| ISE | inhibited sexual excitement; International Society of Endocrinology; International Society of Endosc... |
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| PLISSIT | permission to be sexual, limited information, specific suggestions, intensive therapy |
| SAI | Self-Analysis Inventory; Sexual Arousability Inventory; Social Adequacy Index; suppressor of anchora... |
| SAR | scatter/air ratio; seasonal allergic rhinitis; sexual attitude reassessment; slowly adapting recepto... |
| SCT | secretin; sex chromatin test; sexual compatibility test; sickle-cell trait; sperm cytotoxicity; spin... |
| hair loss | Hair loss may be associated with aging, hormones (androgens) or genetic predisposition. The pattern of baldness in women is different from that of men. In women there is thinning of the hair all over the scalp, but the frontal hairline is maintained. The hair loss is usually permanent. Treatment has been successful with topical minoxidil in some cases. (13 Nov 1997) |
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| hearing loss, bilateral | Partial hearing loss in both ears. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hearing loss, central | Hearing loss due to central nervous system disease, anywhere in the auditory pathways from the cochlear nucleus of the pons to the auditory cortex. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hearing loss, conductive | Hearing loss due to interference with the acoustic transmission of sound to the cochlea. The interference is in the outer or middle ear. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hearing loss, functional | Hearing loss without a physical basis. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hearing loss, high-frequency | Hearing loss in frequencies above 1000 hertz. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hearing loss, noise-induced | Hearing loss from exposure to noise. The loss is often in the frequency range 4000-6000 hertz. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hearing loss, partial | A condition in which the sense of hearing, although defective, is functional with or without a hearing aid. The hearing level for speech is approximately 40-70 decibels I.s.o. (international organization for standardization) or 30-60 db a.s.a. (american standards association). (12 Dec 1998) |
| hearing loss, sensorineural | Hearing loss resulting from damage to the sensory mechanism internal from the oval and round windows. (12 Dec 1998) |
| sensorineural hearing loss | <neurology> A form of deafness that occurs due to dysfunction of the auditory nerve (cranial nerve VIII). (27 Sep 1997) |
| drift cyclotron loss cone instabilities | (DCLC) This is an electrostatic microinstability (frequencies at harmonics of the ion cyclotron frequency) which is of major concern in small mirror devices. Mode is driven by radial gradients in the electron density, and causes loss of ions due to non-conservation of magnetic moment (see adiabatic invariant) as they interact with the mode, and are dispersed in velocity space into the loss cone. Stabilisation is accomplished by increasing the plasma size and by partially filling the loss cone with a continuous extermal warm plasma stream. (09 Oct 1997) |
| eddy-current loss | <radiobiology> Energy loss due to eddy currents circulating in a resistive material. (09 Oct 1997) |
| tooth loss | The failure to retain teeth as a result of disease or injury. (12 Dec 1998) |
| functional visual loss | An apparent loss of visual acuity or visual field with no substantiating physical signs; often due to a natural concern about visual loss combined with suggestibility and a fear of the worst; best treated with reassurance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| loss cone | In a magnetic mirror machine, particles with a large velocity parallel to the magneitc field and a small velocity perpendicular to the field will be able to escape past the magnetic mirror (see magnetic mirror). In that case the velocity distribution function (see distribution function) will be almost zero in the region of velocity space that allows particles to escape. The shape of that region (in a velocity space diagram with parallel velocity and perpendicular velocity as the axes) is a cone. When a particle undergoes a collision, its velocity gets somewhat randomised. Particles that are scattered into that cone are lost very quickly (in one mirror bounce time). Thus it is called a loss cone. Because of the loss cone, the theoretical maximum particle confinement time of a magnetic mirror machine can be only a few times the particle collision time, this is generally seen as a showstopper for mirror-based fusion research. (09 Oct 1997) |