| CISC | complex-instructional-set computing |
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| MDS | Master of Dental Surgery; maternal deprivation syndrome; medical data screening; medical data system... |
| MDS+ | minimum data set (plus) |
| NMDS | nursing minimum data set |
| PASA | para-aminosalicylic acid; primary acquired sideroblastic anemia; proximal articular set angle |
| Mogen clamp | <instrument, surgery> A circumcision instrument. Origin: Hebrew star (05 Mar 2000) |
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| mosquito clamp | A small haemostat, straight or curved, with or without teeth; used to hold delicate tissue or for haemostasis. Synonym: mosquito forceps. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Cope's clamp | A clamp used in excision of colon and rectum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Crafoord clamp | A clamp used in heart, lung, and vascular operations. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Crile's clamp | A clamp for temporary stoppage of blood flow. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Potts' clamp | A fine-toothed, multiple-point, vascular fixation clamp that imparts limited trauma to the vessel while securely holding it. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ochsner clamp | A straight haemostat with teeth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Joseph's clamp | A clamp used after rhinoplasty to maintain or improve the alignment of the bony support of the nose. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Kelly clamp | A curved haemostat without teeth, introduced for gynecological surgery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Kocher clamp | A heavy, straight haemostat with interlocking teeth on the tip. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Fogarty clamp | A clamp with rubber-shod blades having serrated surfaces, to provide an atraumatic grip on tissues. (05 Mar 2000) |
| liver-shod clamp | A clamp with jaws covered by cloth to prevent injury to structures such as bowel when clamp is closed. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acorn-tipped catheter | A catheter used in ureteropyelography to occlude the ureteral orifice and prevent backflow from the ureter during and following the injection of an opaque medium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| angiography catheter | A thin-walled tube suitable for percutaneous puncture and powered injection of contrast media for radiography; catheter diameter is measured on the French scale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| balloon catheter | A catheter used in arterial embolectomy or to float into the pulmonary artery. (05 Mar 2000) |