| ACLS | advanced cardiac life support; Assessment of Children's Language Comprehension |
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| AEST | aeromedical evacuation support team |
| ALS | acute lateral sclerosis; advanced life support; afferent loop syndrome; amyotrophic lateral sclerosi... |
| ARIS | auto-regulated inspiratory support |
| ATLS | acute tumor lysis syndrome; advanced trauma life support |
| support medium | The material in which separation takes place, as in separation of components in electrophoresis. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| training support | Financial support for training including both student stipends and loans and training grants to institutions. (12 Dec 1998) |
| financial support | The provision of monetary resources including money or capital and credit; obtaining or furnishing money or capital for a purchase or enterprise and the funds so obtained. (12 Dec 1998) |
| life support care | Care provided patients requiring extraordinary therapeutic measures in order to sustain and prolong life. (12 Dec 1998) |
| life support systems | Systems that provide all or most of the items necessary for maintaining life and health. Provisions are made for the supplying of oxygen, food, water, temperature and pressure control, disposition of carbon dioxide and body waste. The milieu may be a spacecraft, a submarine, or the surface of the moon. In medical care, usually under hospital conditions, life support care is available. (12 Dec 1998) |
| band-shaped keratopathy | A horizontal, gray, interpalpebral opacity of the cornea that begins at the periphery and progresses centrally; occurs in hypercalcaemia, chronic iridocyclitis, and Still's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bean-shaped plasma | <radiobiology> A toroidal plasma indented on the inboard side (the side with the donut hole), that results in additional stability to ballooning modes. Moderate indentation may provide access to the second-stability region (high beta). (13 Nov 1997) |
| bell-shaped crown | A crown of a tooth with an exaggerated occlusogingival contour; human deciduous molars typify the bell-shaped crown. (05 Mar 2000) |
| boat-shaped | <botany> See Cymbiform. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| boat-shaped abdomen | A condition in which the anterior abdominal wall is sunken and presents a concave rather than a convex contour. Synonym: boat-shaped abdomen, navicular abdomen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bristle-shaped | Resembling a bristle in form; as, a bristle-shaped leaf. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bullet shaped vertebrae | <radiology> Differential diagnosis: Morquio disease, achondroplasia, Hurler disease (12 Dec 1998) |
| pear-shaped area | A cushioned mass of tissue, frequently pear-shaped, located on the alveolar process of the mandible behind the area of the last natural molar tooth. Synonym: pear-shaped area. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wedge-shaped | 1. Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform. 2. <botany> Broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down to the base; as, a wedge-shaped leaf. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wedge-shaped fasciculus | The larger lateral subdivision of the posterior funiculus. Synonym: fasciculus cuneatus, Burdach's column, Burdach's fasciculus, Burdach's tract, cuneate funiculus, wedge-shaped fasciculus. (05 Mar 2000) |