| Simon's sign | <clinical sign> In incipient meningitis in children, the movements of the diaphragm are dissociated from those of the thorax. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Simon, Charles | <person> U.S. Physician, 1866-1927. See: Simon's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Simon, Gustav | <person> German surgeon, 1824-1876. See: Simon's position. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Simon, Theodore | <person> French physician, 1873-1961. See: Binet-Simon scale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Simonart's bands | The strands of amniotic tissue adherent to the embryo or foetus; they may cause constriction of embryonic limbs. See: congenital amputation. Synonym: amniotic adhesions, annular band, constriction ring, Simonart's bands, Simonart's ligaments, Simonart's threads, Streeter's bands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Simonart's ligaments | The strands of amniotic tissue adherent to the embryo or foetus; they may cause constriction of embryonic limbs. See: congenital amputation. Synonym: amniotic adhesions, annular band, constriction ring, Simonart's bands, Simonart's ligaments, Simonart's threads, Streeter's bands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Simonart's threads | The strands of amniotic tissue adherent to the embryo or foetus; they may cause constriction of embryonic limbs. See: congenital amputation. Synonym: amniotic adhesions, annular band, constriction ring, Simonart's bands, Simonart's ligaments, Simonart's threads, Streeter's bands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Simonart, Pierre | <person> Belgian obstetrician, 1817-1847. See: Simonart's bands, Simonart's ligaments, Simonart's threads. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Simonea folliculorum | A very common, universally distributed, and usually nonpathogenic species of mite that inhabits the hair follicles and sebaceous glands of humans, commonly around the nose and scalp margins. Synonym: Acarus folliculorum, Simonea folliculorum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Simons' disease | A condition characterised by a complete loss of the subcutaneous fat of the upper part of the torso, the arms, neck, and face, sometimes with an increase of fat in the tissues about and below the pelvis. Synonym: Barraquer's disease, lipodystrophia progessiva superior, partial lipoatrophy, Simons' disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Simons, Arthur | <person> German physician, *1877. See: Simons' disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Simonsiella | Genus of nonphotosynthetic, nonfruiting, Gram-negative, chemoorganotrophic, gliding bacteria that exist as multicellular filaments with the long axis of individual cells perpendicular to the long axis of the filament. The cells are flattened and curved to yield a convex-concave, crescent shaped symmetry. Isolated from the oral cavity of mammals. Type species is Simonsiella muelleri. (05 Mar 2000) |
| simpai | <zoology> A long-tailed monkey (Semnopitchecus melalophus) native of Sumatra. It has a crest of black hair. The forehead and cheeks are fawn colour, the upper parts tawny and red, the under parts white. Synonym: black-crested monkey, and sinpae. Origin: Malay simpei. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| simple | Undivided, of a leaf, not divided into leaflets, of a hair or an inflorescence, not branched. (09 Oct 1997) |
| simple absence | A brief clouding of consciousness accompanied by the abrupt onset of 3/sec spikes and waves on EEG. Synonym: pure absence. (05 Mar 2000) |