| CT | calcitonin; calf testis; cardiac tamponade; cardiothoracic [ratio]; carotid tracing; carpal tunnel; ... |
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| DTT | diagnostic and therapeutic team; diphtheria tetanus toxoid; direct transverse traction; dithiothreit... |
| GTEM | gigahertz transverse electromagnetic [cell] |
| LFT | latex fixation test; latex flocculation test; left fronto-transverse [fetal position]; liver functio... |
| LTCS | low transverse cervical section |
| Kerley B lines | Fine peripheral septal lines. Synonym: costophrenic septal lines. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Kerley C lines | A non-specific fine reticular pattern on chest radiographs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Zollner's lines | Figures devised to show the possibility of optical illusions; a common one consists of two parallel line's which are met by numerous short lines obliquely placed; the parallel lines then seeming to converge or diverge. (05 Mar 2000) |
| field lines | <radiobiology> Lines in space along which a field is either changing or not changing (depends on the kind of field) but which help to create diagrams which characterise the behaviour and effects of the field. For instance, electric field lines run in the direction that the electric field will push charged particles, the strength of the field is proportional to the density of the field lines. On the other hand, the magnetic force pushes particles in a direction perpendicular to both the particle's velocity and the direction of the magnetic field line. (09 Oct 1997) |
| fleischner lines | <radiology> Long line shadows (fibrotic scar) from invagination of pleura at the base of the collapse resulting in pseudofissure, seen in pulmonary infarction (12 Dec 1998) |
| Langer's lines | Lines which can be extrapolated by connecting linear openings made when a round pin is driven into the skin of a cadaver, resulting from the principal axis of orientation of the subcutaneous connective tissue (collagen) fibres of the dermis; they vary in direction with the region of the body surface. Synonym: Langer's lines. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fraunhofer lines | <physics> The lines of the spectrun; especially and properly, the dark lines of the solar spectrum, so called because first accurately observed and interpreted by Fraunhofer, a German physicist. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Fraunhofer's lines | A number of the most prominent of the absorption line's of the solar spectrum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| LINES | <abbreviation> Long interspersed elements. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lines of Retzius | Incremental line's of rhythmic deposition of successive layers of enamel matrix during development. Synonym: lines of Retzius. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lines of Zahn | Riblike markings seen by the naked eye on the surface of antemortem thrombi; they consist of a branching framework of platelets and fibrin separating the coagulated blood cells. Synonym: striae of Zahn. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Looser's lines | Radiolucent bands in the cortex of a bone; usually indicates osteomalacia. Synonym: Looser's zones. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acute transverse myelitis | Acute inflammation and softening of the spinal cord; involves the entire thickness of the spinal cord but of limited longitudinal extent; multiple aetiologies. (05 Mar 2000) |
| caudal transverse fissure | A transverse fissure on the visceral surface of the liver between the caudate and quadrate lobes, lodging the portal vein, hepatic artery, hepatic nerve plexus, hepatic ducts, and lymphatic vessels. Synonym: caudal transverse fissure, portal fissure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mesentery of transverse colon | See: mesocolon. (05 Mar 2000) |