| CP | candle power; capillary pressure; cardiac pacing; cardiac performance; cardiopulmonary; caudate puta... |
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| DPR | drug price review; dynamic perception resolution |
| DSP | decreased sensory perception; delayed sleep phase; desmoplakin; dibasic sodium phosphate; digital si... |
| DTVP | developmental test of visual perception |
| ESP | early systolic paradox; echo spacing; effective sensory projection; effective systolic pressure; end... |
| limit dextrin | The polysaccharide fragments remaining at the end (limit) of exhaustive hydrolysis of amylopectin or glycogen by alpha-1,4-glucan maltohydrolase, which cannot hydrolyze the alpha-1,6 bonds at branch points; accumulates in individuals with type III glycogen storage disease. Synonym: dextrin limit. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| limit dextrinase | <enzyme> An enzyme with action similar to that of isoamylase; it cleaves 1,6-alpha-glucosidic linkages in pullalan, amylopectin, and glycogen, and in alpha-and beta-amylase limit-dextrins of amylopectin and glycogen. Compare: isoamylase. Synonym: limit dextrinase, pullulanase, R enzyme. (05 Mar 2000) |
| limit dextrinosis | Glycogenosis due to amylo-1,6-glucosidase deficiency, resulting in accumulation of abnormal glycogen with short outer chains in liver and muscle. Synonym: Cori's disease, debranching deficiency limit dextrinosis, limit dextrinosis, Forbes' disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| limit of resolution | 1. <optics> The resolution of an optical system defines the closest proximity of two objects that can be seen as two distinct regions of the image. This limit depends upon the Numerical Aperture of the optical system, the contrast step between objects and background and the shape of the objects. The often quoted Airy limit applies only to self luminous discs. 2. <genetics> The smallest map distance measurable by an experiment involving a certain number of classified recombinant progency. (10 Mar 1998) |
| auditory perception | The process whereby auditory stimuli are selected, organised and interpreted by the organism; includes speech discrimination. (12 Dec 1998) |
| visual perception | The selecting and organizing of visual stimuli based on the individual's past experience. (12 Dec 1998) |
| perception | <psychology> The conscious mental registration of a sensory stimulus. Origin: L. Percipere = to take in completely (18 Nov 1997) |
| gradient perception | <cell biology> Problem faced by a cell that is to respond directionally to a gradient of, for example: a diffusible attractant chemical. In a spatial mechanism the cell would compare receptor occupancy at different sites on the cell surface, a temporal mechanism would involve comparison of concentrations at different times, the cell moving randomly between readings. In pseudospatial sensing, the cell would detect the gradient as a consequence of positive feedback to protrusive activity if receptor occupancy increased with time as the protrusion moved up gradient. Few cell types have been unambiguously shown to detect gradients. (18 Nov 1997) |
| gravity perception | Process whereby a bodily structure or organism (animal or plant) receives or detects a gravity stimulus. The sensing may be direct or indirect and may or may not initiate a reaction to the stimulus. (12 Dec 1998) |
| weight perception | Recognition and discrimination of the heaviness of a lifted object. (12 Dec 1998) |
| colour perception | The visual awareness of any particular hue or achromatic colour. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pitch perception | A dimension of auditory sensation varying with cycles per second of the sound stimulus. (12 Dec 1998) |
| motion perception | The real or apparent movement of objects through the visual field. (12 Dec 1998) |
| simultaneous perception | A combination of two slightly dissimilar images into a single image. (05 Mar 2000) |
| size perception | The sensory interpretation of the dimensions of objects. (12 Dec 1998) |