| SET | Singlephoton Emission Tomography = SPECT |
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| SPECT | Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography = SET |
| CISC | complex-instructional-set computing |
| MDS | Master of Dental Surgery; maternal deprivation syndrome; medical data screening; medical data system... |
| MDS+ | minimum data set (plus) |
| F-->M | female to male |
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| PER | proboscis extension reflex |
| THE | tonic hind limb extension |
| female pattern baldness | <dermatology> Hair loss in women that may be associated with aging, hormones (androgens) or genetic predisposition. The pattern of baldness in women is different from that of men. In women there is thinning of the hair all over the scalp, but the frontal hairline is maintained. The hair loss is usually permanent. Treatment has been successful with topical minoxidil in some cases. (27 Sep 1997) |
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| female prostate | Term sometimes applied to the periurethral glands in the upper part of the urethra in the female. (05 Mar 2000) |
| female pseudohermaphroditism | Pseudohermaphroditism with skeletal and genital anomalies but with female gonads and an XX karyotype. Synonym: androgynism, androgyny. (05 Mar 2000) |
| female rhymes | Double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line. A rhyme, in which the final syllables only agree (strain, complain) is called a male rhyme; one in which the two final syllables of each verse agree, the last being short (motion, ocean), is called female. Female screw, the spiral-threaded cavity into which another, or male, screw turns. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| female sterility | The inability of the female to conceive, due to inadequacy in structure or function of the genital organs. Synonym: infecundity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| female urethra | A canal about 4 cm long passing from the bladder, in close relation with the anterior wall of the vagina and having a long axis that parallels that of the vagina, opening in the vestibule of the vagina posterior to the clitoris and anterior to the vaginal orifice. Synonym: urethra feminina, urethra muliebris. (05 Mar 2000) |
| female urethral syndrome | <syndrome, urology> Symptoms of a urinary tract infection although the urine is sterile when analysed. This suggests the infection is localised to the urethra (urethritis). Treated with antibiotics. (27 Sep 1997) |
| fertility agents, female | Compounds which increase the capacity to conceive in females. (12 Dec 1998) |
| urethral crest of female | A conspicuous longitudinal fold of mucosa on the posterior wall of the urethra. Synonym: crista urethralis femininae. (05 Mar 2000) |