| CME | cervical mediastinal exploration; continuing medical education; Council on Medical Education; crude ... |
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| FMC | family medicine center; flight medicine clinic; focal macular choroidopathy; foundation for medical ... |
| JMD | juvenile macular degeneration |
| ME | macular edema; malic enzyme; manic episode; maximum effort; median eminence; medical education; medi... |
| MERG | macular electroretinogram |
| macular syphilid | Usually the first eruption of syphilis, occurring 6 to 12 weeks after the initial lesion. Synonym: erythematous syphilid, macular syphilid. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| cystoid macular oedema | Oedema of the posterior pole of the eye secondary to abnormal permeability of capillaries of the central sensory retina. (05 Mar 2000) |
| primary idiopathic macular atrophy | Atrophoderma in which the skin becomes bag like and wrinkled. Synonym: atrophia maculosa varioliformis cutis, atrophoderma maculatum, macular atrophy, primary idiopathic macular atrophy, primary macular atrophy of skin. Origin: G. Anetos, relaxed, + derma, skin (05 Mar 2000) |
| primary macular atrophy of skin | Atrophoderma in which the skin becomes bag like and wrinkled. Synonym: atrophia maculosa varioliformis cutis, atrophoderma maculatum, macular atrophy, primary idiopathic macular atrophy, primary macular atrophy of skin. Origin: G. Anetos, relaxed, + derma, skin (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sorsby's macular degeneration | Macular degeneration that occurs during the fifth decade of life, with sudden development of a central scotoma in one eye followed rapidly by a similar lesion in the opposite eye; autosomal dominant inheritance. Synonym: Sorsby's macular degeneration. (05 Mar 2000) |
| superior macular arteriole | Origin, central artery of retina; distribution, upper part of macula. Synonym: arteriola macularis superior. (05 Mar 2000) |
| superior macular venule | A small tributary of the central vein of the retina that drains the upper part of the macula. Synonym: venula macularis superior. (05 Mar 2000) |
| disciform macular degeneration | Foveal or parafoveal subretinal neovascularization with retinal separation and haemorrhage leading finally to a circular mass of fibrous tissue with marked loss of visual acuity. Synonym: disciform macular degeneration. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inferior macular arteriole | Origin, central artery of retina; distribution, inferior part of macula. Synonym: arteriola macularis inferior. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inferior macular venule | A small tributary of the central vein of the retina that drains the lower part of the macula. Synonym: venula macularis inferior. (05 Mar 2000) |
| familial pseudoinflammatory macular degeneration | Macular degeneration that occurs during the fifth decade of life, with sudden development of a central scotoma in one eye followed rapidly by a similar lesion in the opposite eye; autosomal dominant inheritance. Synonym: Sorsby's macular degeneration. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acrodynic erythema | Pain in the extremities. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Milian's erythema | An obsolete term for a nontoxic eruption that simulates measles or a toxic erythema, occurring usually on the ninth day of a course of medication; first described as a reaction to arsenical treatment of syphilis. Synonym: Milian's disease, Milian's erythema. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cold erythema | Rash characterised by redness and itching, brought on by exposure to cold. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wheal-and-erythema reaction | The characteristic immediate reaction observed in the skin test; within 10 to 15 minutes after injection of antigen (allergen), an irregular, blanched, elevated wheal appears, surrounded by an area of erythema (flare). Synonym: wheal-and-flare reaction. (05 Mar 2000) |