| DPS | delayed primary suture; descending perineum syndrome; dimethylpolysiloxane; dysesthetic pain syndrom... |
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| FMN | first malignant neoplasm; flavin mononucleotide; frontomaxillonasal [suture] |
| ns | nanosecond; nonspecific; no sequelae; no specimen; not significant; nylon suture |
| SES | Society of Eye Surgeons; socioeconomic status; spatial emotional stimulus; sphenoethmoidal suture; s... |
| CNPV | Continuous Negative Pressure Ventilation |
| continuous positive airway pressure | A technique of respiratory therapy, in either spontaneously breathing or mechanically ventilated patients, in which airway pressure is maintained above atmospheric pressure throughout the respiratory cycle by pressurization of the ventilatory circuit. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| continuous positive pressure breathing | Artificial ventilation in which all inspirations are provided by positive pressure applied to the airway. Synonym: continuous positive pressure breathing, continuous positive pressure ventilation, intermittent positive pressure breathing, intermittent positive pressure ventilation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| continuous positive pressure ventilation | Synonym: controlled mechanical ventilation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| continuous processing | A method of bioprocessing in which new materials are added and products removed continuously at a rate that maintains the volume at a specific level. (14 Nov 1997) |
| continuous random variable | Continuous variable that may randomly assume any value in its domain but any particular value has no probability of occurring, only a probability density. (05 Mar 2000) |
| continuous spectrum | A spectrum in which there are no absorption bands or lines. (05 Mar 2000) |
| continuous spinal anaesthesia | Insertion of a catheter into the spinal subarachnoid space and leaving it in situ to permit serial intermittent injection of local anaesthetic solution for prolonged spinal anaesthesia. Synonym: fractional spinal anaesthesia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| continuous time model | <epidemiology> A model in which the system changes continuously over time. Derivatives (e.g. DY/dt ) are the mathematical formalism for describing such continuous change. The differential equation which embodies a model provides the values of these derivatives at any particular time point; calculus or a computer can then be used to move the state of the model forwards in time. Continuous models have the advantage over discrete time models in that they are more amenable to algebraic manipulation, although they are slightly harder to implement on a computer. The same as a differential equation model. (05 Dec 1998) |
| continuous tremor | A tremor that is constant, whether the subject is at rest or moving. Synonym: continuous tremor. (05 Mar 2000) |
| continuous variable | A variable that may take on any value in an interval or intervals (its domain). (05 Mar 2000) |
| absorbable surgical suture | A surgical suture material prepared from a substance that can be digested by body tissues and is therefore not permanent; it is available in various diameters and tensile strengths, and can be treated to modify its resistance to absorption and be impregnated with antimicrobial agents. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Albert's suture | A modified Czerny suture, the first row of stitches passing through the entire thickness of the wall of the gut. (05 Mar 2000) |
| apposition suture | A suture of the skin only. Synonym: coaptation suture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| approximation suture | A suture that pulls together the deep tissues. (05 Mar 2000) |
| atraumatic suture | A suture swaged onto the end of an eyeless needle. (05 Mar 2000) |