| ECR | effectiveness-cost ratio; electrocardiographic response; emergency care research; emergency chemical... |
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| GPCI | geographic practice cost index |
| LCC | lactose coliform count; left circumflex coronary (artery); left common carotid; left coronary cusp; ... |
| MAC | MacConkey [broth]; major ambulatory category; malignancy-associated changes; maximum allowable conce... |
| MCCI | medical care component of the consumer price index; medical cost control initiative |
| environmental illness | A polysymptomatic condition believed by clinical ecologists to result from immune dysregulation induced by common foods, allergens, and chemicals, resulting in various physical and mental disorders. The medical community has remained largely skeptical of the existence of this "disease", given the plethora of symptoms attributed to environmental illness, the lack of reproducible laboratory abnormalities, and the use of unproven therapies to treat the condition. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| functional illness | A physical disorder with no known or detectable organic basis to explain the symptoms. See: behaviour disorder, neurosis. Synonym: dynamic disease, functional disease, functional illness. (05 Mar 2000) |