| BCA | balloon catheter angioplasty; bicinchoninic acid; blood color analyzer; Blue Cross Association; bran... |
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| BCLP | bilateral cleft of lip and palate |
| CL | capillary lumen; cardiolipin; cell line; centralis lateralis; chemiluminescence; chest and left arm ... |
| cl | centiliter; clarified; clean; clear; cleft; clinic; clinical; clonus; clotting; cloudy |
| CLH | chronic lobular hepatitis; cleft limb-heart [syndrome]; corpus luteum hormone; cutaneous lymphoid hy... |
| BCLP | bilateral cleft lip and palate |
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| CL(P) | cleft lip and/or palate |
| CL (P) | cleft palate |
| CPO | cleft palate only |
| pudendal cleft | The cleft between the labia majora. Synonym: rima pudendi, fissura pudendi, pudendal cleavage, pudendal slit, rima vulvae, urogenital cleft, vulvar slit. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| hyobranchial cleft | The cleft caudal to the hyoid arch of the embryo. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hyomandibular cleft | <anatomy> The cleft between the hyoid and mandibular arches of the embryo; the external auditory meatus is developed from its dorsal portion. Synonym: first visceral cleft. (05 Mar 2000) |
| natal cleft | The sulcus between the buttocks (nates). Synonym: crena ani, anal cleft, crena clunium, gluteal cleft. (05 Mar 2000) |
| synaptic cleft | <physiology> The narrow space between the presynaptic cell and the postsynaptic cell in a chemical synapse, across which the neurotransmitter diffuses. (10 Jan 1998) |
| oblique facial cleft | Congenital facial cleft from mouth to the inner canthus of the eye. Synonym: oblique facial cleft. Origin: prosopo-+ G. Schisis, fissure (05 Mar 2000) |
| two-cleft | <botany> Divided about half way from the border to the base into two segments; bifid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| facial cleft | A cleft resulting from incomplete merging or fusion of embryonic processes normally uniting in the formation of the face, e.g., cleft lip or cleft palate. Synonym: prosopoanoschisis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| urogenital cleft | The cleft between the labia majora. Synonym: rima pudendi, fissura pudendi, pudendal cleavage, pudendal slit, rima vulvae, urogenital cleft, vulvar slit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| first visceral cleft | <anatomy> The cleft between the hyoid and mandibular arches of the embryo; the external auditory meatus is developed from its dorsal portion. Synonym: first visceral cleft. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Larrey's cleft | A muscular defect in the diaphragm between the costal and the sternal portions. Synonym: Larrey's cleft, sternocostal triangle. (05 Mar 2000) |