| VMAT | vesicular monoamine transformer |
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| VR | right arm [electrode]; valve replacement; variable ratio; vascular resistance; venous reflux; venous... |
| VS | vaccination scar; vaccine serotype; vagal stimulation; vasospasm; venesection; ventricular septum; v... |
| VSV | vesicular stomatitis virus |
| VTR | variable tandem repeats; videotape recording; vesicular transport system |
| spider mole | spider angioma |
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| invasive mole | chorioadenoma destruens |
| false mole | <gynaecology> An intrauterine polyp. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fleshy mole | A uterine mass occurring after foetal death and consisting of blood clots, foetal membranes, and placenta. Synonym: blood mole, carneous mole. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vesicular | 1. Composed of or relating to small, saclike bodies. 2. Pertaining to or made up of vesicles on the skin. Origin: L. Vesicula = a little bladder (18 Nov 1997) |
| vesicular appendage | A small fluid-filled cyst attached by a slender stalk to the fimbriated end of the uterine tube; a vestigial remnant of the embryonic mesonephric duct. Synonym: appendix vesiculosa, Morgagni's hydatid, morgagnian cyst, stalked hydatid, vesicular appendage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vesicular appendices of uterine tube | A small fluid-filled cyst attached by a slender stalk to the fimbriated end of the uterine tube; a vestigial remnant of the embryonic mesonephric duct. Synonym: appendix vesiculosa, Morgagni's hydatid, morgagnian cyst, stalked hydatid, vesicular appendage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vesicular exanthema | An extinct disease of swine caused by vesicular exanthema virus of swine, a member of the family Caliciviridae; it closely resembled foot-and-mouth disease and, in swine, was characterised by fever, loss of weight, and vesicles on the snout, tongue, and feet. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vesicular exanthema of swine | A calicivirus infection of swine characterised by hydropic degeneration of the oral and cutaneous epithelia. (12 Dec 1998) |
| vesicular exanthema of swine virus | The type species of the genus calicivirus, an RNA virus infecting pigs. The resulting infection is an acute febrile disease which is clinically indistinguishable from foot and mouth disease. Transmission is by contaminated food. (12 Dec 1998) |
| vesicular keratitis | Keratitis with coalescence of areas of epithelial corneal oedema. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vesicular keratopathy | Corneal epithelial oedema with formation of vacuoles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vesicular murmur | The respiratory murmur heard on auscultating over the normal lung. Synonym: respiratory murmur, vesicular murmur. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vesicular ovarian follicle | A follicle in which the oocyte attains its full size and is surrounded by an extracellular glycoprotein layer (zona pellucida) that separates it from a peripheral layer of follicular cells permeated by one or more fluid-filled antra; the theca of the follicle develops into internal and external layers. Synonym: folliculus ovaricus vesiculosus, graafian follicle, secondary follicle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vesicular rale | A fine bubbling or crackling sound produced by air mixing with very thin secretions in the smaller bronchial tubes. Synonym: vesicular rale. (05 Mar 2000) |