| ABC | absolute basophil count; absolute bone conduction; acalculous biliary colic; acid balance control; a... |
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| CINCA | chronic infantile neurological cutaneous and auricular [syndrome] |
| CHILD | congenital hemidysplasia with ichthyosiform erythroderma and limb defects [syndrome] |
| CTCL | Cutaneous T Cell Lymphoma |
| MC | 1) Musculo-Cutaneous 2) Mixed Cellularity |
| inferior limb | The hip, thigh, leg, ankle, and foot. Synonym: membrum inferius, inferior limb, lower extremity, pelvic limb. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| isolated limb perfusion | <oncology, procedure> Chemotherapy treatment in which blood is taken from a patient, pumped through a machine that adds anticancer drugs to the blood, then returned to the limb being treated. (15 Oct 1997) |
| thoracic limb | The shoulder, arm, forearm, wrist, and hand. Synonym: membrum superius, superior limb, thoracic limb, upper extremity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| joints of free inferior limb | The joints uniting the bones of the free inferior limb to one another and to the pelvic girdle; they are the hip joint, knee joint, tibiofibular joints, and the joints of the ankle and foot. Synonym: articulationes membri inferioris liberi, joints of free inferior limb, juncturae membri inferioris liberi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| joints of free lower limb | The joints uniting the bones of the free inferior limb to one another and to the pelvic girdle; they are the hip joint, knee joint, tibiofibular joints, and the joints of the ankle and foot. Synonym: articulationes membri inferioris liberi, joints of free inferior limb, juncturae membri inferioris liberi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| joints of free superior limb | The joints uniting the bones of the free superior limb girdle; they are the shoulder joint, elbow joint, radioulnar joints, and joints of the wrist and hand. Synonym: articulationes membri superioris liberi, joints of free superior limb, juncturae membri superioris liberi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| joints of free upper limb | The joints uniting the bones of the free superior limb girdle; they are the shoulder joint, elbow joint, radioulnar joints, and joints of the wrist and hand. Synonym: articulationes membri superioris liberi, joints of free superior limb, juncturae membri superioris liberi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| joints of inferior limb girdle | The joints that unite the sacrum and the two hip bones to form the pelvic girdle; these are the sacroiliac joints, the pubic symphysis, the sacrotuberal and sacrospinal ligaments, and the obturator membrane. Synonym: articulationes cinguli membri inferioris, joints of inferior limb girdle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| joints of superior limb girdle | The joints uniting the scapulae and clavicles to each other and the latter to the sternum forming the superior limb girdle; these are the acromioclavicular and the sternoclavicular joints. Synonym: articulationes cinguli membri superioris, joints of superior limb girdle, juncturae cinguli membri superioris. (05 Mar 2000) |
| upper limb | The shoulder, arm, forearm, wrist, and hand. Synonym: membrum superius, superior limb, thoracic limb, upper extremity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| flexor retinaculum of lower limb | A wide band passing from the medial malleolus to the medial and upper border of the calcaneus and to the plantar surface as far as the navicular bone; it holds in place the tendons of the tibialis posterior, flexor digitorum longus, and flexor hallucis longus. Synonym: retinaculum musculorum flexorum, laciniate ligament, ligamentum laciniatum, retinaculum of flexor muscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lateral limb | Limb or leg-like portion of a structure, farthest from midline. Synonym: crus laterale, lateral limb. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lateral surface of lower limb | The lateral surface of the inferior limb. Synonym: facies lateralis membri inferioris. (05 Mar 2000) |
| limb | A leg or arm. A branch of a tree. The upper, free, spreading portion of a corolla or perianth that is connate at the base. (09 Oct 1997) |
| limb bud | The limbs of vertebrates start as outpushings of mesenchyme surrounded by a simple epithelium. The distal region is referred to as the progress zone. There has been extensive study of positional information within the limb bud that determines, for example: the proximal distal pattern of bone development and the anterior posterior specification of digits. (18 Nov 1997) |