| ADT | Accepted Dental Therapeutics; adenosine triphosphate; admission, discharge, transfer; agar-gel diffu... |
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| DP | data processing; deep pulse; definitive procedure; degradation product; degree of polymerization; de... |
| DPT | Demerol, Phenergan, and Thorazine; dermatopontin; dichotic pitch discrimination test; diphtheria-per... |
| ID | identification; iditol dehydrogenase; immunodeficiency; immunodiffusion; immunoglobulin deficiency; ... |
| LDD | late dedifferentiation; light-darkness discrimination |
| karnofsky performance score | A measure given by a physician to a patients ability to perform certain ordinary tasks: 100-normal, no complaints, 70-unable to carry on normal activity, 50-requires considerable assistance, 40 - disabled, 30 - hospitalisation recommended. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| karnofsky score | A measure of the patients overall physical health, judged by their level of activity. (16 Dec 1997) |
| u-score method | An older, simpler, but somewhat less efficient method of linkage analysis than that by maximum likelihood estimation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lod score | The total relative probability, expressed on a logarithmic scale, that a linkage relationship exists among selected loci. Lod is an acronym for "logarithmic odds." (12 Dec 1998) |
| alaryngeal speech | A form of speech achieved after laryngectomy by using either an external vibratory source or the pharyngoesophageal segment as an internal vibratory source. Tracheoesophageal speech may be produced after laryngectomy by surgically diverting exhaled air to the pharynx by a permanently constructed tracheoesophageal fistula. (05 Mar 2000) |
| american speech-language-hearing association | A professional society concerned with the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and remediation of speech, language, and hearing disorders. (12 Dec 1998) |
| audiometry, speech | Measurement of the ability to hear speech under various conditions of intensity and noise interference using sound-field as well as earphones and bone oscillators. (12 Dec 1998) |
| rehabilitation of speech and language disorders | Procedures for assisting a person with a speech or language disorder to communicate with maximum efficiency. (12 Dec 1998) |
| cerebellar speech | An explosive type of utterance, with slurring of words. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mirror speech | A reversal of the order of syllables in a word, analogous to mirror writing. (05 Mar 2000) |
| clipped speech | A form of lalling in which consonants or syllables that are difficult to pronounce are omitted. Synonym: clipped speech. (05 Mar 2000) |
| motor speech centre | The posterior part of the inferior frontal gyrus of the left or dominant hemisphere, corresponding approximately to Brodmann's area 44; Broca identified this region as an essential component of the motor mechanisms governing articulated speech. Synonym: Broca's area, Broca's field, motor speech centre. (05 Mar 2000) |
| helium speech | The peculiar high-pitched, often unintelligible speech sounds produced when one breathes a mixture of up to 80 per cent helium and 20 per cent oxygen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| scamping speech | A form of lalling in which consonants or syllables that are difficult to pronounce are omitted. Synonym: clipped speech. (05 Mar 2000) |
| scanning speech | Measured or metered, often slow speech. (05 Mar 2000) |