| CSB | contaminated small bowel; craniosynostosis, Boston type |
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| 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... |
| SBE | breast self-examination; short below-elbow [cast]; shortness of breath on exertion; small bowel enem... |
| localised small bowel disease | <radiology> Crohn's, tumour (including lymphoma), bleed/oedema (12 Dec 1998) |
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| thick | 1. Measuring in the third dimension other than length and breadth, or in general dimension other than length; said of a solid body; as, a timber seven inches thick. "Were it as thick as is a branched oak." (Chaucer) "My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins." (1 Kings xii. 10) 2. Having more depth or extent from one surface to its opposite than usual; not thin or slender; as, a thick plank; thick cloth; thick paper; thick neck. 3. Dense; not thin; inspissated; as, thick vapors. Also used figuratively; as, thick darkness. "Make the gruel thick and slab." (Shak) 4. Not transparent or clear; hence, turbid, muddy, or misty; as, the water of a river is apt to be thick after a rain. "In a thick, misty day." 5. Abundant, close, or crowded in space; closely set; following in quick succession; frequently recurring. "The people were gathered thick together." (Luke xi. 29) "Black was the forest; thick with beech it stood." (Dryden) 6. Not having due distinction of syllables, or good articulation; indistinct; as, a thick utterance. 7. Deep; profound; as, thick sleep. 8. Dull; not quick; as, thick of fearing. "His dimensions to any thick sight were invincible." (Shak) 9. Intimate; very friendly; familiar. "We have been thick ever since." (T. Hughes) Thick is often used in the formation of compounds, most of which are self-explaining; as, thick-barred, thick-bodied, thick-coming, thick-cut, thick-flying, thick-growing, thick-leaved, thick-lipped, thick-necked, thick-planted, thick-ribbed, thick-shelled, thick-woven, and the like. Thick register. See the Note under Register. Thick stuff, all plank that is more than four inches thick and less than twelve. Synonym: Dense, close, compact, solid, gross, coarse. Origin: OE. Thicke, AS. Icce; akin to D. Dik, OS. Thikki, OHG. Dicchi thick, dense, G. Dick thick, Icel. Ykkr, jokkr, and probably to Gael. & Ir. Tiugh. Cf. Tight. To thicken. "The nightmare Life-in-death was she, who thicks man's blood with cold." (Coleridge) Origin: Cf. AS. Iccian. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| thick filament | <cell biology> Bipolar myosin II filaments (12-14nm diameter, 1.6m long) found in striated muscle. Myosin filaments elsewhere are often referred to as thick filaments, although their length may be considerably less. The myosin heads project from the thick filament in a regular fashion. There is a central bare zone without projecting heads, the core being formed from antiparallel arrays of LMM regions of the myosin heavy chains. Thick filaments will self assemble in vitro under the right ionic conditions. (18 Nov 1997) |
| thick-knee | <zoology> A stone curlew. See Stone. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| thick-skinned | Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| thick wind | <veterinary> A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| thick-winded | <veterinary> Affected with thick wind. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| adipose folds of the pleura | Lobules of fat enveloped in the pleura, chiefly in the neighborhood of the costomediastinal sinus. Synonym: adipose folds of the pleura. (05 Mar 2000) |
| alar folds | Winglike lateral fringes or expansions of the plica synovialis infrapatellaris. Synonym: ligamenta alaria, plicae alares, alar ligaments, odontoid ligament. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ampullary folds of uterine tube | One of the folds of mucous membrane at the fimbriated extremity of the uterine tube. Synonym: plicae ampullares tubae uterinae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| caecal folds | The two peritoneal folds that border the retrocaecal fossa. Synonym: plicae caecales. (05 Mar 2000) |
| palmate folds | The two longitudinal ridges, anterior and posterior, in the mucous membrane lining the cervix uteri, from which numerous secondary folds, or rugae, branch off. Synonym: plicae palmatae, arbor vitae uteri, lyra uterina. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gastric folds | Characteristic folds of the gastric mucosa, especially evident when the stomach is contracted. Synonym: plicae gastricae, gastric folds, ruga gastrica. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gastropancreatic folds | The folds of peritoneum in the omental bursa that encase the hepatic and left gastric arteries as these vessels pass toward their destinations. Synonym: plicae gastropancreaticae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rectal folds | The three or four crescentic folds placed horizontally in the rectal mucous membrane; the superior rectal fold is situated near the beginning of the rectum on the left side; the middle rectal fold (Nelaton's fold) is most prominent and consistent and projects from the right side about 8 cm above the anus (approximately the level of the floor of the rectouterine or rectovesical pouch); the inferior rectal fold is on the left side about 5 cm above the anus. Synonym: plicae transversales recti, Houston's folds, Houston's valves, Kohlrausch's valves, plicae recti, rectal folds, rectal valves. (05 Mar 2000) |