| 영문 | symptomatic therapy | 한글 | 대증요법 |
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| 설명 | 병의 원인을 찾아 없애기 곤란한 상황에서, 겉으로 나타난 병의 증상에 대응하여 처치를 하는 치료법. 열이 높을 때에 얼음주머니를 대거나 해열제를 써서 열을 내리게 하는 따위가 이에 속한다. |
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| 영문 | radiation therapy | 한글 | 방사선요법 |
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| 설명 | X선, γ선의 전자방사선이나 전자선, 양자선, 중성자선 등의 입자방사선을 이용해, 주로 악성 종양 치료를 목적으로 하는 치료법이다. 암세포가 주위의 정상세포보다도 방사선 감수성이 높은 점을 이용하여, 정상세포의 손상을 가능한 한 최소로 억제하면서 암세포를 파괴한다. 사용되는 방사선에는 밀봉소선원에서 나오는 γ선, 직선가속기에서 얻어지는 고에너지 X선과 전자선, 텔레코발트장치에 의한 60Co의 γ선과, 베타트론에 의한 전자선, 사이크로트론에서 얻어지는 양자선, 중성자선 등이 있다. |
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| 영문 | radiation therapy | 한글 | 방사선치료 |
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| 설명 | 방사선의 살균효과나 세포를 죽이는 효과를 치료에 이용하는 방법으로, 좁은 의미로 암의 방사선치료를 의미한다. 암에 대한 방사선치료는 암세포를 죽이는데 효과가 큰 베타선을 주로 사용한다. 하지만, 이런 방사선치료는 정상세포에도 큰 영향을 끼쳐 이에 따른 기능의 장애를 가져올 수 있다. 따라서 방사선치료에 있어서는 단지 그 암세포에 대한 작용뿐만 아니라, 정상세포에 대한 작용도 고려하여 시행한다. |
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| 영문 | speech therapy | 한글 | 언어치료 |
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| 설명 | 말을 정확하게 발음할 수 없거나 더듬는 환자에게 발음, 대화 따위의 훈련을 전문적으로 행하는 치료법. |
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| 영문 | therapy | 한글 | 요법 |
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| 설명 | 병을 낫게 하는 것 또는 그 방법. |
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| GT | gait training; galactosyl transferase; gastrostomy; generation time; genetic therapy; gingiva treatm... |
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| RT | radiologic technologist; radiotelemetry; radiotherapy; radium therapy; rapid tranquilization; reacti... |
| LR | labeled release; laboratory references; laboratory report; labor room; lactated Ringer [solution]; l... |
| NLP | no light perception; nodular liquefying panniculitis; normal light perception; normal luteal phase |
| PL | palmaris longus; pancreatic lipase; perception of light; peroneus longus; phospholipase; phospholipi... |
| consensual light reflex | Contraction of the pupil of the fellow eye in consensus with the pupil of the illuminated eye. Synonym: consensual light reflex, indirect pupillary reaction. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| P light chain | <protein> Myosin light chain that can be phosphorylated by myosin light chain kinase, as a result of phosphorylation, the myosin is activated. (18 Nov 1997) |
| polarised light | Light in which, as a result of reflection or transmission through certain media, the vibrations are all in one plane, transverse to the ray, instead of in all planes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| polarized light | <microscopy> Light that is vibrating in one plane (plane-polarized light), light with a rotary vibration (circular polarized light), or light that is vibrating elliptically (elliptically polarized light). Moonlight and skylight are polarized, as is much reflected light, cloud light is polarized under certain conditions. However, naturally polarized light is, on the whole, rather imperfectly polarized. (05 Aug 1998) |
| polarized light microscope | <instrument, microscopy> A microscopical polarizcope, i.e., a compound microscope which is equipped with two polars and a Bertrand lens, chemists and mineralogists are the principal users. (05 Aug 1998) |
| myosin light chain | <protein> The light chains of the muscle protein myosin. Each molecule of myosin is composed of two heavy chains and two pairs of light chains. The light chains have a molecular weight of about 20 kD and there is one dissimilar pair of light chains associated with each heavy chain. The proteins all have sequence homology to calmodulin, but not all with calcium binding activity. Several types are known: regulatory light chains (LC 2, DNTB light chains) probably regulate the ATPase activity of the heavy chain directly (through the binding of calcium) or indirectly (activating when they themselves are phosphorylated by myosin light chain kinase) and essential light chains (LC 1, LC 3, alkali light chains), which have a more subtle and apparently nonessential role. In molluscan muscle the EDTA light chains (similar to LC 2 from vertebrate muscle) confer calcium sensitivity on the myosin itself. The light chains are "calmodulin-like" proteins that bind calcium. Two of them can be removed easily, and two with difficulty. The light chains bind the heavy chains in the vicinity of the head groups of the myosin. (12 Dec 1998) |
| myosin light chain kinase | <enzyme> An enzyme that phosphorylates myosin light chains in the presence of ATP to yield myosin-light chain phosphate and ADP, and requires calcium and calmodulin. The 20-kD light chain is phosphorylated more rapidly than any other acceptor, but light chains from other myosins and myosin itself can act as acceptors. The enzyme plays a central role in the regulation of smooth muscle contraction. Chemical name: ATP:myosin-light-chain O-phosphotransferase Registry number: EC 2.7.1.117 (12 Dec 1998) |
| curing light | <dentistry> A special UV light used to help attach brackets to your teeth (08 Jan 1998) |
| pupillary light-near dissociation | A stronger near pupil response than light response; due to weak pupillomotor input, Argyll Robertson pupil, dorsal midbrain syndrome, or to misdirection of ciliary muscle fibres into the iris sphincter. Synonym: light-near dissociation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pyramid of light | A triangular area at the anterior inferior part of the tympanic membrane, running from the umbo to the periphery, where there is seen a bright reflection of light. Synonym: cone of light, light reflex, Politzer's luminous cone, red reflex, Wilde's triangle. Malacarne's pyramid, a lobule on the undersurface of the cerebellum, the posterior portion of the vermis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| swinging light test | Test to detect a relative afferent defect in one eye by watching pupillary movements. With the patient fixing in the distance, the light is held on each eye for about a second, and quickly moved to the other eye. Assuming no defect of the innervation to the iris sphincter in one eye (which would produce an anisocoria in light), the eye with the weaker light response has a relative afferent pupillary defect. This asymmetry of pupillomotor input can be estimated by holding neutral density filters in front of the better eye until the pupillary responses of the two eyes are balanced. Synonym: swinging light test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| drummond light | A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; called also oxycalcium light, or lime light. The name is also applied sometimes to a heliostat, invented by Drummond, for rendering visible a distant point, as in geodetic surveying, by reflecting upon it a beam of light from the sun. Origin: From Thomas Drummond, a British naval officer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| immunoglobulins, light-chain | Polypeptide chains, consisting of 211 to 217 amino acid residues, isolated from immunoglobulins and having a molecular weight of approximately 22 kD. There are two major types of light chains, kappa and lambda. In man they are found in a ratio of 60% to 40%, respectively. Both chains consist of linear repeating, similar, but not identical, segments of about 110 amino acid residues. In each segment a disulfide bond establishes a tightly folded approximately 60-membered loop or domain. Adjacent domains are linked by less tightly folded regions. Both light chains contain two such domains. Two light and two heavy chains make one immunoglobulin molecule, but both light chains in one ig are of the same type. (12 Dec 1998) |
| incident light | <microscopy> Sometimes denotes any over-stage lighting not included by methods of vertical illumination. (05 Aug 1998) |
| infrared light | See: infrared. Invisible light, historic term for X-rays. (05 Mar 2000) |