| BPV | Benign Positional Vertigo |
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| CEA | Carcino-Embryonic Antigen [HP 1825-6] ; Oncofetal Antigens ; Glycopro... |
| FHH | Familial Hypocalciuric Hypercalcemia = Familial Benign Hypercalcemia |
| BBD | benign breast disease |
| BBS | Barolet-Biedl syndrome; bashful bladder syndrome; benign breast syndrome; bilateral breath sounds; b... |
| dietetic albuminuria | <nephrology> The excretion of protein in the urine following the ingestion of certain foods. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| intermittent albuminuria | <nephrology> Functional albuminuria occurring at intervals, such as cyclic albuminuria or albuminuria of athletes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| orthostatic albuminuria | The appearance of albumin in the urine when the patient is erect and its disappearance when recumbent. Synonym: orthostatic proteinuria, postural proteinuria, postural albuminuria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| transient albuminuria | Albuminuria of a temporary or short-lived nature. (05 Mar 2000) |
| essential albuminuria | A collective term for types that are not the result of pathologic changes in the kidneys. Synonym: essential albuminuria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| false albuminuria | Albuminuria resulting from the presence of blood escaping somewhere in the urinary tract, of chyle, or of some other albuminous fluid, not caused by filtration of albumin from the blood through the kidneys. Synonym: false albuminuria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| febrile albuminuria | Albuminuria associated with fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| functional albuminuria | A collective term denoting types of benign albuminuria that are associated with physical exertion or other conditions in which there are physiologic changes such as during pregnancy or adolescence. Synonym: physiologic albuminuria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lordotic albuminuria | So-called on the theory that the albuminuria results from pressure due to lordosis in the lumbar spine. (05 Mar 2000) |
| benign | <oncology> Something that does not metastasise and treatment or removal is curative. Compare: malignant. Origin: L. Benignus (11 Jan 1998) |
| benign bone aneurysm | <radiology> ABC, 10 - 30 yrs, 75% before skeletal maturity, sites: long bones; also, flat bones Findings: metaphyseal if unfused, metaepiphyseal after fusion, lytic, expansile, thin, continuous rim, thin internal bony strands (12 Dec 1998) |
| benign cementoblastoma | <tumour> A benign odontogenic tumour of functional cementoblasts; it appears as a mixed radiolucent-radiopaque lesion attached to a tooth root and may cause expansion of the bone cortex or be associated with pain. Synonym: benign cementoblastoma, true cementoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes | A specific epilepsy syndrome beginning in childhood and remitting in adolescence, characterised by nocturnal simple partial motor seizures or generalised tonic-clonic seizures. EEG shows centrotemporal spikes that are activated by sleep and an otherwise normal EEG background. (05 Mar 2000) |
| benign dry pleurisy | An acute infectious disease usually occurring in epidemic form, characterised by paroxysms of pain, usually in the chest, and associated with strains of Enterovirus coxsackievirus type B. Synonym: benign dry pleurisy, Bornholm disease, Daae's disease, devil's grip, diaphragmatic pleurisy, epidemic benign dry pleurisy, epidemic diaphragmatic pleurisy, epidemic myalgia, epidemic myositis, myositis epidemica acuta, epidemic transient diaphragmatic spasm, Sylvest's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| benign dyskeratosis | Dyskeratosis that may occur in congenital and bullous diseases of the skin. (05 Mar 2000) |