| CCP-SLP | Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech Language Pathology |
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| ClP | clinical pathology |
| DCP | dicalcium phosphate; Diploma in Clinical Pathology; Diploma in Clinical Psychology; District Communi... |
| DipClinPath | Diploma in Clinical Pathology |
| FOP | fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva; forensic pathology |
| cellular pathology | The interpretation of diseases in terms of cellular alterations, i.e., the ways in which cells fail to maintain homeostasis, sometimes used as a synonym for cytopathology. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| medical pathology | Pathology pertaining to various diseases not suitable for treatment by surgery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| clinical pathology | Any part of the medical practice of pathology as it pertains to the care of patients, the subspecialty in pathology concerned with the theoretical and technical aspects (i.e., the methods or procedures) of chemistry, immunohematology, microbiology, parasitology, immunology, haematology, and other fields as they pertain to the diagnosis of disease and the care of patients, as well as to the prevention of disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| molecular pathology | The study of biochemical and biophysical cellular mechanisms as the basic factors in disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| comparative pathology | The pathology of diseases of animals, especially in relation to human pathology. (05 Mar 2000) |
| humoral pathology | The thesis that disorders in the fluids of the body, especially the blood, are the basic factors in disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| speech-language pathology | The study of speech or language disorders and their diagnosis and correction. (12 Dec 1998) |
| speech pathology | The science concerned with functional and organic speech defects and disorders. (05 Mar 2000) |
| surgical pathology | A field in anatomical pathology concerned with examination of tissues removed from living patients for the purpose of diagnosis of disease and guidance in the care of patients. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dental pathology | The branch of dentistry concerned with the aetiology, pathogenesis, and clinical, gross, and microscopic aspects of oral and paraoral disease, including oral soft tissues, the teeth, jaws, and salivary glands. Synonym: dental pathology. (05 Mar 2000) |
| oral pathology | The branch of dentistry concerned with the aetiology, pathogenesis, and clinical, gross, and microscopic aspects of oral and paraoral disease, including oral soft tissues, the teeth, jaws, and salivary glands. Synonym: dental pathology. (05 Mar 2000) |
| functional pathology | Pathology pertaining to abnormalities in function of a tissue, organ, or part, with or without associated changes in structure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lupus glomerulonephritis-pathology | Patient survival and preservation of renal function are predictable from renal pathology as demonstrated by biopsy and defined by the histological classification of the International Study of Kidney Disease in Children/World Health Organization (ISKDC/WHO). Semi-quantitative indices of nephron loss (chronicity index) and activity of acute potentially reversible inflammation (activity index) are not predictive of individual outcome, renal failure or death in patients with aggressively treated SLE GN. (05 Mar 2000) |
| abstracting and indexing | Shortening or summarizing of documents; assigning of descriptors for referencing documents. (12 Dec 1998) |
| academies and institutes | Organizations representing specialised fields which are accepted as authoritative; may be non-governmental, university or an independent research organization, e.g., national academy of sciences, brookings institution, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |