| EOM | end of message; equal ocular movement; external otitis media; extraocular movement; extraocular musc... |
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| FM | face mask; facilities management; family medicine; feedback mechanism; fetal movement; fibromuscular... |
| NBM | no bowel movement; normal bone marrow; normal bowel movement; nothing by mouth |
| b.m. | bowel movement; 장운동 |
| FHM | Fetal Heart Movement |
| aperture, angular | <microscopy> The angle between the most divergent rays that can pass through a lens to form the image of an object. The angle subtended between the axis of a lens and the largest accepted angle of the image-forming rays. With microscope objectives the trigonometric sine of this angle is used to define numerical aperture but as measured from the axial object point. (05 Aug 1998) |
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| artery of angular gyrus | The last branch of the terminal part of the middle cerebral artery distributed to parts of the temporal parietal and occipital lobes. Synonym: arteria gyri angularis, angular artery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| supra-angular | <anatomy> See Surangular. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| active movement | Movement effected by the organism itself, unaided by external influences. (05 Mar 2000) |
| adversive movement | A rotation of the eyes, head, or trunk about the long axis of the body. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ameboid movement | The movement characteristic of leukocytes and protozoan organisms of the superclass Rhizopoda. See: streaming movement, filopodium, lobopodium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| amoeboid movement | <cell biology> Crawling movement of a cell brought about by the protrusion of pseudopods at the front of the cell (one or more may be seen in monopodial or polypodial amoebae, respectively). The pseudopods form distal anchorages with the surface. (05 Feb 1998) |
| assistive movement | In massage, a movement which the partially paralysed muscle of the patient would be unable to perform unaided but which is effected with the graduated assistance of the operator. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bennett movement | The bodily lateral movement or lateral shift of the mandible during a laterotrusive movement. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bowel movement | Defecation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| brownian movement | Erratic, nondirectional, zigzag movement observed by ultramicroscope in certain colloidal solutions and by microscope in suspensions of light particulate matter that results from the jostling or bumping of the larger particles by the molecules in the suspending medium which are regarded as being in continuous motion. Synonym: brownian motion, brownian-Zsigmondy movement, molecular movement, pedesis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| brownian-Zsigmondy movement | Erratic, nondirectional, zigzag movement observed by ultramicroscope in certain colloidal solutions and by microscope in suspensions of light particulate matter that results from the jostling or bumping of the larger particles by the molecules in the suspending medium which are regarded as being in continuous motion. Synonym: brownian motion, brownian-Zsigmondy movement, molecular movement, pedesis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Magnan's trombone movement | An involuntary forward and back movement of the tongue when it is drawn out of the mouth; may be seen in several basal ganglia disorders. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mandibular movement | Movement's of the lower jaw, all changes in position of which the mandible is capable. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rapid eye movement sleep | REM sleep, that state of deep sleep in which rapid eye movements, alert EEG pattern, and dreaming occur; several central and autonomic functions are distinctive during this state. (05 Mar 2000) |