| NSFTD | normal spontaneous full-term delivery |
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| NSVD | normal spontaneous vaginal delivery |
| ROSC | return to spontaneous circulation |
| RSPK | recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis |
| SAB | Scientific Advisory Board; serum albumin; significant asymptomatic bacteriuria; sinoatrial block; So... |
| positive-negative pressure breathing | Inflation of the lungs with positive pressure and deflation with negative pressure by an automatic ventilator. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| pursed lips breathing | A technique in which air is inhaled slowly through the nose and mouth and exhaled slowly through pursed lips; used by patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to improve their breathing by increasing resistance to air flow, forcibly dilating small bronchi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shallow breathing | A type of breathing with abnormally low tidal volume. (05 Mar 2000) |
| stertorous breathing | Harsh, noisy breathing usually heard in an comatous patient. Synonym: stertorous breathing. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intermittent positive-pressure breathing | Application of positive pressure to the inspiratory phase of spontaneous respiration. See: controlled mechanical ventilation (12 Dec 1998) |
| kussmaul breathing | Air hunger. (12 Dec 1998) |
| remission, spontaneous | A spontaneous diminution or abatement of the symptoms of a disease. (12 Dec 1998) |
| rupture, spontaneous | Tear or break of an organ, vessel or other soft part of the body, occurring in the absence of external force. (12 Dec 1998) |
| presenile spontaneous gangrene | Gangrene occurring in middle life as a result of thromboangiitis obliterans. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spontaneous | 1. Proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proportion. 2. Proceeding from, or acting by, internal impulse, energy, or natural law, without external force; as, spontaneous motion; spontaneous growth. 3. Produced without being planted, or without human labour; as, a spontaneous growth of wood. Spontaneous combustion, combustion produced in a substance by the evolution of heat through the chemical action of its own elements; as, the spontaneous combustion of waste matter saturated with oil. Spontaneous generation. <biology> See Generation. Synonym: Voluntary, uncompelled, willing. Spontaneous, Voluntary. What is voluntary is the result of a volition, or act of choice; it therefore implies some degree of consideration, and may be the result of mere reason without excited feeling. What is spontaneous springs wholly from feeling, or a sudden impulse which admits of no reflection; as, a spontaneous burst of applause. Hence, the term is also applied to things inanimate when they are produced without the determinate purpose or care of man. "Abstinence which is but voluntary fasting, and . . . Exercise which is but voluntary labour." "Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their firstborn away." (Goldsmith) Sponta"neously, Sponta"neousness. Origin: L. Spontaneus, fr. Sponte of free will, voluntarily. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spontaneous abortion | The sudden unplanned evacuation of the uterus. (27 Sep 1997) |
| spontaneous agglutination | The non-specific clumping of organisms in saline related to lack of polar groups in electrolyte solution. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spontaneous amputation | Amputation as the result of a pathologic process rather than external trauma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spontaneous breech extraction | Delivery of a foetus in the breech presentation without extraction by the obstetrician. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spontaneous cephalic delivery | Unassisted expulsion of a foetus that presents by the head. (05 Mar 2000) |