| APM | Academy of Parapsychology and Medicine; Academy of Physical Medicine; Academy of Psychosomatic Medic... |
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| BCM | B-cell maturation; birth control medication; blood-clotting mechanism effects; body cell mass; body ... |
| BM | Bachelor of Medicine; barium meal; basal medium; basal metabolism; basement membrane; basilar membra... |
| CIM | cimetidine; cortically induced movement; Cumulated Index Medicus |
| CMT | California mastitis test; cancer multistep therapy; catechol methyltransferase; certified medical tr... |
| immunotherapy, active | Active immunization where vaccine is administered for therapeutic or preventive purposes. This can include administration of immunopotentiating agents such as bcg vaccine and corynebacterium parvum as well as biological response modifiers such as interferons, interleukins, and colony-stimulating factors in order to directly stimulate the immune system. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| optically active | <chemistry> A material which can rotate plane-polarized light. (09 Jan 1998) |
| tensio active | Having an effect on surface tension. (18 Nov 1997) |
| adversive movement | A rotation of the eyes, head, or trunk about the long axis of the body. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ameboid movement | The movement characteristic of leukocytes and protozoan organisms of the superclass Rhizopoda. See: streaming movement, filopodium, lobopodium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| amoeboid movement | <cell biology> Crawling movement of a cell brought about by the protrusion of pseudopods at the front of the cell (one or more may be seen in monopodial or polypodial amoebae, respectively). The pseudopods form distal anchorages with the surface. (05 Feb 1998) |
| assistive movement | In massage, a movement which the partially paralysed muscle of the patient would be unable to perform unaided but which is effected with the graduated assistance of the operator. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bennett movement | The bodily lateral movement or lateral shift of the mandible during a laterotrusive movement. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bowel movement | Defecation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| brownian movement | Erratic, nondirectional, zigzag movement observed by ultramicroscope in certain colloidal solutions and by microscope in suspensions of light particulate matter that results from the jostling or bumping of the larger particles by the molecules in the suspending medium which are regarded as being in continuous motion. Synonym: brownian motion, brownian-Zsigmondy movement, molecular movement, pedesis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| brownian-Zsigmondy movement | Erratic, nondirectional, zigzag movement observed by ultramicroscope in certain colloidal solutions and by microscope in suspensions of light particulate matter that results from the jostling or bumping of the larger particles by the molecules in the suspending medium which are regarded as being in continuous motion. Synonym: brownian motion, brownian-Zsigmondy movement, molecular movement, pedesis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Magnan's trombone movement | An involuntary forward and back movement of the tongue when it is drawn out of the mouth; may be seen in several basal ganglia disorders. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mandibular movement | Movement's of the lower jaw, all changes in position of which the mandible is capable. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rapid eye movement sleep | REM sleep, that state of deep sleep in which rapid eye movements, alert EEG pattern, and dreaming occur; several central and autonomic functions are distinctive during this state. (05 Mar 2000) |
| paradoxical movement of eyelids | Spontaneous, involuntary elevation or lowering of the eyelids, associated with movement of extraocular muscles or muscles of mastication (external pterygoids). See: jaw winking. (05 Mar 2000) |