| CHAS | Center for Health Administration Studies |
|---|---|
| CHRS | cerebrohepatorenal syndrome; Christian syndrome |
| CMF | calcium-magnesium free; catabolite modular factor; chondromyxoid fibroma; Christian Medical Fellowsh... |
| CMS | children's medical services; Christian Medical Society; chronic myelodysplastic syndrome; chromosome... |
| HCSD | Health Care Studies Division |
| Christian's disease | histiocytosis |
|---|---|
| Christian's syndrome | histiocytosis |
| Weber-Christian disease | relapsing febrile nodular nonsuppurative panniculitis |
| hand-schueller-christian disease | <radiology> Form of histiocytosis, age 1 - 3 yrs most common, skeletal lesions similar to EG, but more numerous, adenopathy, enlarged liver and spleen, skin lesions, diabetes insipidus, exophthalmos, lung disease (12 Dec 1998) |
| hand-schueller-christian syndrome | <syndrome> Disseminated, chronic form of langerhans-cell histiocytosis. It may exhibit the classic triad of exophthalmos, diabetes insipidus, and bone destruction. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Hand-Schuller-Christian disease | A condition marked by the abnormal appearance of histiocytes (macrophages) in the blood. Lipid h., Niemann-Pick disease. Sinus h., a disorder of the lymph nodes in which the distended sinuses are completely or nearly completely, filled by histiocytes, as a result of active multiplication of the littoral cells. H. X, a generic term embracing eosinophilic granuloma, Letterer-Siwe disease and Hand-Schuller-Christian disease and indicating a shared common origin for the three entities. (16 Dec 1997) |
| Schmorl, Christian | <person> German pathologist, 1861-1932. See: Schmorl's bacillus, Schmorl's nodule, Schmorl's ferric-ferricyanide reduction stain, Schmorl's picrothionin stain, Schmorl's jaundice. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Schonbein, Christian | <person> German chemist, 1799-1868. See: Schonbein's test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Schreger, Christian | <person> German anatomist and chemist, 1768-1833. See: Schreger's lines, Hunter-Schreger bands, Hunter-Schreger lines. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Huygens, Christian | <person> Dutch physicist, 1629-1695. See: Huygens' ocular, Huygens' principle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Doppler, Christian | <person> Austrian mathematician and physicist in U.S., 1803-1853. See: Doppler echocardiography, Doppler effect, Doppler phenomenon, Doppler shift, Doppler ultrasonography. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Kjelland, Christian | <person> Norwegian obstetrician, 1871-1941. See: Kjelland's forceps. (05 Mar 2000) |
| retrospective studies | Studies used to test aetiologic hypotheses in which inferences about an exposure to putative causal factors are derived from data relating to characteristics of persons under study or to events or experiences in their past. The essential feature is that some of the persons under study have the disease or outcome of interest and their characteristics are compared with those of unaffected persons. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pharmalogical studies | <pharmacology> Studies to assess the potential harmful or other effects of drugs (16 Dec 1997) |
| clinical studies | <pharmacology> Human studies that are designed to measure the safety, efficacy, and appropriate dosage of a new drug or biological. Clinical studies routinely involve the use of a placebo group that is given an inactive substance that looks like the test product. (14 Nov 1997) |