| DFP | diastolic filling period; diisopropyl-fluorophosphate |
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| FP | false positive; family physician; family planning; family practice; family practitioner; Fanconi pan... |
| LVFP | left ventricular filling pressure |
| LVPFR | left ventricular peak filling rate |
| MCFP | mean circulating filling pressure |
| VFI | Venous Filling Index |
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| AFF | atrial filling fraction |
| TPFR | to Peak Filling Rate |
| filling | 1. That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel, etc. 2. The woof in woven fabrics. 3. Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it. Back filling. See Back. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| filling defect | Displacement of contrast medium by a space-occupying lesion in a radiographic study of a contrast-filled hollow viscus, such as a polyp on a barium enema; also applied to defects in the otherwise uniform distribution of radionuclide in an organ, such as a metastasis in the liver on a 99mTc-sulfur colloid scan. (05 Mar 2000) |
| filling defect in renal collecting system | <radiology> Common causes: transitional cell carcinoma, blood clot, lucent calculus (urate) less common causes: fungus ball, sloughed papilla, fibroepithelial polyp, invasion by hypernephroma, malakoplakia, vessel impression, metastases (12 Dec 1998) |