| ECU | environmental control unit; extended care unit; extensor carpi ulnaris |
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| EF | ectopic focus; edema factor; ejection fraction; elastic fibril; electric field; elongation factor; e... |
| EHC | enterohepatic circulation; enterohepatic clearance; essential hypercholesterolemia; ethylhydrocuprei... |
| ELAS | extended lymphadenopathy syndrome |
| ELS | Eaton-Lambert syndrome; electron loss spectroscopy; extended least square; extracorporeal life suppo... |
| procedure | A series of steps by which a desired result is accomplished. Origin: L. Procedere, from pro = forward, cedere = move (18 Nov 1997) |
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| Puestow procedure | Longitudinal pancreaticojejunostomy for treatment of chronic pancreatitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| push-back procedure | A surgical manoeuvre designed to reposition the soft palate posteriorly and reestablish velopharyngeal competence. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Putti-Platt procedure | A procedure for recurrent dislocation of shoulder joint. Synonym: Putti-Platt procedure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shelf procedure | Insertion of a graft from the ilium into the roof of the acetabulum for congenital dislocation of the hip. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Snow procedure | Augmentation of the bladder by incision and excision of detrusor muscle leaving only bladder epithelium. Synonym: autocystoplasty, Snow procedure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| standard operating procedure | <microscopy> A written set of instructions detailing the normal procedures for operating a piece of equipment. WWW: Available online (05 Aug 1998) |
| Stanley Way procedure | A radical vulvectomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Nick's procedure | Enlarges the aortic annulus by incising the noncoronary sinus and the roof of the left atrium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Noble-Collip procedure | An obsolete procedure in which shock in rats is induced by rotating them in a drum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Norwood procedure | A complex procedure designed to treat aortic atresia with hypoplastic left heart syndrome; sometimes performed in two stages. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sugiura procedure | Oesophageal transection with paraesophageal devascularization, for oesophageal varices. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Damus-Kaye-Stancel procedure | A procedure for subaortic stenosis, entails the creation of an end-to-side pulmonary trunk/aortic anastomosis, performed along with a Fontan procedure, particularly for patients with a double inlet left ventricle. Synonym: Damus-Stancel-Kaye anastomosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dideoxy procedure | An enzymatic procedure for sequencing of DNA employing dideoxy nucleotides as chain terminators. See: Sanger method. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Dor procedure | A method of repairing congenital tunnel-type subaortic stenosis and narrowing of the left ventricular-aortic junction by aortoventriculoplasty and prosthetic valve replacement. Synonym: Dor procedure. (05 Mar 2000) |