| VPS | ventriculoperitoneal shunt; verbal pain scale; virtual point source; visual pleural space; volume pe... |
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| AMPLE | allergies, medications, past medical history, last meal, events preceding present condition |
| CM | California mastitis [test]; calmodulin; capreomycin; carboxymethyl; cardiac murmur; cardiac muscle; ... |
| COA | Canadian Ophthalmological Association; Canadian Orthopaedic Association; certificate of authority; c... |
| COD | cause of death; cerebro-ocular dysplasia; chemical oxygen demand; codeine; condition on discharge |
| RPMC | Rat pleural mesothelial cells |
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| DMPM | diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma |
| RPM | rat pleural mesothelial |
| pleural space | Although reference is often made to the pleural space (one dictionary defines pleural effusion as the presence of fluid in the pleural space ), there is normally only a small amount of fluid between the two layers of the pleura. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| 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) |
| 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) |
| large pleural effusion | <radiology> 3 T's, tumour, TB, trauma (12 Dec 1998) |