| PD | 1) Peritoneal Dialysis 2) Personality Disorder |
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| APD | action potential duration; acute polycystic disease; advanced physical diagnosis; anteroposterior di... |
| CPD | calcium pyrophosphate deposition; cephalopelvic disproportion; cerebelloparenchymal disorder; childh... |
| HPD | hearing protective device; high-protein diet; home peritoneal dialysis |
| IPD | idiopathic Parkinson disease; idiopathic protracted diarrhea; immediate pigment darkening; increase ... |
| ambulatory automatism | A person's automatic performance of an action or series of actions without being consciously aware of the processes involved in the performance. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| ambulatory care | Medical care (including diagnosis, observation, treatment and rehabilitation) provided on an outpatient basis. Ambulatory care is given to persons who are not confined to a hospital but rather are ambulatory and, literally, are able to ambulate or walk about. (A well-baby visit is considered ambulatory care even though the baby is not walking). (12 Dec 1998) |
| ambulatory care facilities | Those facilities which administer health services to individuals who do not require hospitalization or institutionalization. (12 Dec 1998) |
| ambulatory care information systems | Information systems, usually computer-assisted, designed to store, manipulate, and retrieve information for planning, organizing, directing, and controlling administrative activities associated with the provision and utilization of ambulatory care services and facilities. (12 Dec 1998) |
| ambulatory electrocardiography | <investigation> An investigation, during which prolonged electrocardiographic recordings are made on a portable tape recorder (holter-type system) or solid-state device, while the patient undertakes normal daily activities. It measures the heart rhythm (ECG) over a 24 hour period while the patient records their symptoms and activities in a diary. After the test is complete, a correlation is made between the symptoms or activities recorded and the ECG pattern that was obtained simultaneously. It is useful in the diagnosis and management of intermittent cardiac arrhythmias and transient myocardial ischemia. (21 Jun 2000) |
| ambulatory plague | <infectious disease> A mild form of bubonic plague characterised by symptoms such as mild fever and lymphadenitis. Synonym: larval plague, parapestis, pestis ambulans, pestis minor. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ambulatory schizophrenia | <psychiatry> A milder form of schizophrenia in which the patient is capable of maintaining himself or herself in society and need not be hospitalised. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ambulatory surgery | <surgery> Operative procedures performed on patients who are admitted to and discharged from a hospital on the same day. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ambulatory typhoid | walking typhoid |
| blood pressure monitoring, ambulatory | Method in which prolonged blood pressure readings are made while the patient undergoes normal daily activities. It allows quantitative analysis of the high blood pressure load over time, can help distinguish between types of hypertension, and can assess the effectiveness of antihypertensive therapy. (12 Dec 1998) |
| care, ambulatory | Medical care (including diagnosis, observation, treatment and rehabilitation) provided on an outpatient basis. Ambulatory care is given to persons who are not confined to a hospital but who are ambulatory and literally able to ambulate, to walk about. (A well-baby visit is considered ambulatory care even though the baby is not walking). (12 Dec 1998) |
| monitoring, ambulatory | The use of electronic equipment to observe or record physiologic processes while the patient undergoes normal daily activities. (12 Dec 1998) |
| macrophages, peritoneal | Mononuclear phagocytes derived from bone marrow precursors but resident in the peritoneum. (12 Dec 1998) |
| panniculitis, peritoneal | Condition of the peritoneum, most commonly of the mesentery, but also of the omentum, characterised by tissue thickening, alteration of fat cells, infiltration of lipid-laden macrophages, and fibrosis. (12 Dec 1998) |
| greater peritoneal cavity | The space enclosed by the peritoneum. It is divided into two portions, the greater sac and the lesser sac or omental bursa, which lies behind the stomach. The two sacs are connected by the foramen of winslow, or epiploic foramen. (12 Dec 1998) |