| AVF | 1) Arterio-Venous Fistula - Arterio-Venous Fistula 2) Augmented Voltage F... |
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| ft. | foot, feet |
| LF | 1) Lethal Factor 2) Line Feed 3) Left Foot |
| RF | 1) Renal Failure 2) Rheumatic Fever ? Rheumatic Fever ... |
| ACFAO | American College of Foot and Ankle Orthopedics and Medicine |
| Morand's foot | A foot having eight toes. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| white-foot | <veterinary> A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mossy foot | A profuse velvety papillomatous growth that develops large warty projections; caused by chronic lymphedema and stasis with maceration and associated infection. Synonym: lymphedematous keratoderma, lymphostatic verrucosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wolf's-foot | <botany> Club moss. See Lycopodium. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| contracted foot | A condition of the horse in which a part of the foot, often a heel, is contracted and shrunken as a result of loss of moisture in the hoof. Synonym: contracted heel, talipes cavus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hand-and-foot syndrome | <syndrome> Recurrent painful swelling of the hands and feet occurring in infants and young children with sickle cell anaemia. Synonym: sickle cell dactylitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hand-foot-and-mouth disease | <infectious disease> Hand, foot and mouth disease is a mild, highly infectious viral disease of children, characterised by vesicular lesions in the mouth and on the hands and feet. Occurs most often in young children (under 3) and is transmitted via close contact. Outbreaks occur most often in the spring. Usually begins as a throat infection (pharyngitis) that later includes a rash (blisters) on the hands, feet and diaper area. Blisters may also appear on the throat and in the mouth. Other features include anorexia, headache and fever. The illness is typically self-limited, lasting 5-7 days. There is no specific treatment other than general supportive care. An exanthematous eruption of small, pearl-gray vesicles of the fingers, toes, palms, and soles, accompanied by often painful vesicles and ulceration of the buccal mucous membrane and the tongue and by slight fever; the disease lasts 4 to 7 days, and is usually caused by Coxsackie virus type A-16, but other types have been identified. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hand-foot-and-mouth disease virus | The virus causing hand-foot-and-mouth disease; chiefly type A16 but also types A4, A5, A7, A9, or A10 Entervirus coxsackievirus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hare's-foot fern | <botany> A species of fern (Davallia Canariensis) with a soft, gray, hairy rootstock; whence the name. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sandal foot | A wide space between the first and second toes seen in Down's syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hen's-foot | <botany> An umbelliferous plant (Caucalis daucoides). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pronation of foot | Eversion and abduction of the foot, raising the lateral edge. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hong Kong foot | Tinea involving the feet, particularly the interdigital spaces and soles, most often caused by Trichophyton rubrum, T. Mentagrophytes or Epidermophyton floccosum and characterised by intensely pruritic lesions varying from mild, chronic and scaling to acute exfoliative, pustular and bullous. (18 Nov 1997) |
| pumiced foot | A condition of the horse's hoof, frequently associated with chronic laminitis, in which the sole is level with or extends beyond the bearing surface of the hoof wall, causing lameness, particularly when the animal moves on hard surfaces; the sole becomes thick and flaky. (05 Mar 2000) |
| single-foot | An irregular gait of a horse; called also single-footed pace. See Single, "Single-foot is an irregular pace, rather rare, distinguished by the posterior extremities moving in the order of a fast walk, and the anterior extremities in that of a slow trot." (Stillman (The Horse in Motion)) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |