| EBM | electrophysiologic behavior modification; epidermal basement membrane; evidence-based medicine; expr... |
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| EMF | electromagnetic flowmeter; electromotive force; Emergency Medicine Foundation; endomyocardial fibros... |
| HM | hand movements; health maintenance; heart murmur; hemifacial microsomia; Holter monitoring; home man... |
| HML | human milk lysosome |
| HMRTE | human milk reverse transcriptase enzyme |
| milk sickness | An acute, often fatal disease caused by the ingestion of milk, milk products, or the flesh of cattle or sheep which have a disease known as trembles. It is marked by weakness, anorexia, vomiting, constipation, and sometimes muscular tremors. It is caused by poisoning by white snakeroot (eupatorium rugosum) and the rayless goldenrod (haplopappus heterophyllus). (12 Dec 1998) |
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| milk spots | White plaques of hyalinised fibrous tissue situated in the epicardium overlying the right ventricle of the heart where it is not covered by lung. Synonym: soldier's patches. White macroscopic areas in the omentum, due to accumulation of macrophages and lymphocytes. Synonym: tache laiteuse. (05 Mar 2000) |
| milk sugar | A disaccharide present in mammalian milk, used in infant formulas, large doses can act as a laxative. (27 Sep 1997) |
| milk tetter | An obsolete term for crusta lactea. (05 Mar 2000) |
| milk tooth | A tooth of the first set of teeth, comprising 20 in all, that erupts between the mean ages of 6 and 28 months of life. Synonym: dens deciduus, baby tooth, deciduous dentition, dens lacteus, first dentition, milk tooth, primary dentition, primary tooth, temporary tooth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| milk vetch | <botany> A leguminous herb (Astragalus glycyphyllos) of Europe and Asia, supposed to increase the secretion of milk in goats. The name is sometimes taken for the whole genus Astragalus, of which there are about two hundred species in North America, and even more elsewhere. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| modified milk | Cow's milk altered, by increasing the fat and reducing the amount of protein, to resemble human milk in composition. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pigeon's milk | A secretion formed by glands in the mucosa of the pigeon's crop with which the young are fed; it is increased under the influence of prolactin. Synonym: crop milk. (05 Mar 2000) |
| witch's milk | A secretion of colostrum-like milk sometimes occurring in the glands of newborn infants of either sex 3 to 4 days after birth and lasting a week or two; due to endocrine stimulation from the mother before birth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| condensed milk | A thick liquid prepared by the partial evaporation of cow's milk, with or without the addition of sugar. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wolf's-milk | <botany> Any kind of spurge (Euphorbia); so called from its acrid milky juice. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| crop milk | A secretion formed by glands in the mucosa of the pigeon's crop with which the young are fed; it is increased under the influence of prolactin. Synonym: crop milk. (05 Mar 2000) |
| skimmed milk | The aqueous (noncream) part of milk from which casein is isolated. (05 Mar 2000) |
| diphasic milk fever | tick-borne encephalitis (Central European subtype) |
| incontinence of milk | <endocrinology> The excessive or spontaneous flow of milk, persistent secretion of milk irrespective of nursing. Origin: Gr. Rhoia = flow (18 Nov 1997) |