| PAR | participating provider; passive avoidance reaction; perennial allergic rhinitis; photosynthetically ... |
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| RR | radiation reaction; radiation response; rate ratio; rational recovery [group]; recovery room; relati... |
| MCCA | Medicare Catastrophic Care Act; Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act |
| cons | conservation; conservative; consultation |
| HC | hair cell; hairy cell; handicapped; head circumference; head compression; health care; healthy contr... |
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| employee retirement income security act | A 1974 federal act which preempts states' rights with regard to workers' pension benefits and employee benefits. It does not affect the benefits and rights of employees whose employer is self-insured. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| knutson-vandenberg act | (KV) Federal law that allows the U.S. Forest Service to collect money from a timber sale for resource enhancement, protection, and improvement work in the timber sale vicinity. (05 Dec 1998) |
| anaesthesia recovery period | The period of emergence from general anaesthesia, where different elements of consciousness return at different rates. (12 Dec 1998) |
| recovery | 1. A getting back or regaining; recuperation. 2. Emergence from general anaesthesia. 3. In nuclear magnetic resonance, refers to relaxation. Origin: M.E., fr. O.Fr. Recoverer, fr. L. Recupero, to recover, get back, fr. Re-, again, + capio, to take (05 Mar 2000) |
| recovery boiler | A pulp mill boiler in which lignin and spent cooking liquor (black liquor) is burned to generate steam. (05 Dec 1998) |
| recovery room | Hospital unit providing continuous monitoring of the patient following anaesthesia. (12 Dec 1998) |
| recovery score | A number expressing the condition of an infant at various stipulated intervals greater than 1 minute after birth and based on the same features assessed by the Apgar score at 60 seconds after birth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| materials recovery facility | A recycling facility for municipal solid waste. (05 Dec 1998) |
| creep recovery | The time-dependent portion of the decrease in strain in a material or object following removal of the stress that has deformed it. (05 Mar 2000) |
| product recovery | The process of separating a desired recombinant protein from the growth medium and the other elements in the host cells in which it was grown. (14 Nov 1997) |
| short TI inversion recovery | An inversion recovery sequence that uses a short inversion time, about 100 ms., between 180 |
| sinoatrial recovery time | <cardiology, physiology> Interval from the last paced P wave to the first succeeding spontaneous P wave (after 2 to 5 minutes of right atrial pacing at 120 to 140 beats per minute, and when expressed as percentage of control cycle length, it normally ranges from 115 to 159%). (05 Mar 2000) |
| spontaneous recovery | The return of the conditioned response, after apparent extinction, in the presence of the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus also being present. See: classical conditioning. (05 Mar 2000) |
| supernormal recovery phase | A brief period during the recovery of cardiac muscle following excitation when diseased muscle is more (i.e., less abnormally) excitable; corresponds to the end of the T wave in the ECG. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inversion recovery | A magnetic resonance pulse sequence in which a series of 180 |