| RSCN | Registered Sick Children's Nurse |
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| SBS | shaken baby syndrome; short bowel syndrome; sick building syndrome; sinobronchial syndrome; small bo... |
| SC | conditioned stimulus; sacrococcygeal; Sanitary Corps; scalenus [muscle]; scapula; Schwann cell; scia... |
| SH | Salter-Harris [fracture]; Schonlein-Henoch [purpura]; self-help; serum hepatitis; sexual harassment;... |
| SSS | scalded skin syndrome; secondary Sjogren syndrome; sick sinus syndrome; specific soluble substance; ... |
| bay sore | Lesion of the pinna of the ear due to cutaneous leishmaniasis, usually Leishmania mexicana; seen in workers harvesting chicle plants in Central America. Synonym: bay sore. Origin: Sp. Chicle farmer, fr. Chicle, fr. Nahuatl chictli (05 Mar 2000) |
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| bay tree | A species of laurel. (Laurus nobilis). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| botany bay | A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770. Hence, any place to which desperadoes resort. <medicine> Botany Bay kino, a resin of reddish yellow colour, resembling gamboge, the product of different Australian species of Xanthorrhaea, especially. The grass three (X. Hastilis) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| celomic bay | Medial and lateral recesses at either side of the urogenital mesentery of the embryo, superior recess of the vestibule of the lesser peritoneal space; with the formation of the diaphragm, a portion of the right recess is cut off and becomes the infracardiac bursa; the portion below the diaphragm becomes the superior recess of the lesser peritoneal sac; the left recess is lost. Synonym: pneumatoenteric. (05 Mar 2000) |
| oil of bay | Volatile oil derived by steam distillation of the dried leaves of Pimenta (Myrcia) acris (family Myrtaceae); oil of myrcia; used as an aromatic in the manufacture of bay rum and as a pharmaceutical aid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lacrimal bay | The small cistern-like area of the conjunctiva at the medial angle of the eye, in which the tears collect after bathing the anterior surface of the eyeball and the conjunctival sac. Synonym: lacus lacrimalis, lacrimal bay. (05 Mar 2000) |