| FDA | fluorescein diacetate; Food and Drug Administration; right frontoanterior [position of the fetus] |
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| FDCPA | Food, Drug, and Consumer Product Agency |
| FFDCA | Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act |
| AAPL | American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law |
| ASLM | American Society of Law and Medicine |
Zeune's law 맹인의 수는 적도에 가까운 열대지방에서 증가한다.
zidovudin
| food asthma | Asthma caused by allergic reaction to a dietary item. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| food ball | A gastric concretion formed of vegetable fibres, with the seeds and skins of fruits, and sometimes starch granules and fat globules. Synonym: food ball. Origin: phyto-+ bezoar (05 Mar 2000) |
| food-borne botulism | A form of botulism that results from the ingestion of clostridium botulinum spores or toxin. (27 Sep 1997) |
| food colouring agents | Natural or synthetic dyes used as colouring agents in processed foods. (12 Dec 1998) |
| food contamination | The presence in food of harmful, unpalatable, or otherwise objectionable foreign substances, e.g. Chemicals, microorganisms or diluents, before, during, or after processing or storage. (12 Dec 1998) |
| food deprivation | The withholding of food in a structured experimental situation. (12 Dec 1998) |
| food dispensers, automatic | Mechanical food dispensing machines. (12 Dec 1998) |
| food fever | A disorder seen primarily in childhood, consisting of a sudden rise of temperature accompanied by marked digestive disturbances, which lasts from a few days to several weeks; believed to be a form of food poisoning. (05 Mar 2000) |
| food, formulated | Food and dietary formulations including elemental (chemically defined formula) diets, synthetic and semisynthetic diets, space diets, weight-reduction formulas, tube-feeding diets, complete liquid diets, and supplemental liquid and solid diets. (12 Dec 1998) |
| food, fortified | Any food that has been supplemented with essential nutrients either in quantities that are greater than those present normally, or which are not present in the fortified food. The supplementation of cereals with iron and vitamins is an example of fortified food. Fortified food includes also enriched food to which various nutrients have been added to compensate for those essential nutrients removed by refinement or processing. (12 Dec 1998) |
| food habits | Acquired or learned food preferences. (12 Dec 1998) |
| food handling | Any aspect of the operations in the preparation, transport, storage, packaging, wrapping, exposure for sale, service, or delivery of food. (12 Dec 1998) |
| food hypersensitivity | Gastrointestinal disturbances, skin eruptions, or shock due to allergic reactions to allergens ingested in food. (12 Dec 1998) |
| food impaction | The forcible wedging of food between adjacent teeth during mastication, producing gingival recession and pocket formation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| food industry | The industry concerned with processing, preparing, preserving, distributing, and serving of foods and beverages. (12 Dec 1998) |