| DRQ | discomfort relief quotient |
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| RMUI | relief medication unit index |
| SRD | service-related disability; Society for the Relief of Distress; Society for the Right to Die; sodium... |
| UNDRO | United Nations Disaster Relief Organization |
| WMR | work metabolic rate; World Medical Relief |
| night vision | Vision when the eye is dark-adapted. See: dark adaptation, dark-adapted eye. Synonym: night vision, rod vision, scotopia, twilight vision. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Acosta, Joseph de | <person> Spanish Jesuit missionary, 1539-1600. See: Acosta's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Arneth, Joseph | <person> German physician, 1873-1955. See: Arneth classification, Arneth count, Arneth formula, Arneth index, Arneth stages. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Aub, Joseph | <person> U.S. Physician, 1890-1973. See: Aub-DuBois table. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Babinski, Joseph | <person> French neurologist, 1857-1932. See: Babinski's phenomenon, Babinski's sign, Babinski reflex, Babinski's syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Beau, Joseph | <person> French physician, 1806-1865. See: Beau's lines. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bertin, Exupere Joseph | <person> French anatomist, 1712-1781. See: Bertin's bones, Bertin's columns, Bertin's ligament, Bertin's ossicles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Machado-Joseph | A rare form of hereditary ataxia, characterised by onset in early adult life of progressive, spinocerebellar and extrapyramidal disease with external ophthalmoplegia, rigidity dystonia symptoms, and, often, peripheral amyotrophy; found predominantly in people of Azorean ancestry; autosomal dominant inheritance. Synonym: Azorean disease, Portuguese-Azorean disease. Origin: Surnames of two families studied in major descriptions of the disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| machado-joseph disease | A progressive degenerative disease of the central nervous system occurring in portuguese-azorean families, having a variety of forms and inherited as an autosomal dominant trait. There are four major types: type I: with pyramidal and extrapyramidal deficits; type II: with cerebellar, pyramidal and extrapyramidal deficits; type III: with cerebellar deficits and distal sensorimotor neuropathy; type IV: with parkinsonism and distal sensory neuropathy. It was originally reported in two portuguese-azorean families in massachusettes (machado), then in another portuguese family (thomas), and later in a third family in california (joseph, who settled there in 1845). It has been reported also in japanese families. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Pancoast, Joseph | <person> U.S. Surgeon, 1805-1882. See: Pancoast's suture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Paneth, Joseph | <person> A Physiologist who held Chairs in the Universities of Breslau and Vienna. Paneth's Cells - "cellules etroites" of the mucosa of the small intestine. Lived: 1857-1890. B. Vienna, Oct 6th, 1857, d. Vienna, Jan 4th, 1890. (05 Dec 1998) |
| Gay-Lussac, Joseph | <person> French naturalist, 1778-1850. See: Gay-Lussac's equation, Gay-Lussac's law. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ransohoff, Joseph | <person> U.S. Surgeon, 1853-1921. See: Ransohoff's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Recamier, Joseph | <person> French gynecologist, 1774-1852. See: Recamier's operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gerlach, Joseph | <person> German anatomist, 1820-1896. See: Gerlach's annular tendon, Gerlach's tonsil, valve of vermiform appendix, Gerlach's valvula. (05 Mar 2000) |