| ESWL | Extracorporeal Shock-Wave Lithotripsy - Ix for Gall Stone ... |
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| BCP | basic calcium phosphate; birth control pill; blue cone pigment; Blue Cross Plan; bromcresol purple |
| CHRPE | congenital hypertrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium |
| PDSG | pigment dispersion syndrome glaucoma |
| PEDF | pigment epithelium-derived factor |
| urinary exertional incontinence | Leakage of urine as a result of coughing, straining, or some sudden voluntary movement, due to weakness of the fascia muscles and at the neck of the bladder. Synonym: urinary exertional incontinence. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| urinary incontinence, stress | The involuntary discharge of urine as a result of anatomic displacement which exerts an opening pull on the bladder orifice. It often occurs during coughing or other forceful stresses. (12 Dec 1998) |
| accessory pigment | <biochemistry> Light-absorbing pigments such as carotenoids and phycobilins that serve as complements to photosynthesis. (06 May 1997) |
| bile pigment haemoglobin | <protein> A protein which is formed from the breakdown of haemoglobin (a protein that carries oxygen in the blood) and is a precursor to the bile pigment biliverdin. (09 Oct 1997) |
| malarial pigment | A dark brown, granular pigment which rotates the plane of polarised light and has other properties similar to formalin pigment; occurs in parasites, such as Plasmodium malariae, around brain capillaries, and in fixed macrophages of spleen, liver, bone marrow, and lymph nodes. See: malarial pigment stain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| malarial pigment stain | <technique> A stain using phloxine-toluidine blue O sequence; malarial pigment and nuclei are bluish, erythrocytes and cytoplasm are red to orange; found in phagocytic cells of the reticuloendothelial system. (05 Mar 2000) |
| melanotic pigment | <protein> Pigments largely of animal origin. High molecular weight polymers of indole quinone. Colours include black/brown, yellow, red and violet. Found in feathers, cuttle ink, human skin, hair and eyes and in cellular immune responses and wound healing in arthropods. (18 Nov 1997) |
| chymotropic pigment | A pigment dissolved in the vacuole of a plant cell. Origin: G. Chymos, juice, + trope, turning, inclination, + -ic (05 Mar 2000) |
| pigment | 1. Any material from which a dye, a paint, or the like, may be prepared; particularly, the refined and purified colouring matter ready for mixing with an appropriate vehicle. 2. <physiology> Any one of the coloured substances found in animal and vegetable tissues and fluids, as bilirubin, urobilin, chlorophyll, etc. 3. Wine flavored with species and honey. <physiology> Pigment cell, a small cell containing colouring matter, as the pigmented epithelial cells of the choroid and iris, or the pigmented connective tissue cells in the skin of fishes, reptiles, etc. Origin: L. Pigmentum, fr. The root of pingere to paint: cf. F. Pigment. See Paint, and cf. Pimento, Orpiment. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pigment cell | Cells that contain pigment: See: melanocytes, chromatophores. (18 Nov 1997) |
| pigment cell of skin | Special cells in the skin and the eye that synthesise melanin pigments. Clusters of melanocytes often appear on the skin as moles. In fish and reptiles, the pigments are stored in melanosomes (chromatophores) that can be redistributed in the cytoplasm to change pigment patterns. Synonym: melanodendrocyte. Origin: melano-+ G. + kytos, a hollow (cell) (29 Sep 1997) |
| pigment cells of iris | Cell's of the stromal layer of the iris; in dark eyes (but not in blue) they contain granules of pigment. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pigment cells of retina | Cell's in the outermost layer of the retina that contain pigment granules. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pigment cirrhosis | Cirrhosis of the liver associated with dark brown discoloration seen in haemochromatosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pigment epitheliopathy | An acute disease manifested by rapid loss of vision, and multifocal, cream-coloured placoid lesions of the retinal pigment epithelium; resolves with restoration of vision. (05 Mar 2000) |