| LGS | Langer-Giedion syndrome; Lennox-Gastaut syndrome; limb girdle syndrome |
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| PULSES | physical condition, upper limb function, lower limb function, sensory component, excretory function,... |
| RLL | right lobe of liver; right lower limb; right lower lobe |
| LLL | left lower [eye]lid; left liver lobe; left lower leg; left lower lobe |
| BJ | Bence Jones [protein, proteinuria]; biceps jerk; Bielschowsky-Jansky [syndrome]; bones and joints |
| joints of free upper limb | The joints uniting the bones of the free superior limb girdle; they are the shoulder joint, elbow joint, radioulnar joints, and joints of the wrist and hand. Synonym: articulationes membri superioris liberi, joints of free superior limb, juncturae membri superioris liberi. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| girdle | To kill a tree by severing or removing the living layer of the tree (the phloem) in a ring around its trunk. (09 Oct 1997) |
| girdle anaesthesia | Anaesthesia distributed as a band encircling the trunk. (05 Mar 2000) |
| girdle pain | A painful sensation encircling the body like a belt, occurring in tabes dorsalis or other spinal cord disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| girdle sensation | A sensation as if a cord were drawn around the body, constricting it. Synonym: cincture sensation, girdle sensation, strangalesthesia. Origin: G. Zone, girdle, + aisthesis, sensation (05 Mar 2000) |
| pectoral girdle | shoulder girdle |
| pelvic girdle | The bony ring formed by the hip bones and the sacrum, to which the lower limbs are attached. Synonym: cingulum membri inferioris. Shoulder girdle, the bony ring, incomplete behind, that serves for the attachment and support of the upper limbs. It is formed by the manubrium sterni, the clavicles, and the scapulae. Synonym: cingulum membri superioris, pectoral girdle, thoracic girdle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hitzig's girdle | An analgesic or hypalgesic zone in the proximal thoracic region, found in tabetic neurosyphilis. Synonym: analgesic cuirass, Hitzig's girdle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shoulder-girdle syndrome | A neurological disorder, of unknown cause, characterised by the sudden onset of severe pain, usually about the shoulder and often beginning at night, soon followed by weakness and wasting of various forequarter muscles, particularly shoulder girdle muscles; both sporadic and familial in occurrence with the former much more common; often preceded by some antecedent event, such as an upper respiratory infection, hospitalization, vaccination, or non-specific trauma; usually attributed to a brachial plexus lesion, because the nerve fibres involed are most often derived from the upper trunk, but actually multiple proximal mononeuropathies. Synonym: acute brachial radiculitis, brachial plexitis, brachial plexus neuropathy, Parsonage-Turner syndrome, shoulder-girdle syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Neptune's girdle | A wet pack applied around the abdomen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| thoracic girdle | shoulder girdle |
| acute lower GI haemorrhage | <gastroenterology> Typical presentation: Sudden onset of brisk rectal bleeding without blood in gastric aspirate Diagnostic considerations: diverticulosis, angiodysplasia, ischemic colitis, inflammatory bowel disease (rarely), polyps are usually present, carcinoma causing a chronic bleed, haemorrhoids. (12 Dec 1998) |
| arterial arch of lower eyelid | Formed by the medial palpebral artery which communicates with a branch of the lacrimal artery along the tarsal margin. Synonym: arcus palpebralis inferior. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mean lower low water | <marine biology> The average height of the lower low waters over a 19-year period. For shorter periods of observations, corrections are applied to eliminate known variations and reduce the result to the equivalent of a mean 19-year value. (09 Oct 1997) |
| cesarian section, lower segment | A Cesarian section in which the surgical incision (cut) is made in the lower segment of the uterus. (12 Dec 1998) |