| CISC | complex-instructional-set computing |
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| MDS | Master of Dental Surgery; maternal deprivation syndrome; medical data screening; medical data system... |
| MDS+ | minimum data set (plus) |
| NMDS | nursing minimum data set |
| PASA | para-aminosalicylic acid; primary acquired sideroblastic anemia; proximal articular set angle |
| Mogen clamp | <instrument, surgery> A circumcision instrument. Origin: Hebrew star (05 Mar 2000) |
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| mosquito clamp | A small haemostat, straight or curved, with or without teeth; used to hold delicate tissue or for haemostasis. Synonym: mosquito forceps. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Cope's clamp | A clamp used in excision of colon and rectum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Crafoord clamp | A clamp used in heart, lung, and vascular operations. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Crile's clamp | A clamp for temporary stoppage of blood flow. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Potts' clamp | A fine-toothed, multiple-point, vascular fixation clamp that imparts limited trauma to the vessel while securely holding it. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ochsner clamp | A straight haemostat with teeth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Joseph's clamp | A clamp used after rhinoplasty to maintain or improve the alignment of the bony support of the nose. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Kelly clamp | A curved haemostat without teeth, introduced for gynecological surgery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Kocher clamp | A heavy, straight haemostat with interlocking teeth on the tip. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Fogarty clamp | A clamp with rubber-shod blades having serrated surfaces, to provide an atraumatic grip on tissues. (05 Mar 2000) |
| liver-shod clamp | A clamp with jaws covered by cloth to prevent injury to structures such as bowel when clamp is closed. (05 Mar 2000) |
| adoptive transfer | Form of passive immunization where previously sensitised immunologic agents (cells or serum) are transferred to non-immune recipients. When transfer of cells is used as a therapy for the treatment of neoplasms, it is called adoptive immunotherapy (immunotherapy, adoptive). (12 Dec 1998) |
| gamete intra-fallopian transfer | <gynaecology> Gamete intra-fallopian transfer is a technique that involves combining eggs and sperm outside of the body and immediately placing them into the fallopian tubes to achieve fertilization. A technique that came into use in the mid-1980's for assisted conception in infertile women with normal fallopian tubes. The protocol consists of hormonal stimulation of the ovaries, followed by laparoscopic follicular aspiration of oocytes, and then the transfer of sperm and oocytes by catheterization into the fallopian tubes. Acronym: GIFT (12 Dec 1998) |
| gel transfer | Any lab technique used to transfer substances which had been separated using gel electrophoresis from the gel to a membrane for further processing or analysis. For example: any type of blotting. (09 Oct 1997) |