| FP | false positive; family physician; family planning; family practice; family practitioner; Fanconi pan... |
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| FPIA | fluorescence polarization immunoassay |
| INEPT | insensitive nuclei enhanced by polarization transfer |
| TP | temperature and pressure; temperature probe; temporal peak; temporoparietal; tension pneumothorax; t... |
| reversed reciprocal rhythm | A cardiac arrhythmia in which a normal sinus impulse, before reaching the ventricles, is reflected backward to the atria; thus in the electrocardiogram a ventricular complex is sandwiched between a normal sinus P wave and a retrograde P wave; if the dysrhythmia continues, subsequent cycles are similar to those of reciprocating rhythm. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| reversed shunt | Right-to-left shunt that had previously been a left-to-right shunt; rarely the opposite. (05 Mar 2000) |
| reversed-three sign | On an oesophagram of a patient with coarctation of the aorta, the shape of the contrast-filled oesophagus caused by the aortic arch (upper convexity) and post-stenotic dilatation (lower convexity); the cusp of the backwards 3 is at the level of the coarctation itself. (05 Mar 2000) |
| field-reversed configuration | <radiobiology> A compact torus produced in a theta pinch and having (in principle) no toroidal field. The potential advantages for a fusion reactor include a simple (linear) machine geometry, an average plasma pressure close to the confining field pressure, and physical separation of formation and burn chambers. The are predicted to be violently unstable to tilting, but this is rarely observed. (09 Oct 1997) |