| LA50 | total body surface area of burn that will kill 50% of patients (lethal area) |
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| RB | radiation burn; rating board; rebreathing; reticulate body; retinoblastoma; right bronchus; right bu... |
| TBS | total body solids; total body solute; total body surface; total burn size; Townes-Brocks syndrome; t... |
| SI | System of International Units (Systeme International D'unites) |
| GUA | group of units of analysis |
| first degree burn | A burn involving only the epidermis and causing erythema and oedema without vesiculation. Synonym: superficial burn. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| flash burn | A burn due to very brief exposure to intense radiant heat; the typical burn produced by atomic explosion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| full-thickness burn | A burn involving destruction of the entire skin; deep third-degree burns extend into subcutaneous fat, muscle, or bone and often cause much scarring. Synonym: full-thickness burn. (05 Mar 2000) |
| absolute system of units | A system based on absolute units accepted as being fundamental (length, mass, time) and from which other units (force, energy or work, power) are derived; such system's in common use are the foot-pound-second, centimeter-gram-second, and meter-kilogram-second system's. (05 Mar 2000) |
| alpha units | Cytoplasmic glycogen granules arranged in rosettes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| base units | The fundamental unit's of length, mass, time, electric current, thermodynamic temperature, amount of substance, and luminous intensity in the International System of Units (SI); the names and symbols of the unit's for these quantities are meter (m), kilogram (kg), second (s), ampere (A), kelvin (K), mole (mol), and candela (cd). See: International System of Units. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gravitational units | Of energy: gram-centimeter, gram-meter, kilogram-meter, and foot-pound. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mobile health units | Movable facilities in which diagnostic and therapeutic services are provided to the community. (12 Dec 1998) |
| colony-forming units assay | A cytologic technique for measuring the functional capacity of stem cells by assaying their activity. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Wood units | A simplified measurement of pulmonary vascular resistance that uses pressures instead of more complicated units measured by subtracting pulmonary capillary wedge pressure from the mean pulmonary arterial pressure and dividing by cardiac output in liters per minute. (05 Mar 2000) |
| coronary care units | The hospital unit in which patients with acute cardiac disorders receive intensive care. (12 Dec 1998) |
| haemodialysis units, hospital | Hospital units in which care is provided the haemodialysis patient. This includes haemodialysis centres in hospitals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| practical units | Unit's of magnitudes convenient for use in the practical applications of electricity; as originally defined they were absolute unit's (multiples of CGS electromagnetic unit's); they include the ampere, coulomb, farad, henry, joule, ohm, volt, and watt. (05 Mar 2000) |
| self-care units | Rooms in health care facilities for patients who require a minimal level of care. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hospital units | Those areas of the hospital organization not considered departments which provide specialised patient care. They include various hospital special care wards. (12 Dec 1998) |