| TEC | total electron count; total eosinophil count; total exchange capacity; transient erythroblastopenia ... |
|---|---|
| WBC | well baby care/clinic; white blood cell; white blood cell count; whole blood cell count |
| ACI | acceleration index; acoustic comfort index; acute cardiac ischemia; acute coronary infarction; acute... |
| API | alkaline protease inhibitor; Analytical Profile Index; arterial pressure index; atmospheric pressure... |
| DI | date of injury; defective interfering [particle]; dentinogenesis imperfecta; deoxyribonucleic acid i... |
| Galton's system of classification of fingerprints | A system of classification based on the variations in the patterns of the ridges, which are grouped into arches, loops, and whorls (A.L.W. Or arch-loop-whorl system). "Arches are formed when the ridges run from one side to the other of the bulb of the digit, without making any backward turn, but no twist; whorls, when there is a turn through at least one complete circle; they are also considered to include all duplex spirals." The abbreviations used in making a record of fingerprint's are: a, arch; l, loop; w, whorl; i, loop with an inner (thumb side) slope; o, loop with an outer (little-finger side) slope. The ten digits are registered in four groups as follows, distinguished by capital letters: A, the fore, middle, and ring fingers of the right hand; B, the fore, middle, and ring fingers of the left hand; C, the thumb and little finger of the right hand; D, the thumb and little finger of the left hand. See: dermatoglyphics. (05 Mar 2000) |
|---|---|
| Gell and Coombs Classification | A classification system that differentiates the 4 types of hypersensitivity reactions: Type I: anaphylactic reactions, Type II: cytotoxic reactions, Type III: immune complex reactions, and Type IV: cell-mediated reactions. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Rappaport classification | A histologic classification of lymphomas in use before the availability of recent methods for identification of B-and T-type lymphocytes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vertical classification | <zoology> Classification which stresses common descent and tends to unite ancestral and descendant groups of a phyletic line in a single higher taxon, separating them from contemporaneous taxa having reached a similar grade of evolutionary change. Compare: Horizontal classification. (09 Jan 1998) |
| phenetic classification | <zoology> Classification based on degree of overall similarity. (09 Jan 1998) |
| Rye classification | Classification of Hodgkin's disease according to lymphocyte predominance, nodular sclerosing, mixed cellularity, and lymphocyte depletion types. Origin: Rye, NY, 1965 (05 Mar 2000) |
| cladistic classification | <zoology> Classification based on recency of common descent, i.e. Categories depend on the position of the branching points on the inferred phylogenetic tree. (09 Jan 1998) |
| classification | <zoology> The systematic arrangement of similar entities on the basis of certain differing characteristics and the basis of their relationships. (09 Jan 1998) |
| multiaxial classification | A procedure used in DSM-III-R for diagnosing patients on five axes: 1) psychiatric syndrome present; 2) patient's history of personality and developmental disorders; 3) possible nonmental medical disorders; 4) severity of psychosocial stressors; 5) highest level of adaptive functioning in the past year. (05 Mar 2000) |
| portal hypertension: classification | <radiology> Presinusoidal, extrahepatic: portal vein obstruction (extrinsic compression, phlebitis, OC, coagulopathy, tumour invasion, pancreatitis, neonatal omphalitis), dynamic: traumatic/neoplastic arterioportal fistula, segmental portal hypertension: splenic/superior mesenteric vein occlusion, intrahepatic (obstruction of portal venules): congenital hepatic fibrosis, primary biliary cirrhosis, sarcoid, myelofibrosis, schistosomiasis, idiopathic noncirrhotic fibrosis, Wilson disease, reticuloendotheliosis, Felty syndrome, chronic malaria, toxic fibrosis (arsenic, copper, PVC vapors) sinusoidal, cirrhosis, sclerosing cholangitis postsinusoidal, Budd-Chiari syndrome, constrictive pericarditis, congestive heart failure (12 Dec 1998) |
| Cummer's classification | A listing of several types of removable partial dentures in accordance with the distribution of direct retainers. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Salter-Harris classification of epiphysial plate injuries | The classification of epiphysial plate injuries into five groups (I to V), according to the pattern of damage to epiphysis, physis, and/or metaphysis; the classification correlates with different prognoses regarding the effects of the injury on subsequent growth and subsequent deformity of the epiphysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| horizontal classification | <zoology> Classification which stresses grouping together taxa in a similar stage of evolution, rather than location on the same phyletic line. See: Vertical classification. (09 Jan 1998) |
| natural classification | <zoology> Classification based on inferences concerning the phylogenetic relationships of animals. (09 Jan 1998) |
| New York Heart Association classification | A functional classification to assess cardiovascular disability. Class I: patients with cardiac disease without limitation of physical activity. Ordinary activity does not cause symptoms. Class II: patients with cardiac disease with slight limitation of activity; comfortable at rest. Ordinary physical activity results in fatigue, palpitation, dyspnea or angina. Class III: patients with cardiac disease producing marked limitation of activity: comfortable at rest. Less than ordinary physical activity causes symptoms. Class IV: patients with cardiac disease resulting in inability to carry on any physical activity without discomfort. Symptoms may be present even at rest. (05 Mar 2000) |