| VVS | vesicovaginal space; vesicovaginal space; vestibulo-vegetative syndrome |
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| AGML | Acute Gastric Mucosal Lesion |
| AIL | acute infectious lymphocytosis; angiocentric immunoproliferative lesion; angioimmunoblastic lymphade... |
| AML | acute monocytic leukemia; acute mucosal lesion; acute myeloblastic leukemia; acute myelocytic leukem... |
| BLEL | benign lympho-epithelial lesion |
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| Duret's lesion | Small haemorrhage(s) in the floor of the fourth ventricle or beneath the aqueduct of Sylvius. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Janeway lesion | One of the stigmata of infectious endocarditis: irregular, erythematous, flat, painless macules on the palms, soles, thenar and hypothenar eminences of the hands, tips of the fingers, and plantar surfaces of the toes; rarely a diffuse rash. In acute endocarditis the lesions may be haemorrhagic or purple. (05 Mar 2000) |
| upper motor neuron lesion | Injury to cerebral descending (corticonuclear) fibres above the brainstem or spinal motor nerve nucleus. Synonym: upper motor neuron lesion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Lennert's lesion | <tumour> Malignant lymphoma with a high proportion of diffusely scattered epithelioid cells, tonsillar involvement, and an unpredictable course. Synonym: Lennert's lesion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lesion | <pathology> Any pathological or traumatic discontinuity of tissue or loss of function of a part. Origin: L. Laesio, laedere = to hurt (18 Nov 1997) |
| Lohlein-Baehr lesion | Focal embolic glomerulonephritis occurring in bacterial endocarditis. Synonym: Baehr-Lohlein lesion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lower motor neuron lesion | Injury to motor cells in the brainstem or spinal cord, or of the axons derived from them. (05 Mar 2000) |
| alveolar dead space | The difference between physiologic dead space and anatomical dead space; it represents that part of the physiologic dead space resulting from ventilation of relatively underperfused or nonperfused alveoli; it differs specifically in being placed so as to fill and empty in parallel with functional alveoli, rather than being interposed in the conducting tubes between functional alveoli and the external environment. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anatomical dead space | The volume of the conducting airways from the external environment (at the nose and mouth) down to the level at which inspired gas exchanges oxygen and carbon dioxide with pulmonary capillary blood; formerly presumed to extend down to the beginning of alveolar epithelium in the respiratory bronchioles, but more recent evidence indicates that effective gas exchange extends some distance up the thicker-walled conducting airways because of rapid longitudinal mixing. Compare: alveolar dead space, physiologic dead space. Synonym: anatomical airway. (05 Mar 2000) |
| antecubital space | The fossa in front of the elbow, bounded laterally and medially by the humeral origins of the extensors and flexors of the forearm, respectively, and superiorly by an imaginary line connecting the humeral condyles. Synonym: fossa cubitalis, antecubital space, chelidon, triangle of elbow. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anterior clear space | On lateral chest radiographs, the region dorsal to the sternum and ventral to the ascending aorta. Synonym: anterior clear space. (05 Mar 2000) |
| apical space | The space between the alveolar wall and the apex of the root of a tooth where an alveolar abscess usually has its origin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| axillary space | <anatomy> The underarm area. (16 Dec 1997) |
| Berger's space | The space between the patellar fossa of the vitreous and the lens. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bogros' space | A triangular space between the peritoneum and the transversalis fascia, at the lower angle of which is the inguinal ligament; it contains the lower portion of the external iliac artery. Synonym: Bogros' space, spatium retroinguinale. (05 Mar 2000) |