| PTBD | percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage; percutaneous transluminal balloon dilatation |
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| ECCO2R | extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal |
| rem | removal |
| ROM | range of motion; read only memory; reduction of movement; regional office manual; removal of metal [... |
| ERBSE | Endoscopic Retrograde Balloon Stone Extraction |
| amazon stone | <chemical> A variety of feldspar, having a verdigris-green colour. Origin: Named from the river Amazon. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| artificial stone | A specially calcined gypsum derivative similar to plaster of Paris, but stronger, because the grains are nonporous. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bladder stone | A condition where small stones form within the urinary tract. See: kidney stones. (27 Sep 1997) |
| vein stone | <cardiology, pathology> A concretion or stone within a cardiovascular vein. Origin: Gr. Phlebos = vein. (11 Jun 1998) |
| Randall stone forceps | A forceps with variably curved slender blades and serrated jaws, used to extract calculi from the renal pelvis or calices. (05 Mar 2000) |
| philosopher's stone | A stone sought by the alchemists of the Middle Ages which was supposedly able to transmute base metals into gold, to make precious stone's, and to cure all ills, and thus confer longevity; it was also believed to be a universal solvent. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pulp stone | A calcified body found in the pulp chamber of a tooth; may be composed of irregular dentin (true denticle) or due to ectopic calcification of pulp tissue (false denticle). Synonym: denticle, pulp calcification, pulp calculus, pulp nodule, pulp stone. Origin: endo-+ G. Lithos, stone (05 Mar 2000) |
| purbeck stone | <geology> A limestone from the Isle of Purbeck in England. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stone | 1. To pelt, beat, or kill with stones. "And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." (Acts vii. 59) 2. To make like stone; to harden. "O perjured woman! thou dost stone my heart." (Shak) 3. To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins. 4. To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar. 5. To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone. Origin: From Stone,: cf. AS. Stnan, Goth. Stainjan. 1. Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones. "Dumb as a stone." "They had brick for stone, and slime . . . For mortar." (Gen. Xi. 3) In popular language, very large masses of stone are called rocks; small masses are called stones; and the finer kinds, gravel, or sand, or grains of sand. Stone is much and widely used in the construction of buildings of all kinds, for walls, fences, piers, abutments, arches, monuments, sculpture, and the like. 2. A precious stone; a gem. "Many a rich stone." . "Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels." . 3. Something made of stone. Specifically, the glass of a mirror; a mirror. "Lend me a looking-glass; if that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives." (Shak) A monument to the dead; a gravestone. "Should some relenting eye Glance on the where our cold relics lie." (Pope) 4. <medicine> A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus. 5. One of the testes; a testicle. 6. <botany> The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. 7. A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed. The stone of butchers' meat or fish is reckoned at 8 lbs.; of cheese, 16 lbs.; of hemp, 32 lbs.; of glass, 5 lbs. 8. Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone. "I have not yet forgot myself to stone." (Pope) 9. A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc, before printing; called also imposing stone. Stone is used adjectively or in composition with other words to denote made of stone, containing a stone or stones, employed on stone, or, more generally, of or pertaining to stone or stones; as, stone fruit, or stone-fruit; stone-hammer, or stone hammer; stone falcon, or stone-falcon. Compounded with some adjectives it denotes a degree of the quality expressed by the adjective equal to that possessed by a stone; as, stone-dead, stone-blind, stone-cold, stone-still, etc. Atlantic stone, ivory. "Citron tables, or Atlantic stone." . Bowing stone. Same as Cromlech. Meteoric stones, stones which fall from the atmosphere, as after the explosion of a meteor. Philosopher's stone. See Philosopher. Rocking stone. See Rocking-stone. Stone age, a supposed prehistoric age of the world when stone and bone were habitually used as the materials for weapons and tools; called also flint age. The bronze age succeeded to this. Stone bass, any animal that bores stones; especially, one of certain bivalve mollusks which burrow in limestone. See Lithodomus, and Saxicava. <botany> Stone bramble See Stone roller, above. A cyprinoid fish (Exoglossum maxillingua) found in the rivers from Virginia to new York. It has a three-lobed lower lip; called also cutlips. To leave no stone unturned, to do everything that can be done; to use all practicable means to effect an object. Origin: OE. Ston, stan, AS. Stan; akin to OS. & OFries. Sten, D. Steen, G. Stein, Icel. Steinn, Sw. Sten, Dan. Steen, Goth. Stains, Russ. Stiena a wall, Gr, a pebble. 167. Cf. Steen. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stone basket | An instrument passed through an endoscope to capture and extract urinary calculi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| stone cell | Type of sclerenchyma cell that differs from the fibre cell by not being greatly elongated. Often occurs singly (an idioblast) or in small groups, giving rise to a gritty texture in, for instance, the pear fruit, where it is known as a stone cell. May also occur in layers, for example in hard seed coats. (18 Nov 1997) |
| stone heart | Irreversible contraction of the left ventricle of the heart as a complication seen in the early period of cardiopulmonary bypass and now avoided by appropriate cardioplegic solutions. Synonym: myocardial rigor mortis, stone heart. (05 Mar 2000) |
| stone-hearted | Hard-hearted; cruel; pitiless; unfeeling. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stone-mason's disease | Inflammation of the lung caused by foreign bodies (inhaled particles of silica): leads to fibrosis but unlike asbestosis does not predispose to neoplasia. (18 Nov 1997) |
| tear stone | A concretion in the lacrimal apparatus. Synonym: lacrimal calculus, ophthalmolith, tear stone. Origin: dacryo-+ G. Lithos, stone (05 Mar 2000) |