| ASPAT | antistreptococcal polysaccharide test |
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| CPS | carbamoylphosphate synthetase; cardioplegic perfusion solution; centipoise; cervical pain syndrome; ... |
| EPS | ear-patella-short stature [syndrome]; elastosis perforans serpiginosa; electrophysiologic study; enz... |
| HPA | Health Care Practice Act; Health Policy Agenda for the American People; health promotion advocates; ... |
| PEA | pelvic examination under anesthesia; phenylethyl alcohol; phenylethylamine; polysaccharide egg antig... |
| capsular glaucoma | Glaucoma occurring in association with widespread deposition of cellular organelles on the lens capsule, ocular blood vessels, iris, and ciliary body. See: pseudoexfoliation of lens capsule. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| capsular ligament | <anatomy> Thickened portions of the fibrous membrane of an articular capsule. Synonym: ligamentum capsulare. (05 Mar 2000) |
| capsular precipitation reaction | Swelling of the capsule surrounding a bacterium as a result of interaction with anticapsular antibody, consequently the capsule becomes more refractile and conspicuous. (18 Nov 1997) |
| capsular space | The slitlike space between the visceral and parietal layers of the capsule of the renal corpuscle; it opens into the proximal tubule of the nephron at the neck of the tubule. Synonym: Bowman's space, filtration space. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pseudoexfoliative capsular glaucoma | Secondary glaucoma incident to a degenerative cyclitis producing deposits on anterior lens capsule. (05 Mar 2000) |
| specific capsular substance | A soluble type-specific polysaccharide produced during active growth of virulent pneumococci composing a large part of the capsule. Synonym: pneumococcal polysaccharide, soluble specific substance, specific soluble polysaccharide, specific soluble sugar. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Neufeld capsular swelling | Increase in opacity and visibility of the capsule of capsulated organisms exposed to specific agglutinating anticapsular antibodies. Synonym: Neufeld reaction, quellung phenomenon, quellung reaction, quellung test. Scrotal swelling, the swelling formed after the embryonic genital swellings have fused together, become spherical, and migrated caudally to the base of the penis; just before birth the testis comes to lie within it. Spielmeyer's acute swelling, a form of degeneration of nerve cells in which the cell body and its processes swell and stain palely and diffusely. (05 Mar 2000) |