| DC | daily census; data communication; data conversion; decrease; deep compartment; Dental Corps; deoxych... |
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| DCC | day care center; detected in colon cancer; dextran-coated charcoal; diameter of cylindrical collimat... |
| DCML | dorsal column medial lemniscus |
| DCN | data collection network; deep cerebral nucleus; delayed conditioned necrosis; depressed, cognitively... |
| LMC | large motile cell; lateral motor column; left main coronary [artery]; left middle cerebral [artery];... |
| hypertrophy, left ventricular | Enlargement of the left ventricle of the heart. This increase in ventricular mass is attributed to sustained abnormal pressure or volume loads and is a contributor to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| hypertrophy, right ventricular | Enlargement of the right ventricle of the heart. This increase in ventricular mass is often attributed to pulmonary hypertension and is a contributor to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. (12 Dec 1998) |
| numerical hypertrophy | <pathology> The abnormal multiplication or increase in the number of normal cells in normal arrangement in a tissue. Compare: hypertrophy. Origin: Gr. Plasis = formation (18 Nov 1997) |
| quantitative hypertrophy | <pathology> The abnormal multiplication or increase in the number of normal cells in normal arrangement in a tissue. Compare: hypertrophy. Origin: Gr. Plasis = formation (18 Nov 1997) |
| eccentric hypertrophy | Thickening of the wall of the heart or other cavity, with dilation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| endemic hypertrophy | Enlargement of the calcaneus preceded by fever and pain in the heel, reported from the Gold Coast (now Ghana) and in Taiwan among the indigenous population. (05 Mar 2000) |
| true hypertrophy | An increase in size involving all the different tissues composing the part. (05 Mar 2000) |
| false hypertrophy | Increase in size of an organ or a part, due not to increase in size or number of the specific functional elements but to that of some other tissue, fatty or fibrous. Synonym: false hypertrophy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| left ventricular hypertrophy | <radiology> Coarctation, aortic stenosis (12 Dec 1998) |
| functional hypertrophy | Temporary increase in size of an organ or part to provide for a natural increase of function, such as the kind that occurs in the walls of the uterus and in the mammae during pregnancy. Synonym: functional hypertrophy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lipomatous hypertrophy | Nonencapsulated adipose tissue forming a lipoma-like mass, usually in the cardiac interatrial septum where it may cause arrhythmia and sudden death. Synonym: lipomatous hypertrophy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| affinity column | <investigation> A technique of analytical chemistry used to separate and purify a biological molecule from a mixture, based on the attraction of the molecule of interest to a particular ligand which has been previously attached to a solid, inert substance. The mixture is passed through a column containing the ligand attached to the stationary substance, so that the molecule of interest stays within the column while the rest of the mixture continues through to the end. Then, a different chemical is flushed through the column to detach the molecule from the ligand and bring it out separately from the rest of the mixture. (09 Feb 1998) |
| anterior column | The pronounced, ventrally oriented ridge of gray matter in each half of the spinal cord; it corresponds to the anterior or ventral horn appearing in transverse sections of the cord, and contains the motor neurons innervating the skeletal musculature of the trunk, neck, and extremities. See: gray columns. Synonym: columna anterior. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anterior column of medulla oblongata | An elongated, white prominence on the ventral surface of the medulla oblongata on either side along the anterior median fissure, corresponding to the pyramidal tract. Synonym: pyramis medullae oblongatae, anterior column of medulla oblongata, anterior pyramid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anterior gray column | The central gray matter of the spinal cord surrounding the central canal. Synonym: substantia intermedia centralis et lateralis, anterior gray column, Stilling's gelatinous substance, substantia gelatinosa centralis. (05 Mar 2000) |