| NBM | no bowel movement; normal bone marrow; normal bowel movement; nothing by mouth |
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| CSB | contaminated small bowel; craniosynostosis, Boston type |
| CSBS | contaminated small bowel syndrome |
| MSB | Master of Science in Bacteriology; mid-small bowel; most significant bit |
| SB | Bachelor of Science; Schwartz-Bartter [syndrome]; serum bilirubin; shortness of breath; sick bay; si... |
| tubular small bowel | <radiology> (toothpaste small bowel) globally featureless small bowel: mucosal folds effaced, graft-vs.-host disease (GvH), Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) (in AIDS), ischemia, Crohn disease, radiation, Strongyloides, milk enteropathy, sprue, corrosive enteritis, lymphoma, amyloidosis, mastocytosis, FUDR toxicity (12 Dec 1998) |
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| localised small bowel disease | <radiology> Crohn's, tumour (including lymphoma), bleed/oedema (12 Dec 1998) |
| body weights and measures | The systems of measurement applied to the height, weight, length, area, etc., of the human and animal body or its parts. (12 Dec 1998) |
| measures of central tendency | General term for several characteristics of the distribution of a set of measurements or values around a value or values at or near the middle of the set; the principal measures of central tendency are mean, median, and mode. (05 Mar 2000) |
| weights and measures | A unit or standard of measurement. (12 Dec 1998) |
| security measures | Regulations to assure protection of property and equipment. (12 Dec 1998) |
| radiation-protective agents | Drugs used to protect against ionizing radiation. They are usually of interest for use in radiation therapy but have been considered for other, e.g. Military, purposes. (12 Dec 1998) |
| gloves, protective | Coverings for the hands, usually with separations for the fingers, made of various materials, for protection against infections, toxic substances, extremes of hot and cold, radiations, water immersion, etc. The gloves may be worn by patients, care givers, housewives, laboratory and industrial workers, police, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
| respiratory protective devices | Respirators to protect individuals from breathing air contaminated with harmful dusts, fogs, fumes, mists, gases, smokes, sprays, or vapors. (12 Dec 1998) |
| head protective devices | Personal devices for protection of heads from impact, penetration from falling and flying objects, and from limited electric shock and burn. (12 Dec 1998) |
| protective | <pharmacology> An agent that affords defense against a deleterious influence, such as a substance applied to the skin to avoid the effects of the sun's rays or other noxious influences. Origin: L. Protegere = to cover over (18 Nov 1997) |
| protective agents | Synthetic or natural substances which are given to prevent a disease or disorder or are used in the process of treating a disease or injury due to a poisonous agent. (12 Dec 1998) |
| protective block | An incompletely understood mechanism whereby a pacemaker is protected from being discharged by the impulse from another centre; the mechanism, usually conceived as an encircling zone of unidirectionally refractory tissue permitting egress of impulses from the centre but preventing access to the centre, is seen in operation in ventricular parasystole where the parasystolic centre is protected from discharge by the sinus pacemaker and so is able to maintain its intrinsic rhythm undisturbed. Synonym: entrance block, protection. (05 Mar 2000) |
| protective clothing | Clothing designed to protect the individual against known hazards to which he will be exposed. (12 Dec 1998) |
| protective colloid | A colloid that has the power of preventing the precipitation of suspensoids under the influence of an electrolyte. (05 Mar 2000) |