| AMI | Acute Myocardial Infarction - Complications(Cx) 1. Early ... |
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| CPA | Chest Postero-Anterior |
| CXR | Chest X-Ray |
| ACCP | American College of Chest Physicians; American College of Clinical Pharmacology; American College of... |
| ACD | absolute cardiac dullness; absolute claudication distance; acid-citrate-dextrose [solution]; actinom... |
| lateral decubitus radiograph | A radiograph of a recumbent subject on his side, made in the frontal projection with a horizontal X-ray beam. Synonym: lateral decubitus radiograph. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| lateral oblique radiograph | A radiographic view of the mandible, revealing one side of the mandible from symphysis to condyle by displacing the other side upwards. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lateral ramus radiograph | A radiographic view of the mandibular ramus and condyle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lateral skull radiograph | A true lateral projection radiograph of facial bones and calvarium, showing bone structures and air-containing passages. (05 Mar 2000) |
| alar chest | A chest in which the anteroposterior diameter is shorter than the average. Synonym: alar chest, pterygoid chest. (05 Mar 2000) |
| barrel chest | A chest permanently resembling the shape of a barrel, i.e., with increased anteroposterior diameter, roughly equaling the lateral diameter; usually with some degree of kyphosis; seen in cases of emphysema. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gallium uptake with normal chest film | <radiology> Pulmonary drug toxicity, tumour infiltration, sarcoidosis, pneumocystis carinii see: lung: gallium imaging (12 Dec 1998) |
| pain, chest | Chest pain has many cause. One celebrated cause is angina which results from inadequate oxygen supply to the heart muscle due to coronary artery disease or spasm of the coronary arteries. Treatment of angina includes rest, medication, angioplasty, and/or coronary artery bypass surgery. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mass chest X-ray | X-ray screening of large groups of persons for diseases of the lung and heart by means of radiography of the chest. (12 Dec 1998) |
| regions of chest | The topographic divisions of the chest: presternal, mammary, inframammary, and axillary. See: pectoral region. Synonym: regiones pectorales. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chest | The anterior wall of the chest or thorax; the breast. See: thorax. Synonym: pectus, phthinoid. Origin: A.S. Cest, a box (05 Mar 2000) |
| chest film | most common X-ray used to detect abnormalities in or within the thoracic cage, such as the lungs, heart, aorta, and the bones of the chest. Extra metallic objects, such as jewelry are removed from the chest and neck areas for a chest X-ray to avoid interference with x-ray penetration and improve accuracy of the interpretation. (12 Dec 1998) |
| chest index | Anteroposterior diameter of the thorax times 100 divided by the transverse diameter of the thorax. Synonym: chest index. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chest leads | Those in which the exploring electrode is on the chest overlying the heart or its vicinity. Synonym: precordial leads, semidirect leads. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chest metastases with pneumothorax | <radiology> Common with metastatic sarcomas: osteosarcoma, rhabdomyosarcoma (12 Dec 1998) |