| CAAT | computer-assisted axial tomography |
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| CAT | California Achievement Test; capillary agglutination test; catalase; cataract; catecholamine; Childr... |
| CAT | scan computed axial tomography scan |
| LA | lactic acid; large amount; laser angioplasty; late abortion; late antigen; latex agglutination; left... |
| TANI | total axial [lymph] node irradiation |
| oblique projection | Any radiographic projection between frontal and lateral. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| 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) |
| lateral projection | Radiographic projection with the X-ray beam in a coronal plane. (05 Mar 2000) |
| frog-leg lateral projection | A lateral projection of the femoral neck made with the thigh maximally abducted. (05 Mar 2000) |