| VPS | ventriculoperitoneal shunt; verbal pain scale; virtual point source; visual pleural space; volume pe... |
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| Ppl | Pleural pressure |
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| RPMC | Rat pleural mesothelial cells |
| DMPM | diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma |
| RPM | rat pleural mesothelial |
| pleural stripe | On a chest radiograph, the soft tissue stripe between the opacity of the aerated lung and that of the cortex of the rib. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| pleural villi | Shaggy appendages on the pleura in the neighborhood of the costomediastinal sinus. Synonym: villi pleurales. (05 Mar 2000) |
| empyema, pleural | Suppurative inflammation of the pleural space. (12 Dec 1998) |
| tuberculosis, pleural | Tuberculosis of the serous membrane lining the thoracic cavity and surrounding the lungs. (12 Dec 1998) |