| QUICHA | quantitative inhalation challenge apparatus |
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| IPPB | Intermittent Positive Pressure Breathing; 간헐적 양압 호흡 |
| MBC | 1) Maximal Breathing Capacity 2) Minimal Bactericidal Concentration |
| MBV | Maximal Breathing Volume = MVV |
| AABCC | alertness (consciousness), airway, breathing, circulation, cervical spine |
| Golgi apparatus | <cell biology> Intracellular stack of membrane bounded vesicles in which glycosylation and packaging of secreted proteins takes place. Part of the GERL complex. Synonym: Golgi body, Golgi vesicles, dictyosome (in plants), parabasal body (in flagellate protozoa). (11 Jan 1998) |
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| mental apparatus | Mental structure consisting of thoughts, feelings, cognitions, and memories; in psychoanalysis, the topographic structure of the mind. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chromatic apparatus | The deeply staining mass of chromosomes in a dividing cell. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chromidial apparatus | The aggregate of extranuclear network, irregular strands, and masses of basophilic staining material permeating the protoplasm of the cell. See: ribosome, endoplasmic reticulum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Roughton-Scholander apparatus | A syringe-like device for analyzing the respiratory gases in a small sample of blood. Synonym: Roughton-Scholander syringe. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mitotic apparatus | See: mitosis, spindle fibre. (18 Nov 1997) |
| mitotic spindle apparatus | An organelle consisting of three components: 1) the astral microtubules, which form around each centrosome and extend to the periphery; 2) the polar microtubules which extend from one spindle pole to the equator; and 3) the kinetochore microtubules, which connect the centromeres of the various chromosomes to either centrosome. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Warburg's apparatus | An apparatus for measuring the oxygen consumption of incubated tissue slices by manometric measurement of changes in gas pressure produced by oxygen absorption in an enclosed flask. Synonym: Barcroft-Warburg apparatus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Haldane's apparatus | <apparatus, chest medicine> A device used for the analysis of respiratory gases. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sayre's suspension apparatus | Archaic term for Sayre's suspension traction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Scholander apparatus | A device used for determining the oxygen and carbon dioxide percentage in 0.5 ml of a respiratory gas. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Heyns' abdominal decompression apparatus | A vacuum chamber enclosing the abdomen of the pregnant woman, creating pressure during the first stage of labour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pyriform apparatus | A pear-shaped structure within the eggshell of certain tapeworms (family Anoplocephalidae), of uncertain function. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hyoid apparatus | <veterinary> A veterinary anatomy term for hyoid bones, a modified portion of the ancestral branchial skeleton consisting of an articulated chain of bones extending from the mastoid region of the skull on each side to the base of the tongue. In humans, it is reduced to a single bone, os hyoideum; in a typical mammal (the dog), it consists of a tympanohyoid cartilage attached to the skull, followed by the stylohyoid, epihyoid, keratohyoid, basihyoid, and thyrohyoid bones. Synonym: apparatus hyoideus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| subneural apparatus | Modified sarcoplasm in a motor end-plate. (05 Mar 2000) |