| AR | absolute risk; accounts receivable; achievement ratio; actinic reticuloid [syndrome]; active resista... |
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| A/R | apical/radial |
| CAP | camptodactyly-arthropathy-pericarditis [syndrome]; Canada Assistance Plan; capsule; captopril; catab... |
| SAX-APEX | short-axis plane, apical |
| projection fibres | Nerve fibre's connecting the cerebral cortex with other centres in the brain or spinal cord; fibres arising from cells in the central nervous system that pass to distant loci. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| projection lens | <microscopy> The final lens in the electron microscope. The lens focuses the electrons onto a fluorescent screen to produce the visible image. (05 Aug 1998) |
| projection perimeter | A perimeter that uses as target a spot of light that can be adjusted rapidly as to size, brightness, and colour, and moves silently at any desired speed. (05 Mar 2000) |
| projection system | The system of axons carrying stimuli from one portion of the nervous system to other portions. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Stenvers projection | Oblique radiographic projection of the skull devised to provide an unobstructed view of the petrous bone, bony labyrinth, internal auditory canal, and meatus. Synonym: Stenvers view. (05 Mar 2000) |
| submental vertex projection | Radiographic projection devised to obtain direct visualization of the base of the skull. Synonym: axial view, base projection, submental vertex projection, submentovertical projection, verticosubmental view. (05 Mar 2000) |
| submentovertical projection | Radiographic projection devised to obtain direct visualization of the base of the skull. Synonym: axial view, base projection, submental vertex projection, submentovertical projection, verticosubmental view. (05 Mar 2000) |
| oblique projection | Any radiographic projection between frontal and lateral. (05 Mar 2000) |
| occipitomental projection | A PA radiographic view of the skull made with the orbitomeatal line at an angle of 37 |
| Towne projection | Reverse tilted AP radiographic projection devised to permit demonstration of the entire occipital bone, foramen magnum, and dorsum sellae, as well as the petrous ridges. Synonym: half axial view, half-axial projection, Towne view. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Towne projection radiograph | See: Towne projection. (05 Mar 2000) |
| enamel projection | Extension of enamel into furcation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| erroneous projection | <ophthalmology> The faulty visual sensation arising secondarily to underaction of an ocular muscle. Synonym: erroneous projection. (05 Mar 2000) |
| false projection | <ophthalmology> The faulty visual sensation arising secondarily to underaction of an ocular muscle. Synonym: erroneous projection. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Fischer projection formula | <biochemistry> Of sugars, representations, by projection, of cyclic sugars, or derivatives thereof, in which the carbon chain is depicted vertically. The lowest-numbered asymmetric carbon atom (C-1 in aldoses; C-2 in 2-ketoses, e.g., fructose) is drawn at the top, and the rest of the carbon atoms of the chain are drawn in sequence below the top carbon atom. For each carbon atom, depicted in projection as lying in the plane of the paper, the carbon-to-carbon bond(s), which actually point away from the viewer, are drawn as vertical lines. The left-hand and right-hand bonds of each carbon atom, which actually point toward the viewer, are, in projection, depicted as horizontal lines. The conventions for the Fischer formulas of cyclic sugars are as follows: 1) if the highest-numbered asymmetric carbon atom has its OH (or its replacement) lying to the right, as is the 2-OH of d-glyceraldehyde, the sugar has the d configuration; if the OH is to the left, the sugar has the l configuration. 2) On the anomeric carbon atom (C-1 in the aldoses; C-2 in the 2-ketoses), an OH or substituted OH that lies to the right, with the OH of the highest-numbered asymmetric carbon atom also to the right is defined to be a; if it is to the left, with the OH of the highest-numbered carbon atom still to the right, it is b; the reverse applies if the latter OH is to the left. 3) The orientation of a terminal CH2OH group in the aldoses carries no configurational significance, as it contains no asymmetric carbon atom. (05 Mar 2000) |