| GAAS | Goldberg Anorectic Attitude Scale |
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| PAS | para aminosalicylate; Parent Attitude Scale; patient administration system; patient appointments and... |
| SAAS | Substance Abuse Attitude Survey |
| SAR | scatter/air ratio; seasonal allergic rhinitis; sexual attitude reassessment; slowly adapting recepto... |
| SKAT | Sex Knowledge and Attitude Test |
| forced feeding | Giving liquid food through a nasal tube passed into the stomach, forcing a person to eat more food than desired. Synonym: forced alimentation. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| forced grasping reflex | An involuntary flexion of the fingers to tactile or tendon stimulation on the palm of the hand, producing an uncontrollable grasp; usually associated with frontal lobe lesions. Compare: darwinian reflex. Synonym: forced grasping reflex, grasp reflex. (05 Mar 2000) |
| forced respiration | Voluntary hyperventilation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| forced vital capacity | Vital capacity measured with the subject exhaling as rapidly as possible; data relating volume, expiratory flow, and time form the basis for other pulmonary function tests, e.g., flow-volume curve, forced expiratory volume, forced expiratory time, forced expiratory flow. (05 Mar 2000) |