| AOM | acute otitis media; alternatives of management; arthroophthalmopathy; azoxymethane |
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| BOM | bilateral otitis media |
| BOMA | bilateral otitis media, acute |
| CAOM | chronic adhesive otitis media |
| COM | chronic otitis media; College of Osteopathic Medicine; computer-output microfilm |
| empyema, tuberculous | Empyema due to mycobacterium tuberculosis. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| tuberculous | Relating to or affected by tuberculosis. Compare: tubercular. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tuberculous abscess | An abscess caused by the tubercle bacillus. Synonym: cold abscess. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tuberculous bronchopneumonia | An acute form of pulmonary tuberculosis characterised by widespread patchy consolidations. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tuberculous enteritis | Enteric tuberculosis that may occur in the absence of obvious pulmonary t.; may be caused by bovine tuberculosis contracted through drinking of unpasteurised milk or swallowing of tubercle bacilli expectorated from cavitary lesions in the lung. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tuberculous lymphadenitis | Lymphadenitis resulting from infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis; tuberculosis of the lymph nodes. Synonym: tuberculosis lymphadenitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tuberculous meningitis | Inflammation of the cerebral leptomeninges marked by the presence of granulomatous inflammation; it is usually confined to the base of the brain (basilar meningitis, internal hydrocephalus) and is accompanied in children by an accumulation of spinal fluid in the ventricles (acute hydrocephalus). Synonym: cerebral tuberculosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tuberculous nephritis | Nephritis, mainly interstitial, due to the tubercle bacillus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tuberculous pericarditis | Pericarditis caused by tuberculosis infection. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tuberculous peritonitis | <radiology> Aetiology: haematogenous spread, rupture of mesenteric node, Types: wet: exudative ascites, dry: tuberculous adenopathy and adhesions, fibrotic: abdominal mass with separation and fixation of bowel, CT: high density ascites (30 HU), peripancreatic and mesenteric adenopathy with low density, centres (caseous necrosis), irregular soft tissue density of omemtum, ** tuberculosis: gastrointestinal manifestations (12 Dec 1998) |
| tuberculous rheumatism | An inflammatory condition of the joints or fibrous tissues during the course of tuberculosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tuberculous spondylitis | Tuberculous infection of the spine associated with a sharp angulation of the spine at the point of disease. Synonym: Pott's disease, spondylarthrocace, spondylocace, trachelocyrtosis, trachelokyphosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tuberculous wart | A tuberculous skin lesion having a warty surface with a chronic inflammatory base seen on the hands in adults and lower extremities in children, with marked hypersensitivity to tuberculous antigens. See: postmortem wart. Synonym: lupus papillomatosus, lupus verrucosus, tuberculous wart, verrucous scrofuloderma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| abrasive media | <microscopy> Extremely hard materials (Diamond, SiC, Al2O3 etc.), usually in a very fine particulate form (less than 15 micrometres), used in the initial stages of specimen preparation to grind and polish samples to the desired thickness or finish. (05 Aug 1998) |
| aerotitis media | See Aerotitis. (12 Dec 1998) |