| imho | in my humble(or honest) opinion |
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| EOA | effective orifice area; erosive osteoarthritis; esophageal obturator airway; examination, opinion, a... |
| HOS | health opinion survey; Holt-Oram syndrome; human osteosarcoma; hypoosmotic swelling [test] |
| NORC | National Opinion Research Center |
| SO | salpingo-oophorectomy; Schlatter-Osgood [test]; second opinion; sex offender; spheno-occipital [sync... |
| eddy current | <radiobiology> Electric current induced inside a conductor when the conductor (a) moves through a nonuniform magnetic field, or (b) experiences a change in the magnetic flux through its surface. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| eddy-current loss | <radiobiology> Energy loss due to eddy currents circulating in a resistive material. (09 Oct 1997) |
| toroidal current | <radiobiology> Current flowing in the toroidal direction (the long way) around a torus. (As distinct from poloidal currents flowing through the centre of the torus and around to the outside, the short way.) (09 Oct 1997) |
| labile current | An electrical current applied to the body by means of electrodes that are constantly shifted about. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acute infectious nonbacterial gastroenteritis | An epidemic, highly communicable but rather mild disease of sudden onset, caused by the epidemic gastroenteritis virus (especially Norwalk agent), with an incubation period of 16 to 48 hours and a duration of 1 to 2 days, which affects all age groups; infection is associated with some fever, abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, and headache, one or another of which may be predominant. Synonym: acute infectious nonbacterial gastroenteritis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| arthritis, infectious | Arthritis caused by bacteria, rickettsiae, mycoplasmas, viruses, fungi, or parasites. Bacterial arthritis is frequently caused by staphylococcus aureus, streptococcus pneumoniae, haemophilus influenzae, and neisseria gonorrhoeae. Viral arthritis is less common than bacterial arthritis and may be a manifestation of such viral diseases as mumps, rubella, hepatitis, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
| avian infectious encephalomyelitis | <veterinary> A disease of very young chicks caused by a picornavirus and characterised by tremor, ataxia, somnolence, and finally death. Synonym: epidemic tremor. (05 Mar 2000) |
| avian infectious laryngotracheitis virus | <virology> A herpesvirus causing avian infectious laryngotracheitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| canine infectious cyclic thrombocytopenia | An infection of dogs with the rickettsia Ehrlichia platys characterised by recurrent cyclic thrombocytopenia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vaccination, infectious hepatitis | See Vaccination, hepatitis a. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pregnancy complications, infectious | Infections occurring during the course of pregnancy, or pregnancy during the course of an infectious disease. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hepatitis, infectious | See Hepatitis A. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hepatitis, infectious canine | An adenovirus infection causing fever, oedema, vomiting, and diarrhoea in dogs, especially puppies. In foxes it causes acute encephalitis with convulsions, paralysis, coma, and death. (12 Dec 1998) |
| proteinaceous infectious particle | A proposed pathogen composedonly of protein with no detectable nucleic acid and which is responsible for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and kuru inhumans and scrapie in sheep. (09 Oct 1997) |
| spot test for infectious mononucleosis | A slide test widely used for the diagnosis of infectious mononucleosis, based on the principle that the heterophil antibodies that occur in the serum of patients with infectious mononucleosis are absorbed by beef red cells but not by guinea pig kidney cells; thus, when horse red cells (which provoke heterophil antibodies) are mixed with patient serum and agglutination occurs in the presence of beef red cells, the presumptive diagnosis is infectious mononucleosis. (05 Mar 2000) |