| AR | absolute risk; accounts receivable; achievement ratio; actinic reticuloid [syndrome]; active resista... |
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| CMR | cardiomodulorespirography; cerebral metabolic rate; chief medical resident; common medical record; c... |
| CMRR | common mode rejection ratio |
| CR | calculation rate; calculus removed; calorie-restricted; cardiac rehabilitation; cardiac resuscitatio... |
| TARA | total articular replacement arthroplasty; tumor-associated rejection antigen |
| allograft rejection | The rejection of tissue transplanted between two genetically different individuals of the same species. Rejection is caused by T lymphocytes responding to the foreign major histocompatibility complex of the graft. Synonym: homograft. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| parental rejection | Withholding of affection from or denial of attention to one's child. Child's withholding of affection from its parent. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rejection | 1. <immunology, surgery> Usually used of grafts. Any process leading to the destruction or detachment of a graft or other specified structure. 2. <psychology> Non-acceptance, negative attitudes, hostility or excessive criticism of the individual which may precipitate feelings of rejection. (12 Dec 1998) |
| graft rejection | <haematology, immunology> When donated bone marrow infused during a bone marrow transplant is rejected by the patients body or does not take. (16 Dec 1997) |
| chronic allograft rejection | Immunologically mediated damage to the allograft, typically a kidney allograft, manifested by diffuse interstitial fibrosis glomerular changes, typically membranous and sclerotic in nature, as well as intimal fibrosis of the blood vessels with tubular atrophy and loss of tubular structures. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chronic rejection | A transplant rejection occurring after a few or many months, mainly from persisting serum antibody action. (05 Mar 2000) |
| primary rejection | A rejection occurring more than seven days after transplantation, mainly from a cellular immune response. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hyperacute rejection | A rejection that usually develops in less than one hour from the implantation of a vascular graft, a form of antibody-mediated, usually irreversible damage to a transplanted organ, particularly the kidney, manifested predominantly by diffuse thrombotic lesions, usually confined to the organ itself and only rarely disseminated, for skin allograft rejection of this type, see white graft. (05 Mar 2000) |
| burns, first degree | A first degree burn is superficial and has similar characteristics to a typical sun burn. The skin is red in colour and sensation is intact. In fact, it is usually somewhat painful. (12 Dec 1998) |
| ventriculography, first-pass | Radionuclide ventriculography where a bolus of radionuclide is injected and data are recorded from one pass through the heart ventricle. Left and right ventricular function can be analyzed independently during this technique. First-pass ventriculography is preferred over gated blood pool imaging for assessing right ventricular function. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Mendel's first law | Factors that affect development retain their individuality from generation to generation, do not become contaminated when mixed in a hybrid, and become sorted out from one another when the next generation of gametes is formed. Synonym: Mendel's first law. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mirror, first or front surface | <microscopy> An optical mirror on which the reflecting surface is applied to the front surface of the mirror instead of to the back, that is, to the first surface of incidence. (05 Aug 1998) |
| pregnancy trimester, first | Period of pregnancy from the first day of the last normal menstrual period through the completion of 14 weeks (98 days) of gestation. (12 Dec 1998) |
| healing by first intention | Healing by fibrous adhesion, without suppuration or granulation tissue formation. Synonym: primary adhesion, primary union. (05 Mar 2000) |
| schneiderian first rank symptoms | Those symptom's that, when present, indicate that the diagnosis of schizophrenia is likely, provided that organic or toxic aetiology is ruled out: delusion of control, thought broadcasting, thought withdrawal, thought insertion, hearing one's thoughts spoken aloud, auditory hallucinations that comment on one's behaviour, and auditory hallucinations in which two voices carry on a conversation. Synonym: first rank symptoms, schneiderian first rank symptoms. (05 Mar 2000) |