| ABLB | alternate binaural loudness balance |
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| Alt, alt | aluminum tartrate; alternate; altitude |
| AMLB | alternate monoaural loudness balance |
| AMR | acoustic muscle reflex; activity metabolic rate; acute mitral stenosis; alopecia-mental retardation ... |
| BALB | binaural alternate loudness balance |
| child day care centres | Facilities which provide care for pre-school and school-age children. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| riley-day syndrome | <radiology> Familial dysautonomia, autosomal recessive, seen in Jewish infants, malfunction of autonomic nervous system, possibly associated with catecholamine release and beta-NGF, hypersecretion of mucous glands, XR resembles cystic fibrosis (12 Dec 1998) |
| monocular strabismus | An obsolete term for strabismus in which one eye habitually deviates. (05 Mar 2000) |
| comitant strabismus | A condition in which the degree of strabismus is the same in all directions of gaze. Synonym: concomitant strabismus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| concomitant strabismus | A condition in which the degree of strabismus is the same in all directions of gaze. Synonym: concomitant strabismus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| convergent strabismus | Cross-eyed. (27 Sep 1997) |
| cyclic strabismus | A strabismus that appears and disappears in rhythym, most frequently at 48-hour intervals. (05 Mar 2000) |
| X-strabismus | Strabismus in which exotropia is more marked when looking upward or downward than when looking straight ahead. (05 Mar 2000) |
| seven-day fever | A fever resembling dengue occurring at the end of the summer in India. Synonym: seven-day fever. Synonym: hasamiyami. (05 Mar 2000) |
| short-day plant | A plant requiring less than 12 hours of daylight in order for flowering to occur. (09 Oct 1997) |
| strabismus | <clinical sign> A deviation of the eye which the patient cannot overcome. The visual axes assume a position relative to each other different from that required by the physiological conditions. The various forms of strabismus are spoken of as tropias, their direction being indicated by the appropriate prefix, as cyclo tropia, esotropia, exotropia, hypertropia and hypotropia. Also called cast, heterotropia, manifest deviation and squint. Origin: Gr. Strabismos = a squinting (18 Nov 1997) |
| strabismus deorsum vergens | An obsolete term for vertical strabismus in which the visual axis of one eye deviates downward. (05 Mar 2000) |
| strabismus sursum vergens | An obsolete term for a vertical strabismus in which the visual axis of one eye deviates upward. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ninth-day erythema | An obsolete term for a nontoxic eruption that simulates measles or a toxic erythema, occurring usually on the ninth day of a course of medication; first described as a reaction to arsenical treatment of syphilis. Synonym: Milian's disease, Milian's erythema. (05 Mar 2000) |
| day | 1. The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine. 2. The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. Ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the sun's center over the same meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day, Sidereal day, below. 3. Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage or law for work. 4. A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time. "A man who was great among the Hellenes of his day." (Jowett (Thucyd)) "If my debtors do not keep their day, . . . I must with patience all the terms attend." (Dryden) 5. (Preceded by the) Some day in particular, as some day of contest, some anniversary, etc. "The field of Agincourt, Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus." (Shak) "His name struck fear, his conduct won the day." (Roscommon) Day is much used in self-explaining compounds; as, daybreak, daylight, workday, etc. Anniversary day. See Anniversary, Astronomical day, a period equal to the mean solar day, but beginning at noon instead of at midnight, its twenty-four hours being numbered from 1 to 24; also, the sidereal day, as that most used by astronomers. Born days. See Born. Canicular days. See Dog day. Civil day, the mean solar day, used in the ordinary reckoning of time, and among most modern nations beginning at mean midnight; its hours are usually numbered in two series, each from 1 to 12. This is the period recognised by courts as constituting a day. The Babylonians and Hindoos began their day at sunrise, the Athenians and Jews at sunset, the ancient Egyptians and Romans at midnight. Day blindness. The mean or average of all the apparent solar days of the year. One day, One of these days, at an uncertain time, usually of the future, rarely of the past; sooner or later. "Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband." . Only from day to day, without certainty of continuance; temporarily. Sidereal day, the interval between two successive transits of the first point of Aries over the same meridian. The Sidereal day is 23 h. 56 m. 4.09 s. Of mean solar time. To win the day, to gain the victory, to be successful. Week day, any day of the week except Sunday; a working day. Working day. A day when work may be legally done, in distinction from Sundays and legal holidays. The number of hours, determined by law or custom, during which a workman, hired at a stated price per day, must work to be entitled to a day's pay. Origin: OE. Day, dai, dei, AS. Daeg; akin to OS, D, Dan, & Sw. Dag, G, tag, Icel. Dagr, Goth. Dags; cf. Skr. Dah (for dhagh ?) to burn. 69. Cf. Dawn. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |