| CWBTS | capillary whole blood true sugar |
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| FB | fasting blood [sugar]; feedback; fiberoptic bronchoscopy; fingerbreadth; foreign body; Fusobacterium... |
| FBS | fasting blood sugar; feedback system; fetal bovine serum |
| MSU | maple sugar urine; maple syrup urine; medical studies unit; mid-stream urine; monosodium urate; myoc... |
| PPBS | postprandial blood sugar |
| sugar-phosphatase | <enzyme> Acts on a wide range of hexosephosphates, pentosephosphates and oligosaccharidesphosphates Registry number: EC 3.1.3.23 Synonym: sugar phosphate phosphohydrolase, hexose-6-phosphate phosphohydrolase (26 Jun 1999) |
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| deoxy sugar | A sugar containing fewer oxygen atoms than carbon atoms and in which, consequently, one or more carbons in the molecule lack an attached hydroxyl group. Synonym: desoxy sugar. (05 Mar 2000) |
| desoxy sugar | A sugar containing fewer oxygen atoms than carbon atoms and in which, consequently, one or more carbons in the molecule lack an attached hydroxyl group. Synonym: desoxy sugar. (05 Mar 2000) |
| invert sugar | Subjected to chemical inversion: inverted. (18 Nov 1997) |
| oil sugar | A class of preparations made by the trituration of a volatile oil (anise, fennel, lemon, etc.) with sugar; used as a diluent or corrigent of powerful or bad tasting drugs in powder form. Synonym: oil sugar. Origin: oleo-+ G. Saccharon, sugar (05 Mar 2000) |
| fruit sugar | D-fructose. See: fructose. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acinar cell tumour | A solid and cystic tumour of the pancreas, occurring in young women; tumour cells contain zymogen granules. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acute splenic tumour | Acute splenitis, enlargement, and softening of the spleen, usually due to bacteraemia or severe bacterial toxaemia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| adenoid tumour | Adenoma, or neoplasm with glandlike spaces. (05 Mar 2000) |
| adenomatoid odontogenic tumour | A benign epithelial odontogenic tumour appearing radiographically as a well-circumscribed radiolucent-radiopaque lesion usually surrounding the crown of an impacted tooth in an adolescent or young adult; characterised histologically by columnar cells organised in a duct-like configuration interspersed with spindle-shaped cells and amyloid-like deposition that gradually undergoes dystrophic calcification. Synonym: adenoameloblastoma, ameloblastic adenomatoid tumour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| adenomatoid tumour | A small, circumscribed, benign tumour of the genital tract, composed of small glandlike spaces lined by flattened or cuboidal mesothelium-like cells. (12 Dec 1998) |
| adipose tumour | <oncology, tumour> Clumps of fat cells. Literally, fat cancer. These are benign tumours that can form in the breast. (16 Dec 1997) |
| adrenal gland tumour | <oncology> A benign tumour or adenoma, that usually results in the excess production of adrenal gland hormones. (27 Sep 1997) |
| adrenal rest tumour | A rare, usually benign, ovarian tumour thought to be derived from embryonic rest cells of the adrenals. This tumour causes various degrees of masculinization. (12 Dec 1998) |
| ameloblastic adenomatoid tumour | A benign epithelial odontogenic tumour appearing radiographically as a well-circumscribed radiolucent-radiopaque lesion usually surrounding the crown of an impacted tooth in an adolescent or young adult; characterised histologically by columnar cells organised in a duct-like configuration interspersed with spindle-shaped cells and amyloid-like deposition that gradually undergoes dystrophic calcification. Synonym: adenoameloblastoma, ameloblastic adenomatoid tumour. (05 Mar 2000) |