| SCM | split cord malformation |
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| BSSO | bilateral sagittal split osteotomy |
| STSG | split thickness skin graft |
| split-thickness graft | A graft of portions of the skin, i.e., the epidermis and part of the dermis, or of part of the mucosa and submucosa, but not including the periosteum. Synonym: partial-thickness graft, split-skin graft. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| split tolerance | Modification of an immune response to an antigen after prior exposure to that antigen. Synonym: split tolerance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| split-tongued | <zoology> Having a forked tongue, as that of snakes and some lizards. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| split-virus vaccine | <pharmacology> A vaccine composed of a purified antigenic determinant that is separated from the disease-causing organism. (06 Mar 1998) |
| Needles' split cast method | A procedure for placing indexed casts on an articulator to facilitate their removal and replacement on the instrument, the procedure of checking the ability of an articulator to receive or be adjusted to a maxillomandibular relation record. Synonym: Needles' split cast method. (05 Mar 2000) |
| adder's-tongue | <botany> A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| anti-black-tongue factor | A precursor of NAD, that is a product of the oxidation of nicotine. (18 Nov 1997) |
| baked tongue | The dry blackish tongue noted when patients with typhoid fever or other disorders are allowed to become dehydrated. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bald tongue | An erythematous, edematous, and painful tongue which appears smooth due to loss of the filiform and sometimes the fungiform papillae secondary to certain nutritional deficiencies, especially B-vitamin deficencies, as seen in pellagra, thiamin deficiency, and disorders such as pernicious anaemia (Hunter's or Moeller's glossitis). Synonym: bald tongue. (05 Mar 2000) |
| base of tongue | The posterior attached portion of the tongue. Synonym: radix linguae, base of tongue. (05 Mar 2000) |
| beet-tongue | Sometimes used of the tongue in pellagra, where intense erythema appears, first at the tip, then along the edges, and finally over the dorsum; there may be pain and increased elevation; the shiny appearance results from oedema, not atrophy, except in chronic pellagra. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bifid tongue | A structural defect of the tongue in which the extremity is divided longitudinally for a greater or lesser distance. See: diglossia. Synonym: cleft tongue. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bird's-tongue | <botany> The knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| black tongue | In canines, a disorder associated with a deficency of nicotinic acid. Black to yellowish brown discoloration of the dorsum of the tongue due to staining by exogenous material such as the components of tobacco; usually superimposed on hairy tongue. Synonym: lingua nigra, melanoglossia, nigrities linguae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| black-tongue disease | A disease of dogs similar to human pellagra and due to niacin deficiency. (05 Mar 2000) |