| HHT | head halter traction; hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia; heterotopic heart transplantation; homo... |
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| REST | Raynaud's phenomenon, esophageal motor dysfunction, sclerodactyly, and telangiectasia [syndrome]; re... |
| THH | telangiectasia hereditaria haemorrhagica; trichohyalin |
| UNTS | unilateral nevoid telangiectasia syndrome |
| ALSD | Alzheimer-like senile dementia |
| SDAT | Senile Dementia-Alzheimer's Type |
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| SP | Senile Plaques |
| SMD | Senile macular degeneration |
| SD | senile dementia |
| senile | Of or pertaining to old age; proceeding from, or characteristic of, old age; affected with the infirmities of old age; as, senile weakness. "Senile maturity of judgment. <medicine> " Senile gangrene, a form of gangrene occuring particularly in old people, and caused usually by insufficient blood supply due to degeneration of the walls of the smaller arteries. Origin: L. Senilis, from senex, gen. Senis, old, an old man: cf. F. Senile. See Senior. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| senile amyloidosis | A common form of amyloidosis in very old people, usually mild and limited to the heart. See: amyloidosis of aging. (05 Mar 2000) |
| senile arteriosclerosis | Arteriosclerosis similar to hypertensive arteriosclerosis, but as a result of advanced age rather than hypertension. (05 Mar 2000) |
| senile atrophoderma | Atrophoderma senilis, the loss of collagen, with thinning and decreased elasticity of the skin associated with old age. (05 Mar 2000) |
| senile atrophy | Wasting of tissues and organs with advancing age from decreased catabolic or anabolic processes, at times due to endocrine changes, decreased use, or ischemia. Synonym: geromarasmus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| senile cataract | A cataract occurring spontaneously in the elderly; mainly a cuneiform cataract, nuclear cataract, or posterior subcapsular cataract, alone or in combination. (05 Mar 2000) |
| senile chorea | A disorder resembling Sydenham's chorea, not associated with cardiac disease or dementia, occurring in the aged. (05 Mar 2000) |
| senile degeneration | The process of involution occurring in old age. (05 Mar 2000) |
| senile delirium | Delirium associated with senile dementia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| senile dementia | <neurology> A form of dementia caused by destruction (atrophy) of the frontal lobes of the brain. This condition leads to the progressive deterioration of mental functioning. Incidence: 9 out of 10,000 people in the population. (27 Sep 1997) |
| senile dental caries | Caries occurring in old age, usually interproximally and in the cementum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| senile deterioration | A slowly progressing decline in physical and mental health, apparently due to natural causes attendant upon the processes of aging. See: Alzheimer's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| senile dwarfism | Dwarfism characterised by craniofacial anomalies with progeroid appearance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| senile ectasia | An obsolete term for senile haemangioma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| senile emphysema | Emphysema consequent upon the physiologic atrophy of old age. (05 Mar 2000) |