| SHLD | shoulder |
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| SITS | supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor, subscapularis [shoulder muscles comprising the rotator cu... |
| SPS | scapuloperoneal syndrome; shoulder pain and stiffness; simple partial seizures; slow-progressive sch... |
| SSI | segmental sequential irradiation; shoulder subluxation inhibition; small-scale integration; Social S... |
| TSA | technical surgical assistance; toluene sulfonic acid; total shoulder arthroplasty; total solute abso... |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
| Lennert's lesion | <tumour> Malignant lymphoma with a high proportion of diffusely scattered epithelioid cells, tonsillar involvement, and an unpredictable course. Synonym: Lennert's lesion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lesion | <pathology> Any pathological or traumatic discontinuity of tissue or loss of function of a part. Origin: L. Laesio, laedere = to hurt (18 Nov 1997) |
| Lohlein-Baehr lesion | Focal embolic glomerulonephritis occurring in bacterial endocarditis. Synonym: Baehr-Lohlein lesion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lower motor neuron lesion | Injury to motor cells in the brainstem or spinal cord, or of the axons derived from them. (05 Mar 2000) |