| DGS | decompression sickness; developmental Gerstmann syndrome; diabetic glomerulosclerosis; Di George seq... |
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| HSRS | Health-Sickness Rating Scale |
| MSS | Marshall-Smith syndrome; massage; Medical Superintendents' Society; Medicare Statistical System; men... |
| S&A | sickness and accident [insurance]; sugar and acetone |
| SIP | Sickness Impact Profile; slow inhibitory potential; surface inductive plethysmography |
| lambing sickness | A highly fatal metabolic disease of well-nourished ewes in the late stages of pregnancy, especially in ewes carrying twin lambs; it is caused by carbohydrate depletion of the blood and tissues, and is characterised by hypoglycaemia, ketonuria, fatty infiltration of the liver, rapid emaciation, coma, and a high death rate. Synonym: lambing paralysis, lambing sickness. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| laughing sickness | See: pseudobulbar paralysis. (05 Mar 2000) |