| MD | Doctor of Medicine [Lat. Medicinae Doctor]; magnesium deficiency; main duct; maintenance dose; major... |
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| NDF | neutrophil diffraction factor; new dosage form |
| SDO | sudden dosage onset |
| cm | centimeter; 1/1000 meter |
| AM | Academic Medicine [journal]; actomyosin; acute myelofibrosis; adult male; adult monocyte; aerospace ... |
| meter | 1. One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter. 2. An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording automatically, the quantity measured. Dry meter, a gas meter having measuring chambers, with flexible walls, which expand and contract like bellows and measure the gas by filling and emptying. Wt meter, a gas meter in which the revolution of a chambered drum in water measures the gas passing through it. Origin: From Mete to measure. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| meter angle | The amount of convergence required to view binocularly an object 1 meter distant and exerting 1 diopter of accommodation. Synonym: unit of ocular convergence. (05 Mar 2000) |
| meter-candle | A unit of light or illumination; the reception of a luminous flux of 1 lumen per square meter of surface. Synonym: candle-meter, meter-candle. Abbreviation: lx Origin: L. Light (05 Mar 2000) |
| meter-kilogram-second system | An absolute system based on the meter, kilogram, and second; the basis of the International System of Units. (05 Mar 2000) |
| meter-kilogram-second unit | An absolute unit of the meter-kilogram-second system. (05 Mar 2000) |
| stethogonio meter | An apparatus for measuring the curvatures of the thorax. Origin: stetho-+ G. Gonia, angle, + metron, measure (05 Mar 2000) |
| newton-meter | A unit of the MKS system, expressed as energy expended, or work done, by a force of 1 newton acting through a distance of 1 meter; equal to 1 joule = 107 ergs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| kilogram-meter | <unit> A measure of energy or work done, being the amount expended in raising one kilogram through the height of one meter, in the latitude of Paris. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |