| LCCME | Liaison Committee on Continuing Medical Education |
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| DME | degenerative myoclonus epilepsy; dimethyl diester; dimethyl ether; diphasic meningoencephalitis; dir... |
| ACORDE | A Corsortium on Restorative Dentistry Education |
| GP | 1) General Practitioner; 전과의(全科醫) 2) General Paresis 3) Ge... |
| GD | gastroduodenal; Gaucher disease; general diagnostics; general dispensary; gestational day; Gianotti ... |
| general anaesthetic | A compound that produces loss of sensation associated with loss of consciousness. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| general anatomy | The study of gross and microscopic structures as well as of the composition of the body, its tissues and fluids. (05 Mar 2000) |
| general bloodletting | Removing blood by arteriotomy or phlebotomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| general duty nurse | Nurse who accepts assignment to any unit of a hospital other than an intensive care unit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| general fertility rate | A refined measure of fertility in a population; the numerator is the number of live births in a year, the denominator is the number of females of child-bearing age, usually defined as ages 15-44 (but increasingly recognised as extending to age 49). (05 Mar 2000) |
| general hospital | Any large civilian hospital that is equipped to care for medical, surgical, maternity, and psychiatric cases, and usually has a resident medical staff. (05 Mar 2000) |
| general immunity | Immunity associated with widely diffused mechanisms that tend to protect the body as a whole, as compared with local immunity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| general paresis | A part of late ( tertiary ) syphilis a decade or more after the initial infection, due to chronic inflammation of the covering and substance of the brain (meningoencephalitis) which results in progressive dementia and generalised paralysis. (12 Dec 1998) |
| general peritonitis | Peritonitis throughout the peritoneal cavity. Synonym: diffuse peritonitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| general physiology | The science of the functions or vital processes common to almost all living things, whether animal or plant, as opposed to aspects of physiology peculiar to particular types of animals or plants, or to the application of physiology to applied sciences such as medicine and agriculture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| general practice | A term for physicians who care for all types of medical problems, including internal medical, paediatric, obstetrical, and surgical diseases. Post-graduate training for general practitioners was limited and there was no specialty certification; the field has been replaced by more extensively trained family practitioners. (05 Mar 2000) |
| general practice, dental | Nonspecialised dental practice which is concerned with providing primary and continuing dental care. (12 Dec 1998) |
| general practitioner | (GP) a medically qualified doctor who practices general medicine as a family practitioner. Some GPs are also qualified in specialised medicine and in Malaysia, the majority of specialists also practise as general practitioners although the trend may be changing. (16 Dec 1997) |
| general somatic afferent column | In the embryo, a column of gray matter in the hindbrain and spinal cord, represented in the adult by the sensory nuclei of the trigeminal nerve and relay cells in the dorsal horn. (05 Mar 2000) |
| general somatic efferent column | A column of gray matter in the embryo, represented in the adult by the nuclei of the oculomotor, trochlear, abducens, and hypoglossal nerves and by motor neurons of the ventral horn of the spinal cord. (05 Mar 2000) |