| ASDC | Association of Sleep Disorders Centers; 미국 수면 질환 센터 협회 |
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| DIMS | Disorders of Initiating & Maintaining Sleep; 입면장애 및 수면 유지 장애; 불면증 |
| ASDC | American Society of Dentistry for Children; Association of Sleep Disorders Centers |
| eIF | erythrocyte initiation factor |
| IF | idiopathic fibroplasia; idiopathic flushing; immersion foot; immunofluorescence; indirect fluorescen... |
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| feeding and eating disorders of childhood | Mental disorders related to feeding and eating that are usually diagnosed in infancy or early childhood. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| air quality maintenance area | Specific populated area where air quality is a problem for one or more pollutants (Portland-Vancouver, Salem, Eugene-Springfield, Medford-Ashland). (05 Dec 1998) |
| maintenance | The upkeep of property or equipment. (12 Dec 1998) |
| maintenance dose | In chemotherapy, systematic dosage at a level that maintains protection against exacerbation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| maintenance drug therapy | In chemotherapy, systematic dosage at a level that maintains protection against exacerbation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| maintenance medication | Medication taken to stabilise an illness or symptoms of illness. (05 Mar 2000) |
| maintenance therapy | Extended drug therapy, usually at a diminished dose, administered after a disease has been brought under control. Maintenance therapy is utilised when a complete cure is not possible, and a disease is likely to recur if therapy is halted. (09 Oct 1997) |
| maintenance treatment | Treatment given for a period of months or years to maintain remission and eliminate any residual leukaemic cells in the body, usually for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. (13 Nov 1997) |
| corpus luteum maintenance | Physiologic and biochemical factors that maintain an actively functioning corpus luteum. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pregnancy maintenance | Physiological mechanisms that sustain the state of pregnancy. (12 Dec 1998) |
| health maintenance organization | A comprehensive prepaid system of health care with emphasis on the prevention and early detection of disease, and continuity of care.HMOs may be nonprofit or profit-making ventures, and along with PPOs and managed care plans have come to define the U.S. Health care scene. HMOs generally offer a package of services; however, the choice of physician is frequently limited to those working within the HMO. (05 Mar 2000) |
| health maintenance organizations | Organised systems for providing comprehensive prepaid health care that have five basic attributes: 1) provide care in a defined geographic area; 2) provide or ensure delivery of an agreed-upon set of basic and supplemental health maintenance and treatment services; 3) provide care to a voluntarily enrolled group of persons; 4) require their enrollees to use the services of designated providers; and 5) receive reimbursement through a predetermined, fixed, periodic prepayment made by the enrollee without regard to the degree of services provided. (12 Dec 1998) |
| rapid eye movement sleep | REM sleep, that state of deep sleep in which rapid eye movements, alert EEG pattern, and dreaming occur; several central and autonomic functions are distinctive during this state. (05 Mar 2000) |
| paradoxical sleep | A deep sleep, with a brain wave pattern more like that of waking states than of other states of sleep, which occurs during rapid eye movement sleep. (05 Mar 2000) |
| paroxysmal sleep | <neurology> A disorder of sleep associated with excessive daytime sleepiness, involuntary daytime sleep episodes, disturbed nocturnal sleep and cataplexy. Narcolepsy affects over 100,000 people in the United States and appears to have a genetic basis. Symptoms usually begin in the patients twenties. Treatment often includes the use of amphetamines and-or tricyclic antidepressants. (27 Sep 1997) |