| REM | 1) Rapid Eye Movement; 급속 안구 운동 2) Radiation Equivalent to Man |
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| SOREM | Sleep Onset Rapid Eye Movement |
| A/C | albumin/coagulin [ratio]; anterior chamber of eye; assist control [ventilation] |
| BES | balanced electrolyte solution; Baltimore Eye Study |
| BEV | baboon endogenous virus; beam's eye view |
| idiopathic fibrous retroperitonitis | <radiology> Ureters tapered or obstructed, most severe at L4-5, ureters deviated medially, Treatment: symptomatic; steroids have ? long-term benefit Differential diagnosis: malignancy, lymphoma (especially Hodgkin's), metastasis from colon and breast, retroperitoneal sarcoma, drugs, methysergide (Sansert), haemorrhage, aortic aneurysm, trauma or surgery, inflammation, Crohn's disease, diverticulitis, pancreatitis, extravasated urine, radiation (12 Dec 1998) |
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| inflammatory fibrous hyperplasia | Overgrowth of tissue in the mucobuccal or labial fold, induced by chronic trauma from ill-fitting dentures. Synonym: denture hyperplasia, epulis fissuratum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fibrous | Composed of or containing fibroblasts, and also the fibrils and fibres of connective tissue formed by such cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fibrous adhesion | Fibrous strands resulting from the organization of fibrinous adhesion's. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fibrous ankylosis | Stiffening of a joint due to the presence of fibrous bands between and about the bones forming the joint. Synonym: false ankylosis, pseudankylosis. Intracapsular ankylosis, stiffness of a joint due to the presence of bony or fibrous adhesions between the articular surfaces of the joint. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fibrous appendix of liver | A fibrous process, into which the tip of the left lobe of the liver may taper out, that passes with the left triangular ligament to be attached to the diaphragm. Synonym: appendix fibrosa hepatis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fibrous articular capsule | The outer fibrous part of the capsule of a synovial joint, which may in places be thickened to form capsular ligaments. Synonym: membrana fibrosa, stratum fibrosum, fibrous membrane. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fibrous astrocyte | Stellate astrocytic cell with long processes found mainly in the white matter of the brain and spinal cord and characterised by having bundles of glial filaments in its cytoplasm; origin of most astrocytomas. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fibrous bacterial viruses | Deoxyribonucleoproteins that "infect" and replicate in Gram-negative bacteria having sex pili and that, unlike bacteriophage, are released from infected bacteria without damage to the cell; they seem to be of two kinds, one of which has a specificity for F pili and the other for I pili. Synonym: fibrous bacterial viruses. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fibrous capsule | Any fibrous envelope of a part. The fibrous capsule of an organ. Synonym: stratum fibrosum, tunica fibrosa, capsula fibrosa. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fibrous capsule of kidney | A fibrous membrane ensheathing the kidney. Synonym: capsula fibrosa renis, tunica fibrosa renis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fibrous capsule of liver | A layer of connective tissue ensheathing the hepatic artery, portal vein, and bile ducts as these ramify within the liver. Synonym: capsula fibrosa perivascularis, perivascular fibrous capsule. Connective tissue capsule surrounding the outer surface of the liver, but continuous with septae of some animals which divide parenchyme into lobule, and with the perivascular fibrous capsule at the porta hepatis. Synonym: tunica fibrosa hepatis, Glisson's capsule. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fibrous capsule of parotid gland | The part of the investing cervical fascia that ensheaths the parotid gland and is fixed above to the zygomatic arch. Synonym: fascia parotidea, fibrous capsule of parotid gland, parotid sheath. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fibrous capsule of spleen | The fibrous capsule of the spleen, containing collagen, elastic fibres, and smooth muscle. Synonym: tunica fibrosa splenis, tunica fibrosa lienis, capsula lienis, tunica propria lienis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fibrous capsule of thyroid gland | The fibrous sheath of the thyroid gland. Synonym: capsula fibrosa glandulae thyroideae. (05 Mar 2000) |