| AP | accessory pathway; accounts payable; acid phosphatase; acinar parenchyma; action potential; active p... |
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| OB | obese [mouse]; obese, obesity; objective benefit; obliterative bronchiolitis; obstetrics, obstetrici... |
| NOR | Nucleolar Organizing Region |
| COP | capillary osmotic pressure; change of plaster; coefficient of performance; colloid oncotic pressure;... |
| IOC | International Organizing Committee on Medical Librarianship; intern on call |
| endangiitis obliterans | Inflammation of the intima of a vessel with resulting occlusion of its lumen. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| endarteritis obliterans | Obliterating endarteritis, an extreme degree of endarteritis proliferans closing the lumen of the artery. Synonym: arteritis obliterans, obliterating arteritis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acute interstitial pneumonia | A severe and usually fatal form of pneumonia occurring primarily in infants usually considered a form of hypersensitivity pneumonitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| alcoholic pneumonia | Pneumonia occurring in patient with alcoholism, usually after a period of intoxication with stupor, resulting in aspiration. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anthrax pneumonia | A form of anthrax acquired by inhalation of dust containing Bacillus anthracis; there is an initial chill followed by pain in the back and legs, rapid respiration, dyspnea, cough, fever, rapid pulse, and extreme cardiovascular collapse. Synonym: anthrax pneumonia, ragpicker's disease, ragsorter's disease, rag-sorter's disease, wool-sorter's pneumonia, woolsorter's disease, wool-sorter's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| apex pneumonia | Apical pneumonia, pneumonia of the apex or apices. (05 Mar 2000) |
| aspiration pneumonia | <chest medicine> Refers to the inappropriate passage of food, water, stomach acid, vomit or another foreign material into the lungs. Aspiration, particularly involving gastric acid, will often result in a serious pneumonia. (27 Sep 1997) |
| atypical pneumonia | <chest medicine> This refers to a type of pneumonia that does not follow the typical signs and symptoms of pneumonia. A number of different viral and bacterial agents have been identified which can cause this form of respiratory infection. Examples include Chlamydia pneumonia, psittacosis, Mycoplasma, influenza A or B, adenovirus and Legionella. Antibiotics will be necessary in all but the mildest cases. Symptoms generally improve in less than 2 weeks. (27 Sep 1997) |
| bacterial pneumonia | Infection of the lung with any of a large variety of bacteria, especially Streptococcus pneumoniae(pneumococcus). (05 Mar 2000) |
| bilious pneumonia | Pneumonia following aspiration of gastric contents containing bile. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bronchial pneumonia | <chest medicine> A name given to an inflammation of the lungs which usually begins in the terminal bronchioles. These become clogged with a mucopurulent exudate forming consolidated patches in adjacent lobules. The disease is frequently secondary in character, following infections of the upper respiratory tract, specific infectious fevers and debilitating diseases. In infants and debilitated persons of any age it may occur as a primary affection. Synonym: bronchial pneumonia, bronchoalveolitis, bronchopneumonitis, lobular pneumonia. (11 Jan 1998) |
| gangrenous pneumonia | Gangrene of the lungs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| recurrent pneumonia in childhood | <radiology> IMMUNE PROBLEMS, immune deficiency, chronic granulomatous disease of childhood, alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, ASPIRATION, GE reflux, H-type TE fistula, disorder of swallowing, oesophageal obstruction, UNDERLYING LUNG DISEASE, sequestration, brochopulmonary dysplasia, cystic fibrosis, atopic asthma, bronchiolitis obliterans, sinusitis, bronchiectasis, ciliary dysmotility syndromes, pulmonary foreign body (12 Dec 1998) |
| giant cell pneumonia | A rare complication of measles, with the postmortem finding of multinucleated giant cells lining alveoli. Synonym: Hecht's pneumonia, interstitial giant cell pneumonia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| caseous pneumonia | A form of severe pulmonary tuberculosis in which tubercles are not prominent, but with a diffuse extensive cellular infiltration that undergoes caseation affecting large areas of lung. (05 Mar 2000) |