| BSO | bilateral sagittal osteotomy; bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy; British School of Osteopathy; butathi... |
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| FNFMG | foreign national foreign medical school graduate |
| FORIMG | foreign national international medical school graduate |
| MFSS | Medical Field Service School |
| MSES | medical school environmental stress |
| school phobia | <psychology> A young child's sudden aversion to or fear of attending school, usually considered a manifestation of separation anxiety. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| hippocratic school | The followers of the teachings of Hippocrates. See: dogmatic school. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dogmatic school | Ancient Greek school or tradition in medicine whose members were the successors to or followers of Hippocrates; they based their conceptions of disease upon the humoral theory and their practice upon experience and sound reasoning, and were comparatively free from fads, speculative theories, and dogma, which the term dogmatic falsely implies. (05 Mar 2000) |
| iatromathematical school | A group of academicians, of whom Descartes was one of the foremost proponents, who maintained that all physiologic processes were the result of physical laws. Synonym: mechanistic school. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dynamic school | A group of theorists founded by Stahl, who professed the belief that all vital action is the result of an internal force independent of anything external to the body. (05 Mar 2000) |