| ACIR | Automotive Crash Injury Research |
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| AI | accidental injury; accidentally incurred; adiposity index; aggregation index; allergy and immunology... |
| ALI | acute lung injury; annual limit of intake; average lobe index |
| APIP | additional personal injury protection |
| ASCI | acute spinal cord injury; American Society for Clinical Investigation |
| sandpaper gallbladder | A roughened condition of the mucous membrane of the gallbladder, associated usually with the presence of gallstones. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| serosa of gallbladder | Serous coat of the gallbladder; the visceral peritoneum covering the portions of the gallbladder not in direct contact with the liver. Synonym: tunica serosa vesicae biliaris, tunica serosa vesicae felleae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| small gallbladder | <radiology> Chronic cholecystitis, cystic fibrosis (seen in 30-50% of CF patients), congenital anomaly (multiseptate, hypoplastic) Cf: large gall bladder (12 Dec 1998) |
| neck of gallbladder | The narrow portion between the body of the gallbladder and beginning of the cystic duct. Synonym: collum vesicae biliaris, collum vesicae felleae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| strawberry gallbladder | A gallbladder of which the mucosa is dotted with yellowish cholesterol deposits contrasting with the red hyperaemic background. (05 Mar 2000) |
| diffuse gallbladder wall thickening | <radiology> Criterion: gall bladder wall greater than 3 mm may appear thicker due to surrounding ascites, cholecystitis (acute or chronic), non-fasting state, chronic hypoalbuminaemia, hepatitis, congestive heart failure, fat in gall bladder fossa Cf: focal thickening (12 Dec 1998) |
| inflammatory gallbladder disease | <radiology> Post-bulbar ulcer, Crohn disease, TB, Strongyloides, pancreatitis / cholecystitis (12 Dec 1998) |
| empyema of gallbladder | Severe acute cholecystitis with purulent inflammation of the gallbladder. Latent empyema, the presence of pus in a cavity, especially one of the accessory sinuses, unattended by subjective symptoms. Synonym: empyema benignum. Loculated empyema, pyothorax in which pleural adhesions form one or more pockets containing pus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| focal gallbladder wall thickening | <radiology> Primary gall bladder carcinoma, adenomyomatosis / hyperplastic cholecystosis, adenomatous polyps, papillary adenomas, metastatic nodules, cholesterol polyps (associated with acoustic shadowing), metachromatic leukodystrophy (rare!) See also: diffuse thickening (12 Dec 1998) |
| large gallbladder | <radiology> Courvoisier phenomenon, neoplasm of pancreatic head, distal common bile duct, papilla, hydrops, empyema, vagotomy, diabetes (20% of DM patients) Cf: small gall bladder (12 Dec 1998) |
| fossa for gallbladder | A depression on the visceral surface of the liver anteriorly, between the quadrate and the right lobes, lodging the gallbladder. Synonym: fossa vesicae biliaris, gallbladder fossa. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fundus of gallbladder | The wide closed end of the gallbladder situated at the inferior border of the liver. Synonym: fundus vesicae biliaris (felleae). (05 Mar 2000) |
| acute yellow atrophy of the liver | A lesion in which there is extensive and rapid death of parenchymal cells of the liver, sometimes with fatty degeneration of the size of the organ; the necrosis may result from fulminant viral infection or chemical poisoning; associated with jaundice. Synonym: acute parenchymatous hepatitis, Rokitansky's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| adenoma, liver cell | A benign epithelial tumour of the liver. (12 Dec 1998) |
| alcoholic liver disease | <gastroenterology> Alcoholic cirrhosis is a condition of irreversible liver disease due to the chronic inflammatory and toxic effects of ethanol on the liver. In cirrhosis, the liver cells are replaced by fibrous scar tissue. Fibrosis leads to the development of portal hypertension. The development of cirrhosis is directly related to the duration and quantity of alcohol consumption. The manifestations of cirrhosis are related to the liver's inability to not adequately remove waste products from the bloodstream and the effects of portal hypertension. (15 Nov 1997) |