| VR | right arm [electrode]; valve replacement; variable ratio; vascular resistance; venous reflux; venous... |
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| 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 |
| crackling rale | Very fine sounds produced by fluid in very small airways in pneumonia or congestive heart failure. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| crepitant 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) |
| sibilant rale | A whistling sound caused by air moving through a viscid secretion narrowing the lumen of a bronchus. Synonym: whistling rale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Skoda's rale | A rale in a bronchus heard through an area of consolidated tissue in pneumonia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sonorous rale | A cooing or snoring sound often produced by the vibration of a projecting mass of viscid secretion in a large bronchus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| subcrepitant rale | A very fine crepitant rale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dry rale | A harsh or musical breath sound produced by a constriction in a bronchial tube or the presence of a viscid secretion narrowing the lumen. (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) |