| A&D | admission and discharge; ascending and descending |
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| ADT | Accepted Dental Therapeutics; adenosine triphosphate; admission, discharge, transfer; agar-gel diffu... |
| AND | algoneurodystrophy; anterior nasal discharge |
| BIPLED | bilateral, independent, periodic, lateralized epileptiform discharge |
| CDD | certificate of disability for discharge; choledochoduodenostomy; chronic degenerative disease; chron... |
| silent mutation | Mutations that have no effect on phenotype because they do not affect the activity of the product of the gene, usually because of codon ambiguity. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| silent myocardial infarction | Infarction that produces none of the characteristic symptoms and signs of myocardial infarction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| silent period | The time during which there is no electrical activity in a muscle following its rapid unloading, any pause in an otherwise continuous series of electrophysiologic events. (05 Mar 2000) |