| PaO2 | partial oxygen tension in arterial blood; partial pressure of oxygen in arterial blood |
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| PBF | peripheral blod flow; placental blood flow; pulmonary blood flow |
| PBL | peripheral blood leukocyte; peripheral blood lymphocyte; problem-based learning |
| PBV | predicted blood volume; pulmonary blood volume |
| PRBC | packed red blood cells; placental residual blood volume |
| Loeffler's blood culture medium | A culture medium consisting of beef blood serum, sheep blood serum, and beef bouillon containing peptone, glucose, and sodium chloride; used for the isolation of Corynebacterium diphtheriae. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| lutheran blood-group system | A complex blood group system having pairs of alternate antigens and amorphic genes, but also subject to a dominant independently segregating repressor. (12 Dec 1998) |