabin-Feldman [test]; safety factor; salt-free; scarlet fever; screen film; seminal fluid; serosal f... |
| TF | free thyroxine; tactile fremitus; tail flick [reflex]; temperature factor; testicular feminization; ... |
| ABCDES | abnormal alignment, bones-periarticular osteoporosis, cartilage-joint space loss, deformities, margi... |
| SI | International System of Units [Fr. le Systeme International d'Unites]; sacroiliac; saline infusion; ... |
| Factor Xa | Factor X |
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| GM-CSF | Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor , granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor |
| G-CSF | Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor , Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor |
| HB-EGF | Heparin binding epidermal growth factor-like growth factor |
| HB-EGF | Heparin-binding epidermal growth factor (EGF)-like growth factor |
| septic bursitis. Bypass | An operation in which the surgeon creates a new pathway for the movement of substances in the body. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| septic endocarditis | Acute bacterial endocarditis, usually secondary to suppuration elsewhere and running a fulminating course. Synonym: septic endocarditis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| septic fever | Systemic disease associated with the presence and persistence of pathogenic microorganisms or their toxins in the blood. Synonym: blood poisoning. See: bacteraemia. Origin: Gr. Haima = blood (11 Jan 1998) |
| septic infarct | An area of necrosis resulting from vascular obstruction due to emboli comprised of clumps of bacteria or infected material. (05 Mar 2000) |
| septic intoxication | Systemic disease associated with the presence and persistence of pathogenic microorganisms or their toxins in the blood. Synonym: blood poisoning. See: bacteraemia. Origin: Gr. Haima = blood (11 Jan 1998) |
| septic phlebitis | Inflammation of a vein due to bacterial infection. (05 Mar 2000) |
| septic pneumonia | Any pneumonia associated with the formation of pus and destruction of pulmonary tissue; abscess formation may occur. Synonym: septic pneumonia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| septic retinitis | Purulent or septic retinitis resulting from the arrest of septic emboli in the retinal vessels. Synonym: purulent retinitis, septic retinitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| septic shock | <microbiology> Condition of clinical shock caused by endotoxin in the blood. A serious complication of severe burns and abdominal wounds, frequently fatal. Part of the problem seems to be due to increased leucocyte adhesiveness, which leads to massive sequestration of neutrophils in the lung, increased vascular permeability and acute respiratory distress syndrome. (11 Jan 1998) |
| septic wound | A wound that has become infected. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shock, septic | Shock due to circulatory insufficiency caused most commonly by gram-negative bacteraemia. It is less often the result of the persistent presence of other micro-organisms in the blood (fungaemia, viraemia); in rare instances, it is caused by gram-positive organisms, but with different symptomatology. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Aaron's sign | <clinical sign> In acute appendicitis, a referred pain or feeling of distress in the epigastrium or precordial region on continuous firm pressure over McBurney's point. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Abadie's sign of tabes dorsalis | Insensibility to pressure over the tendo achillis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Abrahams' sign | <clinical sign> An obsolete sign: Rales and other adventitious sounds, changes in the respiratory murmurs, and increase in the whispered sound can be heard on auscultation over the acromial end of the clavicle some time before they become audible at the apex; heard primarily in pulmonary tuberculosis affecting the apical portion of the lung, a dull-flat note, i.e., one between the normal dullness at the right apex and absolute flatness, heard on percussion in that region, indicating progress from incipient to advanced tuberculosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| accessory sign | <clinical sign> A finding frequently but not consistently present in a disease. Synonym: assident sign. (05 Mar 2000) |