| AL | absolute latency; acinar lumen; acute leukemia; adaptation level; albumin; alcoholism [and other dru... |
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| ALS | acute lateral sclerosis; advanced life support; afferent loop syndrome; amyotrophic lateral sclerosi... |
| ALW | arch-loop whorl |
| AML | acute monocytic leukemia; acute mucosal lesion; acute myeloblastic leukemia; acute myelocytic leukem... |
| bHLH | basic helix-loop-helix |
| cold liver lesion | <radiology> Size for detection = 1-2 cm (3-cm deep lesions), primary tumour (haemangioma hot by Tc-RBCs), metastasis, inflammatory lesion (e.g., amebic abscess), degenerative disease, trauma, congenital lesion (solitary cyst or polycystic disease) see: liver-spleen scan (12 Dec 1998) |
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| cold spleen lesion | <radiology> Infarction, lymphoma, haematoma, tumour, splenic artery aneurysm, pancreatic pseudocyst, variant, artifact, absent spleen, splenectomy, sickle cell disease, trauma see: liver-spleen scan (12 Dec 1998) |
| Councilman's lesion | An eosinophilic globule, seen in the liver in yellow fever, derived from necrosis of a single hepatic cell. Synonym: Councilman's lesion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| precancerous lesion | A noninvasive lesion with a predictable likelihood of becoming malignant; e.g., actinic keratosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hill-Sachs lesion | An irregularity seen in the head of the humerus following dislocation of the shoulder; caused by impaction of the head of the humerus against the edge of the glenoid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hot liver lesion | <radiology> Vena cava (superior vena cava/IVC) obstruction, QUADRATE (anterior medial segment of left lobe), basilic vein injection most likely to be collaterals, Budd-Chiari syndrome, CAUDATE lobe, cirrhosis, focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH), haemangioma see also: liver-spleen scan (12 Dec 1998) |
| single lucent skull lesion | <radiology> Mnemonic: HELP ME, haemangioma, epidermoid / dermoid, leptomeningeal cyst, lambdoid suture defect, Paget's (osteoporosis circumscripta), post-surgical, metastasis (solitary), eosinophilic granuloma, encephalocele (12 Dec 1998) |
| solid lesion of spleen | <radiology> Granulomatous disease, most often TB and histoplasmosis, less often sarcoid, metastasis, melanoma, lymphoma, breast, lung, primary mass, haemangioma, haemangiosarcoma, lymphangioma, infarction (12 Dec 1998) |
| squamous intraepithelial lesion | A general term for the abnormal growth of squamous cells on the surface of the cervix. The changes in the cells are described as low grade or high grade, depending on how much of the cervix is affected and how abnormal the cells are. Also called sil. (12 Dec 1998) |
| dark t2 lesion | <radiology> (short T2), acute haemorrhage (deoxyHb), haemosiderin, physiologic iron (basal ganglia, etc.), mucinous lesions (?) most abnormalities have long T1 and T2 (dark/bright). Compare: bright T1 lesion. (07 Mar 2000) |
| supranuclear lesion | Injury to cerebral descending (corticonuclear) fibres above the brainstem or spinal motor nerve nucleus. Synonym: upper motor neuron lesion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Dreulofoy's lesion | An abnormally large submucosal artery located in the proximal stomach that may be the site of acute and recurrent episodes of massive haemorrhage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Duret's lesion | Small haemorrhage(s) in the floor of the fourth ventricle or beneath the aqueduct of Sylvius. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Janeway lesion | One of the stigmata of infectious endocarditis: irregular, erythematous, flat, painless macules on the palms, soles, thenar and hypothenar eminences of the hands, tips of the fingers, and plantar surfaces of the toes; rarely a diffuse rash. In acute endocarditis the lesions may be haemorrhagic or purple. (05 Mar 2000) |
| upper motor neuron lesion | Injury to cerebral descending (corticonuclear) fibres above the brainstem or spinal motor nerve nucleus. Synonym: upper motor neuron lesion. (05 Mar 2000) |