| FP | false positive; family physician; family planning; family practice; family practitioner; Fanconi pan... |
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| FPF | false positive fraction; fibroblast pneumocyte factor |
| FPR | false-positive rate; finger peripheral resistance; fluorescence photobleaching recovery; N-formylpep... |
| FPSTS | false-positive serologic test for syphilis |
| FT | Fallot tetralogy; false transmitter; family therapy; fast twitch; fatigue trial; fibrous tissue; fin... |
| false cyst | 1. An accumulation of fluid in a cystlike loculus, but without an epithelial or other membranous lining. Synonym: adventitious cyst, false cyst. 2. A cyst whose wall is formed by a host cell and not by a parasite. 3. A mass of 50 or more Toxoplasma bradyzoites, found within a host cell, frequently in the brain; formerly called a pseudocyst, but now considered a true cyst enclosed in its own membrane within the host cell that may rupture to release particles that form new cysts, and apparently is infective to another vertebrate host. See: bradyzoite. Origin: pseudo-+ G. Kystis, bladder (05 Mar 2000) |
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| false dextrocardia | Displacement and rotation of the heart into the right side of the chest but without mirror transposition of the cardiac chambers. Synonym: dextroversion of the heart, false dextrocardia, type 3 dextrocardia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| false diverticulum | <surgery> A diverticulum of the intestine that passes through a defect in the muscular wall of the gut and thus does not include a layer of muscle in its wall. (05 Mar 2000) |
| false dominance | Simulation by a recessive trait of the pedigree of dominant inheritance (i.e., recurrence in several generations) by repeated, and often occult, consanguineous matings. Synonym: false dominance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| false glottis | The interval between the false vocal cords or vestibular folds. Synonym: false glottis, glottis spuria, rima respiratoria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| false haematuria | A red pigmentation of urine caused by certain foods or drugs, and thus not actually haematuria. Synonym: false haematuria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| false-heart | Hollow or unsound at the core; treacherous; deceitful; perfidious. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| false-hearted | Hollow or unsound at the core; treacherous; deceitful; perfidious. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| false hellebore | 1. A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar. 2. A preeminently beautiful young man; a dandy. 3. <botany> A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae, containing the pheasaut's eye (Adonis autumnalis); named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower. Origin: L, gr. Gr. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| false hermaphroditism | A condition in which the gonads are of one sex but one or more contradictions exist in the morphologic criteria of sex. Female pseudohermaphroditism is a form in which the affected individual is a genetic and gonadal female with partial masculinization. Male pseudohermaphroditism is a form in which the affected individual is a genetic and gonadal male with incomplete masculinization. (12 Dec 1998) |
| false hypertrophy | Increase in size of an organ or a part, due not to increase in size or number of the specific functional elements but to that of some other tissue, fatty or fibrous. Synonym: false hypertrophy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| false image | <ophthalmology> The image in the deviating eye in strabismus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| false joint | A pathologic entity characterised by deossification of a weight-bearing long bone, followed by bending and pathologic fracture, with inability to form normal callus leading to existence of the "false joint" that gives the condition its name. (12 Dec 1998) |
| false knots | <obstetrics> False knots of umbilical cord, local increases in length or varicosity of the umbilical vein, causing markedly apparent twisting of the cord. (05 Mar 2000) |
| false labour | <obstetrics> Contractions which do not produce cervical dilation or effacement. (05 Mar 2000) |