| SAD | Scale of Anxiety and Depression; seasonal affective disorder; Self-Assessment Depression [scale]; se... |
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| HRS | Hamilton Rating Scale; Hamman-Rich syndrome; health and rehabilitative services; hepatorenal syndrom... |
| CARS | Childhood Autism Rating Scale; Children's Affective Rating Scale; cysteinyl-transfer ribonucleic aci... |
| CPRS | Children's Psychiatric Rating Scale; Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale |
| NRS | neurobehavioral rating scale; normal rabbit serum; normal reference serum; numerical rating scale |
| endogenous depression | <psychiatry> A clinical syndrome that includes a persistent sad mood or loss of interest in activities that persists for at least 2 weeks in the absence of external precipitants. This should not be confused with a grief reaction (death of loved one). Features may include change in eating habits, insomnia, early morning wakening, lack of interest, depressed mood, fatigue and suicidal thoughts. (27 Sep 1997) |
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| exogenous depression | Similar signs and symptoms as endogenous depression but the precipitating factors are social or environmental and outside the individual. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lingual salivary gland depression | An indentation on the lingual surface of the mandible within which a portion of the submandibular gland lies; it appears radiographically as a sharply circumscribed ovoid radiolucency between the mandibular canal and the inferior border of the posterior mandible. Synonym: Stafne bone cyst, static bone cyst. (05 Mar 2000) |
| abbreviated injury scale | Classification system for assessing impact injury severity developed and published by the american association for automotive medicine. It is the system of choice for coding single injuries and is the foundation for methods assessing multiple injuries or for assessing cumulative effects of more than one injury. These include maximum ais (mais), injury severity score (iss), and probability of death score (pods). (12 Dec 1998) |
| absolute scale | An obsolete term for Kelvin scale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| activities of daily living scale | A scale to score physical activity and its limitations, based on answers to simple questions about mobility, self-care, grooming, etc; widely used in geriatrics, rheumatology, etc. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Angstrom scale | A table of wavelengths of a large number of light rays corresponding to as many Fraunhofer's lines in the spectrum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Baume scale | A hydrometer scale for determining the specific gravity of liquids heavier and lighter than water, respectively: for liquids lighter than water, divide 140 by 130 plus the Baume degree; for liquids heavier than water, divide 145 by 145 minus the Baume degree. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Binet scale | A measure of intelligence designed for both children and adults. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Binet-Simon scale | Forerunner of individual intelligence tests, particularly the Stanford-Binet intelligence scale, and sometimes referred to as the Binet scale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Brazelton's Neonatal Behavioural Assessment Scale | A scale used by obstetricians, paediatricians, and paediatric psychologists to assess the sensory, motor, emotional and physical development of the neonate, usually beginning at birth or in the first month of life. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gaffky scale | A numerical rating for the classification of tuberculosis according to the number of tubercle bacilli in the sputum, ranging from 1 (one to four organisms in the whole preparation) to 9 (an average of 100 per field). Synonym: Gaffky scale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Rankine scale | A thermometer scale in which each degree Rankine (캲ank) is equal to the Fahrenheit but applied to the absolute temperature scale with its zero point at absolute zero; 캲ank = 캟 + 459.67. (05 Mar 2000) |
| manifest anxiety scale | True-false questionnaire made up of items believed to indicate anxiety, in which the subject answers verbally the statement that describes him. (12 Dec 1998) |
| ratio scale | A scale that involves physical units and demonstrates their relations. (05 Mar 2000) |