| A2C | apical two-chamber [view] |
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| A4C | apical four-chamber [view] |
| AER | abduction/external rotation; acoustic evoked response; acute exertional rhabdomyolysis; agranular en... |
| AI | accidental injury; accidentally incurred; adiposity index; aggregation index; allergy and immunology... |
| AP | accessory pathway; accounts payable; acid phosphatase; acinar parenchyma; action potential; active p... |
| late apical systolic murmur | A murmur previously considered benign, or even extracardiac, with a possible relationship to pericardial disease; it often represents mitral insufficiency, often localised and of moderate severity but with propensity for developing bacterial endocarditis, and is frequently associated with systolic click and mitral prolapse (Barlow syndrome; a balloon or billowing mitral valve leaflet) often producing a click, murmur, or both, as it prolapses during systole into the left atrium. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| anteroposterior projection | The alternative frontal radiographic projection, used mainly in bedside or portable radiography. Synonym: anteroposterior projection. (05 Mar 2000) |
| AP projection | The alternative frontal radiographic projection, used mainly in bedside or portable radiography. Synonym: anteroposterior projection. (05 Mar 2000) |
| axial projection | Radiographic projection devised to obtain direct visualization of the base of the skull. Synonym: axial view, base projection, submental vertex projection, submentovertical projection, verticosubmental view. (05 Mar 2000) |
| base projection | Radiographic projection devised to obtain direct visualization of the base of the skull. Synonym: axial view, base projection, submental vertex projection, submentovertical projection, verticosubmental view. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Caldwell projection | Inclined PA radiographic projection devised to permit visualization of orbital structures unobstructed by the petrous ridges. Synonym: Caldwell view. (05 Mar 2000) |
| radiography, dual-energy scanned projection | A method of producing a high-quality scan by digitizing and subtracting the images produced by high- and low-energy X-rays. (12 Dec 1998) |
| PA projection | The standard frontal chest film projection; radiographic skull projection with the petrous ridge superimposed on the orbits. Synonym: posteroanterior projection. (05 Mar 2000) |
| visual projection | A perceptual synthesis involving visual mechanisms. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Rhese projection | Oblique radiographic view of the skull to show the optic foramen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Granger projection | G. View, reversed half-axial view; uncommonly used PA view of the skull. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Waters' projection | A PA radiographic view of the skull made with the orbitomeatal line at an angle of 37 |
| point projection | <microscopy> A method of producing enlarged images by means of X rays. The specimen is placed close to a point source of X rays and the magnification achieved is the ratio of source-image to source-object distance. Resolution depends primarily on the diameter of the source. (05 Aug 1998) |
| cross-table lateral projection | <radiology> Lateral projection radiography of a supine subject using a horizontal X-ray beam. (05 Mar 2000) |
| posteroanterior projection | The standard frontal chest film projection; radiographic skull projection with the petrous ridge superimposed on the orbits. Synonym: posteroanterior projection. (05 Mar 2000) |