| ETD | eustachian tube dysfunction |
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| FAD | familial Alzheimer dementia; familial autonomic dysfunction; fetal activity-acceleration determinati... |
| LVD | left ventricular dysfunction |
| MBD | Marchiafava-Bignami disease; Mental Deterioration Battery; methylene blue dye; minimal brain damage;... |
| MCD | magnetic circular dichroism; mast-cell degranulation; mean cell diameter; mean of consecutive differ... |
| common hepatic artery | <anatomy, artery> Origin, coeliac; branches, right gastric, gastroduodenal, and proper hepatic. Synonym: arteria hepatica communis. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| common hepatic duct | The part of the biliary duct system that is formed by the confluence of right and left hepatic ducts. at the porta hepatis it is joined by the cystic duct to become the common bile duct. Synonym: ductus hepaticus communis, hepatocystic duct. (05 Mar 2000) |
| porphyria, hepatic | Porphyria in which the liver is the site where excess formation of porphyrin or its precursors is found. Porphyria, acute intermittent and porphyria cutanea tarda are types of hepatic porphyria. (12 Dec 1998) |
| portoenterostomy, hepatic | Operation for biliary atresia by anastomosis of the bile ducts into the jejunum or duodenum. (12 Dec 1998) |
| posterior branch of right hepatic duct | Hepatic duct branch draining bile from posterior segments of right lobe of liver. Synonym: ramus posterior ductus hepatici dextri. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hepatic | <anatomy> Pertaining to the liver. Origin: L. Hepaticus, Gr. Hepatikos (18 Nov 1997) |
| hepatic adenoma | <radiology> Liver cell adenoma (LCA), rare, benign, F more than M, atypical hepatocytes, no bile ducts or Kuppfer cells (unlike FNH), haemorrhage common, NM: cold nodule associated with: oral contraceptives, type 1 glycogen storage disease (von Gierke) (12 Dec 1998) |
| hepatic amoebiasis | Infection of the liver with Entamoeba histolytica; may occur with or without antecedent amoebic dysentery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hepatic arteries | Arteries involved in supplying blood to the liver. See: common hepatic artery, proper hepatic artery, left hepatic artery, right hepatic artery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hepatic artery | <anatomy, artery> A branch of the coeliac artery that distributes to the stomach, pancreas, duodenum, liver, gallbladder, and greater omentum. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hepatic branches of vagus nerve | <anatomy, nerve> Branches of the anterior and posterior vagal trunks distributed to the liver. Synonym: rami hepatici nervi vagi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hepatic capsulitis | Inflammation of the serous, or peritoneal, covering of the liver. Synonym: hepatic capsulitis, hepatitis externa, hepatoperitonitis. Origin: peri-+ G. Hepar, liver, + -itis, inflammation (05 Mar 2000) |
| hepatic colic | Intense spasmodic pain felt in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen from impaction of a gallstone in the cystic duct. Synonym: gallstone colic, hepatic colic. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hepatic coma | A condition of severe end-stage liver dysfunction that is accompanied by unresponsiveness (coma). A feature of hepatic encephalopathy. (27 Sep 1997) |
| hepatic cords | Liver laminae as seen in sections. (05 Mar 2000) |