| HL | hairline; hairy leukoplakia; half life; hearing level; hearing loss; heparin lock; histiocytic lymph... |
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| Hl | hypermetropia, latent |
| lat | latent; lateral |
| LCM | latent cardiomyopathy; left costal margin; leukocyte-conditioned medium; lowest common multiple; lym... |
| LIBC | latent iron-binding capacity |
| cyclic strabismus | A strabismus that appears and disappears in rhythym, most frequently at 48-hour intervals. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| X-strabismus | Strabismus in which exotropia is more marked when looking upward or downward than when looking straight ahead. (05 Mar 2000) |
| strabismus | <clinical sign> A deviation of the eye which the patient cannot overcome. The visual axes assume a position relative to each other different from that required by the physiological conditions. The various forms of strabismus are spoken of as tropias, their direction being indicated by the appropriate prefix, as cyclo tropia, esotropia, exotropia, hypertropia and hypotropia. Also called cast, heterotropia, manifest deviation and squint. Origin: Gr. Strabismos = a squinting (18 Nov 1997) |
| strabismus deorsum vergens | An obsolete term for vertical strabismus in which the visual axis of one eye deviates downward. (05 Mar 2000) |
| strabismus sursum vergens | An obsolete term for a vertical strabismus in which the visual axis of one eye deviates upward. (05 Mar 2000) |
| divergent strabismus | <clinical sign> The outward or temporal deviation of an eye. (27 Sep 1997) |
| incomitant strabismus | Strabismus due to weakness of an ocular muscle or muscles. Synonym: incomitant strabismus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| internal strabismus | An obsolete term for esotropia (05 Mar 2000) |
| external strabismus | An obsolete term for exotropia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| kinetic strabismus | Strabismus due to spasm of an extraocular muscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| early latent syphilis | Infection with Treponema pallidum, the organism of syphilis, after the primary and secondary phases have subsided, during the first year after infection, before any manifestations of tertiary syphilis have appeared. (05 Mar 2000) |
| late latent syphilis | Usually infectious in pregnant women only, who may pass the infection on to the foetus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| latent | Dormant. A state that some cancer cells might assume. (Opp: growing or active). (16 Dec 1997) |
| latent adrenocortical insufficiency | Adrenocortical insufficiency not clinically evident but which can become severe if a sudden stress, such as an intercurrent acute illness, develops. (05 Mar 2000) |
| latent allergy | Allergy that causes no signs or symptoms but can be revealed by means of certain immunologic tests with specific allergens. (05 Mar 2000) |