| CW | cardiac work; case work; cell wall; chemical warfare; chemical weapon; chest wall; children's ward; ... |
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| CWS | cell wall skeleton; chest wall stimulation; child welfare service; cold water-soluble; cotton wool s... |
| VW | vascular wall; vessel wall; von Willebrand's [disease] |
| GBP scan | Gated Blood Pool (cardiac) scan = GBPS 1. LV 기능 측정 2. ... |
| RWMA | Regional Wall Motion Abnormality |
| lingual appliances | <dentistry> Orthodontic appliance fixed to the inside of your teeth. I.e. Lingual appliances are attached to the part of your teeth next to your tongue. (08 Jan 1998) |
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| lingual arch | <dentistry> An orthodontic wire attached from molar to molar in the inside of your teeth. (08 Jan 1998) |
| lingual artery | <anatomy, artery> Origin, external carotid; distribution, runs along under surface of tongue, terminates as deep lingual artery; branches, suprahyoid and dorsal lingual branches and sublingual artery. Synonym: arteria lingualis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lingual bar | A major connector located lingual to the dental arch joining two or more bilateral parts of a mandibular removable partial denture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lingual bone | <anatomy> A U-shaped bone lying between the mandible and the larynx, suspended from the styloid processes by slender stylohyoid ligaments. See: hyoid apparatus. Synonym: os hyoideum, lingual bone, tongue bone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lingual branches | Branches to the tongue. Nomina Anatomica lists lingual branches of 1) hypoglossal nerve, rami linguales nervi hypoglossi; 2) lingual nerve, rami linguales nervi lingualis; 3) glossopharyngeal nerve, rami linguales nervi glossopharyngei. Synonym: rami linguales. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lingual branch of facial nerve | Lingual branch (inconstant) of the stylohyoid branch of the facial nerve. Synonym: ramus lingularis nervi facialis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lingual crypt | A pit lined with epithelium in the lingual tonsil. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lingual embrasure | A space existing on the lingual aspect of the interproximal contact area between adjacent teeth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lingual-facial-buccal dyskinesia | A syndrome of potentially irreversible, involuntary, dyskinetic movements that may develop in patients who have been treated with antipsychotic medications (for example phenothiazines) longer-term. Other drugs known to cause tardive dyskinesia include: tricyclic antidepressants, selegiline, clozapine, levamisole and metoclopramide. (27 Sep 1997) |
| lingual flange | The portion of the flange of a mandibular denture that occupies the space adjacent to the tongue. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lingual flap | A flap derived from the tongue; used to close a defect in an adjacent part, such as the lip or palate. Synonym: lingual flap. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lingual follicles | Collections of lymphoid tissue in the mucosa of the pharyngeal part of the tongue posterior to the terminal sulcus collectively forming the lingual tonsil. Synonym: lenticular papillae, lingual follicles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lingual frenulum | A fold of mucous membrane extending from the floor of the mouth to the midline of the undersurface of the tongue. Synonym: frenulum linguae, frenulum of tongue, vinculum linguae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lingual gingiva | That portion of the gingiva that covers the lingual surfaces of the teeth and the alveolar process. (05 Mar 2000) |