| PS | pacemaker syndrome; paired stimulation; paradoxical sleep; paraspinal; parasympathetic; Parkinson sy... |
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| PSS | painful shoulder syndrome; physiologic saline solution; porcine stress syndrome; primary Sjogren syn... |
| RPA | radial photon apsorptiometry; replication protein A; resultant physiologic acceleration; reverse pas... |
| WOBP | physiologic work of breathing |
| hemianopic scotoma | A scotoma involving half of the central field. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| scintillating scotoma | A localised area of blindness edged by brilliantly coloured shimmering lights (teichopsia); usually a prodromal symptom of migraine. See: fortification spectrum. Synonym: flittering scotoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| scotoma | 1. An area of lost or depressed vision within the visual field, surrounded by an area of less depressed or of normal vision. 2. Mental scotoma Origin: Gr. Skotoma (18 Nov 1997) |
| Seidel's scotoma | A form of Bjerrum's scotoma. See: Seidel's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sickle scotoma | A comet-shaped scotoma, occurring in glaucoma, attached at the temporal end to the blind spot or separated from it by a narrow gap; the defect widens as it extends above and nasally curves around the fixation spot, and then extends downward to end exactly at the nasal horizontal meridian. Synonym: Bjerrum's sign, sickle scotoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| negative scotoma | A scotoma that is not ordinarily perceived, but is detected only on examination of the visual field. (05 Mar 2000) |
| quadrantic scotoma | A scotoma involving a quarter segment of the central visual field. (05 Mar 2000) |
| zonular scotoma | A curved scotoma not corresponding to the path of retinal nerve fibres. (05 Mar 2000) |
| flittering scotoma | A localised area of blindness edged by brilliantly coloured shimmering lights (teichopsia); usually a prodromal symptom of migraine. See: fortification spectrum. Synonym: flittering scotoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| calcification, physiologic | Process by which organic tissue becomes hardened by the physiologic deposit of calcium salts. (12 Dec 1998) |
| physiologic | Normal, not pathologic, characteristic of or conforming to the normal functioning or state of the body or a tissue or organ, physiological. (18 Nov 1997) |
| physiologic age | Age estimated in terms of function. (05 Mar 2000) |
| physiologic albuminuria | Presence of slight traces of protein in otherwise normal urine. Synonym: functional albuminuria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| physiologic amenorrhoea | Amenorrhoea of pregnancy or the menopause, not associated with an organic disorder. (05 Mar 2000) |
| physiologic anaemia | An obsolete term for apparent anaemia caused by increased fluid volume of the blood (overhydration). (05 Mar 2000) |