| AI | accidental injury; accidentally incurred; adiposity index; aggregation index; allergy and immunology... |
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| A&I | allergy and immunology |
| FACAI | Fellow of the American College of Allergy and Immunology |
| JCAI | Joint Council of Allergy and Immunology |
| ACLPS | Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists |
| diagnostic services | Organised services for the purpose of providing diagnosis to promote and maintain health. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| diagnostic specificity | The probability (P) that, given the absence of disease (D), a normal test result (T) excludes disease; i.e., P(T/D). (05 Mar 2000) |
| diagnostic techniques, cardiovascular | Methods and procedures for the diagnosis of diseases or dysfunction of the cardiovascular system or its organs or demonstration of their physiological processes. (12 Dec 1998) |
| diagnostic techniques, digestive system | Methods and procedures for the diagnosis of diseases or dysfunction of the digestive system or its organs or demonstration of their physiological processes. (12 Dec 1998) |
| diagnostic techniques, endocrine | Methods and procedures for the diagnosis of diseases or dysfunction of the endocrine glands or demonstration of their physiological processes. (12 Dec 1998) |
| diagnostic techniques, neurological | Methods and procedures for the diagnosis of diseases of the nervous system, central and peripheral, or demonstration of neurologic function or dysfunction. (12 Dec 1998) |
| diagnostic techniques, ophthalmological | Methods and procedures for the diagnosis of diseases of the eye or of vision disorders. (12 Dec 1998) |
| diagnostic techniques, otological | Methods and procedures for the diagnosis of diseases of the ear or of hearing disorders or demonstration of hearing acuity or loss. (12 Dec 1998) |
| diagnostic techniques, radioisotope | Any diagnostic evaluation using radioactive (unstable) isotopes. This diagnosis includes many nuclear medicine procedures as well as radioimmunoassay tests. (12 Dec 1998) |
| diagnostic techniques, respiratory system | Methods and procedures for the diagnosis of diseases of the respiratory tract or its organs. It includes respiratory function tests. (12 Dec 1998) |
| diagnostic techniques, surgical | Methods and procedures for the diagnosis of disease or dysfunction by examination of the pathological site or operative field during surgical intervention. (12 Dec 1998) |
| diagnostic techniques, urological | Methods and procedures for the diagnosis of diseases or dysfunction of the urinary tract or its organs or demonstration of its physiological processes. (12 Dec 1998) |
| diagnostic tests, routine | Diagnostic procedures, such as laboratory tests and X-rays, routinely performed on all individuals or specified categories of individuals in a specified situation, e.g., patients being admitted to the hospital. These include routine tests administered to neonates. (12 Dec 1998) |
| diagnostic ultrasound | The use of ultrasound to obtain images for medical diagnostic purposes, employing frequencies ranging from 1.6 to about 10 MHz. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Addison's clinical planes | A series of plane's used as landmarks in thoracoabdominal topography; the trunk is divided vertically by a median plane from the upper border of the manubrium of the sternum to the pubic symphysis, by a lateral plane drawn vertically on either side through a point half way between the anterior superior iliac spine and the median plane at the interspinal plane, and by an interspinal plane passing vertically through the anterior superior iliac spine on either side; transversely the trunk is divided by a transthoracic plane passing across the thorax 3.2 cm above the lower border of the body of the sternum, by a transpyloric plane midway between the jugular notch of the sternum and the pubic symphysis, corresponding to the disc between the first and second lumbar vertebrae, and by an intertubercular plane passing through the iliac tubercles and cutting usually the fifth lumbar vertebra; the plane's formed on these lines, and also on transverse plane's cutting the upper edge of the manubrium and the upper edge of the pubic symphysis, constitute the clinical plane's of Addison. (05 Mar 2000) |