| AR | absolute risk; accounts receivable; achievement ratio; actinic reticuloid [syndrome]; active resista... |
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| CMR | cardiomodulorespirography; cerebral metabolic rate; chief medical resident; common medical record; c... |
| CMRR | common mode rejection ratio |
| CR | calculation rate; calculus removed; calorie-restricted; cardiac rehabilitation; cardiac resuscitatio... |
| TARA | total articular replacement arthroplasty; tumor-associated rejection antigen |
| parental rejection | Withholding of affection from or denial of attention to one's child. Child's withholding of affection from its parent. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| rejection | 1. <immunology, surgery> Usually used of grafts. Any process leading to the destruction or detachment of a graft or other specified structure. 2. <psychology> Non-acceptance, negative attitudes, hostility or excessive criticism of the individual which may precipitate feelings of rejection. (12 Dec 1998) |
| graft rejection | <haematology, immunology> When donated bone marrow infused during a bone marrow transplant is rejected by the patients body or does not take. (16 Dec 1997) |
| chronic allograft rejection | Immunologically mediated damage to the allograft, typically a kidney allograft, manifested by diffuse interstitial fibrosis glomerular changes, typically membranous and sclerotic in nature, as well as intimal fibrosis of the blood vessels with tubular atrophy and loss of tubular structures. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chronic rejection | A transplant rejection occurring after a few or many months, mainly from persisting serum antibody action. (05 Mar 2000) |
| primary rejection | A rejection occurring more than seven days after transplantation, mainly from a cellular immune response. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hyperacute rejection | A rejection that usually develops in less than one hour from the implantation of a vascular graft, a form of antibody-mediated, usually irreversible damage to a transplanted organ, particularly the kidney, manifested predominantly by diffuse thrombotic lesions, usually confined to the organ itself and only rarely disseminated, for skin allograft rejection of this type, see white graft. (05 Mar 2000) |
| antidepressive agents, second-generation | A structurally and mechanistically diverse group of drugs that are not tricyclics or monoamine oxidase inhibitors. The most clinically important appear to act selectively on serotonergic systems, especially by inhibiting serotonin reuptake. (12 Dec 1998) |
| burns, second degree | Second degree burns look similar to the first degree burns in that it is red and sensation is intact; however, the damage is severe enough to cause blistering of the skin and the pain is usually somewhat more intense. (12 Dec 1998) |
| centimeter-gram-second system | The scientific system of expressing the fundamental physical units of length, mass, and time, and those units derived from them, in centimeters, grams, and seconds; currently being replaced by the International System of Units based on the meter, kilogram, and second. (05 Mar 2000) |
| centimeter-gram-second unit | <unit> An absolute unit of the centimeter-gram-second system. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mendel's second law | Different hereditary factors assort independently when the gametes are formed; traits at linked loci are an exception. Synonym: Mendel's second law. (05 Mar 2000) |
| meter-kilogram-second system | An absolute system based on the meter, kilogram, and second; the basis of the International System of Units. (05 Mar 2000) |
| meter-kilogram-second unit | An absolute unit of the meter-kilogram-second system. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cycles per second | The number of successive compressions and rarefactions per second of a sound wave. The preferred designation for this unit of frequency is hertz. Acronym: cps (05 Mar 2000) |