| MND | minimum necrosing dose; minor neurological dysfunction; modified neck dissection; motor neuron disea... |
|---|---|
| NSM | neurosecretory material; neurosecretory motor neuron; nonantigenic specific mediator; nutrient sporu... |
| UM | movement unsharpness; upper motor [neuron]; uracil mustard; utilization management |
| UMN | upper motor neuron |
| UMNS | upper motor neuron syndrome |
| facilitator neuron | <physiology> A neuron whose firing enhances the effect of a second neuron on a third. This allows the effects of neuronal activity to be modulated. (18 Nov 1997) |
|---|---|
| unipolar neuron | A neuron whose cell body emits a single axonal process resulting from the fusion of two polar processes during development; at a variable distance from the cell body, the process divides into a peripheral axon branch extending outward as a peripheral afferent (sensory) nerve fibre, and a central axon branch that enters into synaptic contact with neuron's in the spinal cord or brainstem. With the single known exception of the neuron's composing the mesencephalic nucleus of the trigeminus, unipolar neuron's are the exclusive neural elements of the sensory ganglia. The lack of dendritic processes of these primary sensory neuron's is only apparent: the dendritic pole of the unipolar neuron is represented by the unmyelinated terminal ramifications of the peripheral axon branch. Synonym: pseudounipolar cell, pseudounipolar neuron, unipolar cell. (05 Mar 2000) |
| admixture lesion | <radiology> Cyanosis and increased pulmonary blood flow, transposition (TGV), truncus arteriosis, TAPVR, tricuspid atresia (sort of intracardiac TAPVR) (12 Dec 1998) |
| andersson lesion | <radiology> Discovertebral fracture, seen in ankylosing spondylitis (12 Dec 1998) |
| Baehr-Lohlein lesion | Focal embolic glomerulonephritis occurring in bacterial endocarditis. Synonym: Baehr-Lohlein lesion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| benign lymphoepithelial lesion | Benign tumour-like masses of lymphoid tissue in the parotid gland, containing scattered small, mainly solid islands of epithelial cells. Synonym: Godwin tumour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bracht-Wachter lesion | A focal collection of lymphocytes and mononuclear cells within the myocardium in bacterial endocarditis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bright t1 lesion | <radiology> (short T1), fat (lipoma, dermoid), sub-acute haemorrhage (metHb), paramagnetic agent (Gd, ? posterior pituitary), proteinaceous fluid (colloid cyst) most abnormalities cause long T1 and T2 (dark/bright) see also: dark T2 lesion (12 Dec 1998) |
| bubbly bone lesion | <radiology> Fibrous dysplasia, enchondroma, giant cell tumour (GCT), non-ossifying fibroma, osteoblastoma, myeloma, aneurysmal bone cyst (ABC), angioma, simple (solitary, unicameral) bone cyst, hyperparathyroid cyst, infection (Brodie's abscess; coccidioidomycosis; echinococcus), chondromyxoid fibroma, chondroblastoma mnemonic: FEGNOMASHIC (!!) (12 Dec 1998) |
| radial sclerosing lesion | A variant of sclerosing adenosis of the breast with central scar formation and radiating hyperplastic ducts. Synonym: radial scar. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mallory-Weiss lesion | Laceration of the gastric cardia, as seen in the Mallory-Weiss syndrome. Synonym: Mallory-Weiss tear. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gelatinous lesion | A small area of oedema in the arterial intima, possibly a precursor of a fibrous plaque. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Ghon's primary lesion | Calcification seen in pulmonary parenchyma (usually mid-lung area) and hilar nodes resulting from earlier, usually childhood, infection with tuberculosis. Synonym: Ghon's complex, Ghon's focus, Ghon's primary lesion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| GI-tract target lesion | <radiology> Metastatic melanoma, primary neoplasm, spindle cell tumour (benign or malignant), lymphoma, carcinoid, carcinoma, metastasis, breast carcinoma, lung carcinoma, renal carcinoma, Kaposi's sarcoma, eosinophilic granuloma, ectopic pancreas (12 Dec 1998) |
| caviar lesion | A dilated vein or varicule existing in the venous collecting system under the tongue. (05 Mar 2000) |