| COME | chronic otitis media with effusion |
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| eff | effect; efferent; efficiency; effusion |
| MEE | measured energy expenditure; methylethyl ether; middle ear effusion; multilocus enzyme electrophores... |
| PF | pair feeding; peak flow; perfusion fluid; pericardial fluid; periosteal fibroblast; peritoneal fluid... |
| PFC | pair-fed control [mice]; patient-focused care; pelvic flexion contracture; perfluorocarbon; pericard... |
| MEE | Middle ear effusion |
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| OME | Otitis Media with Effusion |
| PE | Pleural effusion |
| PEL | Primary Effusion Lymphomas |
| tuberculous | Relating to or affected by tuberculosis. Compare: tubercular. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| 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) |
| pericardial | <anatomy> Of or pertaining to pericardium; situated around the heart. <physiology> Pericardial fluid, a serous fluid of a pale yellow colour contained in the pericardium. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pericardial branch of phrenic nerve | <anatomy, nerve> One of the branches of phrenic nerve distributed to the pericardium and adjacent mediastial parietal pleura. Synonym: ramus pericardiacus nervi phrenici. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pericardial branch of thoracic aorta | Small branches of thoracic aorta distributed to the pericardium, in the region of the oblique pericardial sinus, and to posterior mediastinal lymph nodes. Synonym: rami pericardiaci aortae thoracicae. (05 Mar 2000) |