| ERPF | effective renal plasma flow |
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| RPF | relaxed pelvic floor; renal plasma flow; retroperitoneal fibrosis |
| RBF | regional blood flow; regional bone mass; renal blood flow |
| EHBF | estimated hepatic blood flow; exercise hyperemia blood flow; extrahepatic blood flow |
| MBF | medullary blood flow; muscle blood flow; myocardial blood flow |
| flow injection analysis | The analysis of a chemical substance by inserting a sample into a carrier stream of reagent using a sample injection valve that propels the sample downstream where mixing occurs in a coiled tube, then passes into a flow-through detector and a recorder or other data handling device. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| flow karyotyping | Use of flow cytometry toanalyse and/orseparate chromosomes on the basis of their DNA content. (09 Oct 1997) |
| flow-over vaporiser | A device for vaporization of a liquid anaesthetic by causing gases to pass over the anaesthetic or over material saturated with the anaesthetic. (05 Mar 2000) |
| flow rate | The amount of water that moves through an area (usually pipe) in a given period of time. (05 Dec 1998) |
| flow void | In magnetic resonance imaging, the absence of signal from blood whose activated protons leave a region before their magnetization is measured. See: signal void. (05 Mar 2000) |
| flow-volume curve | The graph produced by plotting the instantaneous flow of respiratory gas against the simultaneous lung volume, usually during maximal forced expiration. (05 Mar 2000) |
| laminar air flow unit | An air-filtering system used at some transplant facilities to remove particulate matter and fungi from the air. (16 Dec 1997) |
| laminar flow | The relative motion of elements of a fluid along smooth parallel paths, which occurs at lower values of Reynolds number. (05 Mar 2000) |
| forced expiratory flow | Expiratory flow during measurement of forced vital capacity; subscripts specify the exact parameter measured, e.g., peak instantaneous flow, the instantaneous flow at some specified point on the curve of volume expired versus time, or on the flow-volume curve, the mean flow between two expired volumes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| forced expiratory flow rates | Measurements of rates of airflow during a forced vital capacity determination. (12 Dec 1998) |
| frozen-in flow law | <radiobiology> In a perfect conductor, the total magnetic flux through any surface is a constant. In a plasma which is nearly perfectly conducting, the relevant surfaces move with the plasma, the result is that the plasma is tied to the magnetic field, and the field is tied to the plasma. Motion of the plasma thus deforms the magnetic field, and vice versa. The magnetic flux is said to be frozen into the plasma. (09 Oct 1997) |
| low flow principle | A principle based on the observation that animals can survive prolonged vena caval occlusion without sequelae: if blood from the azygos vein alone is permitted to enter the heart, patients are perfused during cardiac and pulmonary bypass at flows much less than the normal resting cardiac output. Synonym: low flow principle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| radical mastectomy, total | Breast cancer treatment involving removal of the breast, the pectoral (chest) muscles, lymph nodes (the glands ) in the armpit and associated skin and subcutaneous tissue. (12 Dec 1998) |
| parenteral nutrition, home total | The at-home administering of nutrients for assimilation and utilization by a patient whose sole source of nutrients is via solutions administered intravenously, subcutaneously or by some other non-alimentary route. (12 Dec 1998) |
| parenteral nutrition, total | The delivery of nutrients for assimilation and utilization by a patient whose sole source of nutrients is via solutions administered intravenously, subcutaneously, or by some other non-alimentary route. The basic components of tpn solutions are protein hydrolysates or free amino acid mixtures, monosaccharides, and electrolytes. Components are selected for their ability to reverse catabolism, promote anabolism, and build structural proteins. (12 Dec 1998) |