| ACSE | association control service element |
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| ADS | acute death syndrome; acute diarrheal syndrome; Alcohol Dependence Scale; alternative delivery syste... |
| AHFS | American Hospital Formulary Service |
| AHS | Academy of Health Sciences; African horse sickness; alveolar hypoventilation syndrome; American Hear... |
| AHSDF | area health service development fund |
| thyroid crisis | Sudden and dangerous increase of the symptoms of thyrotoxicosis. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| thyrotoxic crisis | Thyroid crisis, the exacerbation of symptoms that occurs in severe thyrotoxicosis; can follow shock or injury or thyroidectomy; marked by rapid pulse (140 to 170 per minute), nausea, diarrhoea, fever, loss of weight, extreme nervousness, and a sudden rise in the metabolic rate; coma and death may occur; occasionally the entire clinical picture is that of profound prostration, weakness, and collapse, without the phase of muscular overactivity and tachycardia. Synonym: thyroid storm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| febrile crisis | The stage in a febrile disease when spontaneous defervescence occurs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| laryngeal crisis | An attack of paralysis of the abductor, or spasm of the adductor, muscles of the larynx with dyspnea and noisy respiration, occurring in tabetic neurosyphilis. (05 Mar 2000) |