| BCA | balloon catheter angioplasty; bicinchoninic acid; blood color analyzer; Blue Cross Association; bran... |
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| CHIME | coloboma, heart anomaly, ichthyosis, mental retardation, ear abnormality |
| DG | dentate gyrus; deoxyglucose; desmoglein; diacylglycerol; diagnosis; diastolic gallop; DiGeorge [anom... |
| DGA | DiGeorge anomaly |
| DVA | developmental venous anomaly; distance visual acuity; duration of voluntary apnea; vindesine |
| Hegglin's anomaly | A disorder in which neutrophils and eosinophils contain basophilic structures known as Dohle or Amato bodies and in which there is faulty maturation of platelets, with thrombocytopenia; autosomal dominant inheritance. Synonym: May-Hegglin anomaly. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Shone's anomaly | Coarctation of the aorta, subaortic stenosis, and stenosing ring of the left atrium found in association with a parachute mitral valve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| developmental anomaly | An anomaly established during intrauterine life; a congenital anomaly. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ebstein anomaly | <radiology> Tricuspid valve: abnormal formation and insertion, usually tricuspid insufficiency, right atrial enlargement (if severe, box-like heart), decreased pulmonary vascularity, cyanosis, severe at birth, mild in later childhood, angio: to-and-fro motion of contrast between RA and atrialised RV (12 Dec 1998) |
| ebstein's anomaly | Congenital downward displacement of the tricuspid valve with the septal and posterior leaflets being attached to the wall of the right ventricle. (12 Dec 1998) |
| eugnathic anomaly | An abnormality that is limited to the teeth and their immediate alveolar supports. Synonym: eugnathic anomaly. Origin: eu-+ G. Gnathos, jaw (05 Mar 2000) |
| Uhl anomaly | Right ventricular myocardial aplasia, causing a dilated, thin-walled right ventricle without murmurs; death results in early childhood. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Freund's anomaly | A narrowing of the upper aperture of the thorax by shortening of the first rib and its cartilage; formerly believed to predispose to tuberculosis because of defective expansion of the lung apex. (05 Mar 2000) |