| NRS | neurobehavioral rating scale; normal rabbit serum; normal reference serum; numerical rating scale |
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| NRSCC | National Reference System in Clinical Chemistry |
| ORS | olfactory reference syndrome; oral rehydration solution; oral surgery, oral surgeon; Orthopaedic Res... |
| OSI | open systems interconnection [reference model] |
| PDR | pediatric radiology; peripheral diabetic retinopathy; Physicians' Desk Reference; postdelivery room;... |
| delusion of control | Delusion of being controlled, a delusion in which one experiences one's feelings, impulses, thoughts, or actions as not one's own, but as being imposed on by some external force. Synonym: delusion of passivity. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| delusion of grandeur | A delusion in which one believes himself possessed of great wealth, intellect, importance and/or power, a common feature of schizophrenia. (27 Sep 1997) |
| delusion of negation | A delusion in which one imagines that the world and all that relates to it have ceased to exist. Synonym: nihilistic delusion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| delusion of passivity | Delusion of being controlled, a delusion in which one experiences one's feelings, impulses, thoughts, or actions as not one's own, but as being imposed on by some external force. Synonym: delusion of passivity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| delusion of persecution | A false notion that one is being persecuted, characteristic symptom of paranoid schizophrenia. (27 Sep 1997) |
| systematised delusion | A delusion that is logically constructed from a false premise and embraces a specific sector of the patient's life. (05 Mar 2000) |
| idea of reference | The misinterpretation that other people's statements or acts or neutral objects in the environment are directed toward one's self when, in fact, they are not. (05 Mar 2000) |
| encapsulated delusion | A delusion that usually relates to one specific topic or belief but does not pervade an individual's life or level of functioning. (05 Mar 2000) |
| triaxial reference system | The figure resulting from rearranging the lines of derivation of the three standard limb leads of the electrocardiogram (as represented in Einthoven's triangle) so that, instead of forming the sides of an equilateral triangle, they bisect one another. Synonym: Dieuaide diagram. (05 Mar 2000) |
| expansive delusion | A delusion in which one believes himself possessed of great wealth, intellect, importance and/or power, a common feature of schizophrenia. (27 Sep 1997) |
| unsystematised delusion | One of a group of apparently discrete, disconnected delusion's. (05 Mar 2000) |