| MCAR | mixed cell agglutination reaction |
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| MLR | mean length response; middle latency response; mixed lymphocyte reaction |
| MPAS | mild perioxic acid Schiff [reaction] |
| MPR | mannose 6-phosphate receptor; marrow production rate; massive preretinal retraction; maximum pulse r... |
| MRT | magnetic resonance tomography; maximum relaxation time; median range score; median reaction time; me... |
| type III hypersensitivity reaction | An immunologic category of diseases evoked by the deposition of antigen-antibody or antigen-antibody-complement complexes on cell surfaces, with subsequent involvement of breakdown products of complement, platelets, and polymorphonuclear leukocytes, and development of vasculitis; nephritis is common. Arthus phenomenon and serum sickness are classic examples, but many other disorders, including most of the connective tissue disease's, may belong in this immunologic category; immune complex disease's can also occur during a variety of disease's of known aetiology, such as subacute bacterial endocarditis. See: autoimmune disease. Synonym: immune complex disorder, type III hypersensitivity reaction. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| eye-closure pupil reaction | A constriction of both pupils when an effort is made to close eyelids forcibly held apart. A variant of the pupil response to near vision. Synonym: Galassi's pupillary phenomenon, Gifford's reflex, lid-closure reaction, orbicularis phenomenon, orbicularis pupillary reflex, Piltz sign, Westphal's pupillary reflex, Westphal-Piltz phenomenon. (05 Mar 2000) |
| false-negative reaction | <statistics> An erroneous or mistakenly negative response. Negative test results in subjects who possess the attribute for which the test is conducted. The labeling of diseased persons as healthy when screening in the detection of disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| false-positive reaction | <statistics> An erroneous or mistakenly positive response. Positive test results in subjects who do not possess the attribute for which the test is conducted. The labeling of healthy persons as diseased when screening in the detection of disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Yorke's autolytic reaction | A test for paroxysmal haemoglobinuria; serum is placed in an ice chest and kept at 0캜 for 5 to 7 minutes, then in an incubator at 37캜 with erythrocytes for 1 hour, at which time, if the reaction is positive, haemolysis occurs; if the serum is kept at 1캜 for an hour and then placed in the incubator with erythrocytes there is little haemolysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| zero-order reaction | A reaction that proceeds at a particular rate independently of the concentration of the reactant or reactants. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Zimmermann reaction | A chemical reaction between an alkaline solution of meta-dinitrobenzene and an active methylene group (carbon-16) of 17-ketosteroids; it is the basis of the 17-ketosteroid assay t.; more generally, a reaction between methylene ketones and aromatic polynitro compounds in alkaline solutions. Synonym: Zimmermann test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| unimolecular reaction | A reaction involving a single molecule (e.g., decomposition, intramolecular rearrangement, intramolecular oxidation or reduction), even if a catalytic agent, such as acid or alkali, is present in large excess, on a molecular basis, or is not rate-determining; such reaction's are usually first-order reaction's. Compare: molecularity. Synonym: unimolecular reaction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Fenton reaction | The use of H2O2 and ferrous salts (Fenton's reagent) to oxidise alpha-hydroxy acids to alpha-keto acids or to convert 1,2-glycols to alpha-hydroxy aldehydes, the formation of OH-, OH-, and Fe3+ from the nonenzymatic reaction of Fe2+ with H2O2; a reaction of importance in the oxidative stress in blood cells and various tissues. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Fernandez reaction | A delayed hypersensitivity lepromin reaction, similar to a tuberculin reaction, at the site of intradermal injection of Dharmendra antigen in a lepromin test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ferric chloride reaction of epinephrine | An intense emerald green colour in a neutral or slightly acid solution of epinephrine when ferric chloride is added to it; a reaction typical of catechols. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Feulgen reaction | <procedure> A specific staining procedure for DNA: mild acid hydrolysis makes the aldehyde group of deoxyribose available to react with Schiff's reagent to give a purple colour. (18 Nov 1997) |
| fight or flight reaction | The theory advanced by Walter Cannon, that in the autonomic nervous system and the effectors connected with it, the organism in situations of danger requiring either fight or flight is provided with a check-and-drive mechanism that puts it in readiness to meet emergencies with undivided energy output. Also known as the emergency theory. (05 Mar 2000) |
| first-order reaction | A reaction the rate of which is proportional to the concentration of the single substance undergoing change; radioactive decay is a first-order process, defined by the equation -(dN/dt)=kN, where N is the number of atoms subject to decay (reaction), t is time, and k is the first-order decay (reaction) constant, i.e., the fraction of all atoms decaying per unit of time. See: decay constant, order. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fixation reaction | <immunology> Binding of complement as a result of its interaction with immune complexes (the classical pathway) or particular surfaces (alternative pathway). (18 Nov 1997) |