| CCU | cardiac care unit; Cherry-Crandall unit; coronary care unit; critical care unit |
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| MU | megaunit; mescaline unit; methyluric [acid]; Montevideo unit; motion unsharpness; motor unit; mouse ... |
| PCU | pain control unit; primary care unit; patient care unit; pulmonary care unit |
| RU | radioulnar; rat unit; reading unit; residual urine; resin uptake; resistance unit; retrograde urogra... |
| SU | salicyluric acid; secretory unit; sensation unit; solar urticaria; sorbent unit; spectrophotometric ... |
| sweat | 1. To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire. 2. To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge. "He 'd have the poets sweat." (Waller) 3. To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap. Origin: OE. Sweten, AS. Swaetan, fr. Swat, n, sweat; akin to OFries. & OS. Swet, D. Zweet, OHG. Sweiz, G. Schweiss, Icel. Sviti, sveiti, Sw. Svett, Dan. Sved, L. Sudor sweat, sudare to sweat, Gr, sweat, to sweat, Skr. Sveda sweat, svid to sweat. 178. Cf. Exude, Sudary, Sudorific. 1. To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics. 2. To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude. "It made her not a drop for sweat." (Chaucer) "With exercise she sweat ill humors out." (Dryden) 3. To unite by heating, after the application of soldier. 4. To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labour from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers. To sweat coin, to remove a portion of a piece of coin, as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that the friction wears off a small quantity of the metal. "The only use of it [money] which is interdicted is to put it in circulation again after having diminished its weight by "sweating", or otherwise, because the quantity of metal contains is no longer consistent with its impression." (R. Cobden) 1. <physiology> The fluid which is excreted from the skin of an animal; the fluid secreted by the sudoriferous glands; a transparent, colourless, acid liquid with a peculiar odour, containing some fatty acids and mineral matter; perspiration. See Perspiration. "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." (Gen. Iii. 19) 2. The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labour; toil; drudgery. 3. Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack. 4. The sweating sickness. 5. A short run by a race horse in exercise. <anatomy> Sweat box, sudoriferous glands. See Sudoriferous. Sweat suit. A suit comprising a top and trousers, having full arms and legs, used while performing physical exercises, especially. Out-of-doors. Sweat equity. The rights to a portion of ownership or profit, hypothetically owned by a worker who participated in producing a product, such as in improving a piece of real estate. Origin: Cf. OE. Swot, AS. Swat. See Sweat. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| sweat chloride test | <investigation> A test used to diagnose cystic fibrosis. Two metal electrodes are placed on the skin of an arm or leg. Very low voltage electricity is used (only a tingling is felt) to measure the concentration of sodium and chloride in the sweat. (19 Jan 1998) |
| sweat duct | The superficial portion of the sweat gland that passes through the corium and epidermis, opening on the surface by the porus sudoriferus or sweat pore. Synonym: ductus sudoriferus, sudoriferous duct, sweat duct. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sweat gland carcinoma | <tumour> Usually a solitary tumour, nodular and fixed to the skin and underlying structure, having slow growth for long periods followed by rapid growth and dissemination. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sweat gland diseases | Diseases of the sweat glands. (12 Dec 1998) |
| sweat glands | The coil glands of the skin that secrete the sweat. Synonym: glandulae sudoriferae, Boerhaave's glands, perspiratory glands, sudoriferous glands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sweat pore | The surface opening of the duct of a sweat gland. Synonym: porus sudoriferus, porus, pore, skin pore. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sweat test | <investigation> A test used to diagnose cystic fibrosis. Two metal electrodes are placed on the skin of an arm or leg. Very low voltage electricity is used (only a tingling is felt) to measure the concentration of sodium and chloride in the sweat. (19 Jan 1998) |
| duct of sweat glands | The superficial portion of the sweat gland that passes through the corium and epidermis, opening on the surface by the porus sudoriferus or sweat pore. Synonym: ductus sudoriferus, sudoriferous duct, sweat duct. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inotophoretic sweat test | <investigation> A test used to diagnose cystic fibrosis. Two metal electrodes are placed on the skin of an arm or leg. Very low voltage electricity is used (only a tingling is felt) to measure the concentration of sodium and chloride in the sweat. (27 Sep 1997) |
| absolute unit | A unit whose value is constant regardless of place or time and not derived from dependent on gravitation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| alexin unit | The smallest amount (highest dilution) of complement that will cause haemolysis of a unit of red blood cells in the presence of a haemolysin unit. Synonym: alexin unit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Allen-Doisy unit | The quantity of oestrogen capable of producing in a spayed mouse a characteristic change in the vaginal epithelium, namely, disappearance of leukocytes and appearance of cornified cells, as determined by a vaginal smear; equal approximately to one-half of an estrone unit. Synonym: mouse unit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| amboceptor unit | haemolysin unit |
| androgen unit | The androgenic activity of 100 ug (0.1 mg) of crystalline androsterone as assayed by the comb growth response in capons. (05 Mar 2000) |