| TEC | total electron count; total eosinophil count; total exchange capacity; transient erythroblastopenia ... |
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| TPC | thromboplastic plasma component; thyroid papillary carcinoma; total patient care; total plasma catec... |
| TRC | tanned red cell; therapeutic residential center; total renin concentration; total respiratory conduc... |
| TA | alkaline tuberculin; arterial tension; axillary temperature; tactile afferent; Takayasu arteritis; t... |
| TAC | tachykinin; terminal antrum contraction; tetracaine, adrenalin, and cocaine; time-activity curve; to... |
| thrombotic gangrene | Gangrene due to occlusion of an artery by a thrombus. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| embolic gangrene | Gangrene resulting from obstruction of an artery by an embolus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| emphysematous gangrene | <microbiology> A severe form of gangrene (tissue necrosis) caused by Clostridium infection. Also referred to as necrotising subcutaneous infection. Results in death of the subcutaneous tissues and muscle layers. See: necrotising fascitis. (27 Sep 1997) |
| trophic gangrene | Ulcer resulting from cutaneous sensory denervation. See: perforating ulcer of foot. Synonym: trophic gangrene. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fournier's gangrene | An acute gangrenous infection of the scrotum, penis, or perineum involving gram-positive organisms, enteric bacilli, and anaerobes, which occurs following local trauma, operative procedures, an underlying urinary tract disease, or a distant acute inflammatory process. (12 Dec 1998) |
| artery of pulp | The first section of a penicillus of the spleen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| axial walls of the pulp chambers | The wall's parallel with the long axis of a tooth: the mesial, distal, buccal, and lingual wall's. (05 Mar 2000) |
| radicular pulp | That part of the dental pulp contained within the apical or root portion of the tooth. Synonym: pulpa radicularis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vertebral pulp | The soft fibrocartilage central portion of the intervertebral disk; regarded as a derivative of the notochord. Synonym: gelatinous nucleus, nucleus gelatinosus, vertebral pulp. (05 Mar 2000) |
| red pulp | Splenic pulp seen grossly as a reddish brown substance, due to its abundance of red blood cells, consisting of splenic sinuses and the tissue intervening between them (splenic cords). (05 Mar 2000) |
| red pulp cords | The tissue occurring between the venous sinuses in the spleen. Synonym: Billroth's cords, red pulp cords. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vital pulp | A pulp composed of viable tissue, either normal or diseased, that responds to electric stimuli and to heat and cold. (05 Mar 2000) |
| white pulp | That part of the spleen that consists of nodules and other lymphatic concentrations. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mummified pulp | A misnomer for a pulp treated with a formaldehyde derivative. (05 Mar 2000) |
| coronal pulp | That portion of the dental pulp contained within the pulp chamber or crown cavity of the tooth. Synonym: pulpa coronalis. (05 Mar 2000) |