| ASAAD | American Society for the Advancement of Anesthesia in Dentistry |
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| ASB | American Society of Bacteriologists; anencephaly-spina bifida [syndrome]; anesthesia standby; Anxiet... |
| CLA | cerebellar ataxia; Certified Laboratory Assistant; cervicolinguoaxial; contralateral local anesthesi... |
| CLE | centrilobular emphysema; continuous lumbar epidural [anesthesia] |
| CPRAM | controlled partial rebreathing anesthesia method |
| therapeutic index | The ratio of LD50 to ED50, used in quantitative comparison of drugs. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| therapeutic iridectomy | An iridectomy performed for the prevention or cure of disease, e.g., angle-closure glaucoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| therapeutic malaria | Intentionally induced malaria, formerly used against neurosyphilis and certain other paralytic diseases; the mechanism is thought to be immunological, with Plasmodium antibodies cross-reacting against the spirochetes or other agents. (05 Mar 2000) |
| therapeutic pessimism | A disbelief in the curative virtues of remedies in general and especially of drugs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| therapeutic pneumothorax | Pneumothorax designed to create some pulmonary parenchymal collapse, diaphragmatic immobilization, or both. (05 Mar 2000) |
| therapeutic ratio | The ratio of the maximally tolerated dose of a drug to the minimal curative or effective dose; LD50 divided by ED50. (05 Mar 2000) |
| therapeutic touch | The placing of the hands of the healer upon the person to be cured. (12 Dec 1998) |
| therapeutic vaccine | An injected therapy consisting of synthetic HIV antigen (for example, gp160) that is administered to people who already have HIV It is supposed to heighten and broaden the immune response to HIV, helping to halt disease progression. (09 Oct 1997) |
| embolization, therapeutic | A method of haemostasis utilizing various agents such as gelfoam, silastic, metal, glass, or plastic pellets, autologous clot, fat, and muscle as emboli. It has been used in the treatment of spinal cord and cerebral arteriovenous malformations, renal arteriovenous fistulas, gastrointestinal bleeding, epistaxis, hypersplenism, certain highly vascular tumours, traumatic rupture of blood vessels, and control of operative haemorrhage. (12 Dec 1998) |