| Rom | Romberg [sign] |
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| SSI | segmental sequential irradiation; shoulder subluxation inhibition; small-scale integration; Social S... |
| VS | vaccination scar; vaccine serotype; vagal stimulation; vasospasm; venesection; ventricular septum; v... |
| WES | wall echo sign; work environment scale |
| ABO | Three Main Blood Types |
| three-lobed | Having three lobes. <botany> Three-lobed leaf, a leaf divided into three parts, the sinuses extending not more than half way to the middle, and either the parts of the sinuses being rounded. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| three-nerved | Having three nerves. <botany> Three-nerved leaf, a leaf having three distinct and prominent ribs, or nerves, extending from the base. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| three-parted | Divided into, or consisting of, three parts; tripartite. <botany> Three-parted leaf, a leaf divided into three parts down to the base, but not entirely separate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| three-pointed | <botany> Having three acute or setigerous points; tricuspidate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| three-sided | Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three-sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| echocardiography, three-dimensional | Echocardiography amplified by the addition of depth to the conventional two-dimensional echocardiography visualizing only the length and width of the heart. Three-dimensional ultrasound imaging was first described in 1961 but its application to echocardiography did not take place until 1974. (mayo clin proc 1993;68:221-40) (12 Dec 1998) |
| Aaron's sign | <clinical sign> In acute appendicitis, a referred pain or feeling of distress in the epigastrium or precordial region on continuous firm pressure over McBurney's point. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Abadie's sign of tabes dorsalis | Insensibility to pressure over the tendo achillis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Abrahams' sign | <clinical sign> An obsolete sign: Rales and other adventitious sounds, changes in the respiratory murmurs, and increase in the whispered sound can be heard on auscultation over the acromial end of the clavicle some time before they become audible at the apex; heard primarily in pulmonary tuberculosis affecting the apical portion of the lung, a dull-flat note, i.e., one between the normal dullness at the right apex and absolute flatness, heard on percussion in that region, indicating progress from incipient to advanced tuberculosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| accessory sign | <clinical sign> A finding frequently but not consistently present in a disease. Synonym: assident sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Allis' sign | <clinical sign> In fracture of the neck of the femur, the trochanter rides up, relaxing the fascia lata, so that the finger can be sunk deeply between the great trochanter and the iliac crest. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Amoss' sign | <clinical sign> In painful flexion of the spine, it is necessary to support a sitting position by extending the arms behind the torso with the weight placed on the hands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Anghelescu's sign | <clinical sign> In vertebral tuberculosis, painful or impossible flexion of the spine when the patient attempts to rest weight on the heels and occiput. (05 Mar 2000) |
| antecedent sign | <clinical sign> A sign that appears during the prodrome of a disease. Synonym: antecedent sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| assident sign | <clinical sign> A finding frequently but not consistently present in a disease. Synonym: assident sign. (05 Mar 2000) |