| CPIP | chronic pulmonary insufficiency of prematurity |
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| DEFIANT | Doppler Flow and Echocardiography in Functional Cardiac Insufficiency Assessment of Nisoldipine Ther... |
| DVI | deep venous insufficiency; diastolic velocity integral; digital vascular imaging; Doppler velocity i... |
| EDCI | energetic dynamic cardiac insufficiency |
| GESICA | Argentinian Study Group for the Prevention of Cardiac Insufficiency [Grupo de Estudio de la Sobrevid... |
| common hepatic artery | <anatomy, artery> Origin, coeliac; branches, right gastric, gastroduodenal, and proper hepatic. Synonym: arteria hepatica communis. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| common hepatic duct | The part of the biliary duct system that is formed by the confluence of right and left hepatic ducts. at the porta hepatis it is joined by the cystic duct to become the common bile duct. Synonym: ductus hepaticus communis, hepatocystic duct. (05 Mar 2000) |
| constitutional hepatic dysfunction | Mild jaundice due to increased amounts of unconjugated bilirubin in the plasma without evidence of liver damage, biliary obstruction, or haemolysis; thought to be due to an inborn error of metabolism in which the excretion of bilirubin by the liver is defective, ascribed to decreased conjugation of bilirubin as a glucuronide or impaired uptake of hepatic bilirubin. Synonym: benign familial icterus, constitutional hepatic dysfunction, Gilbert's disease, Gilbert's syndrome, Hebra's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| porphyria, hepatic | Porphyria in which the liver is the site where excess formation of porphyrin or its precursors is found. Porphyria, acute intermittent and porphyria cutanea tarda are types of hepatic porphyria. (12 Dec 1998) |
| portoenterostomy, hepatic | Operation for biliary atresia by anastomosis of the bile ducts into the jejunum or duodenum. (12 Dec 1998) |
| posterior branch of right hepatic duct | Hepatic duct branch draining bile from posterior segments of right lobe of liver. Synonym: ramus posterior ductus hepatici dextri. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hepatic | <anatomy> Pertaining to the liver. Origin: L. Hepaticus, Gr. Hepatikos (18 Nov 1997) |
| hepatic adenoma | <radiology> Liver cell adenoma (LCA), rare, benign, F more than M, atypical hepatocytes, no bile ducts or Kuppfer cells (unlike FNH), haemorrhage common, NM: cold nodule associated with: oral contraceptives, type 1 glycogen storage disease (von Gierke) (12 Dec 1998) |
| hepatic amoebiasis | Infection of the liver with Entamoeba histolytica; may occur with or without antecedent amoebic dysentery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hepatic arteries | Arteries involved in supplying blood to the liver. See: common hepatic artery, proper hepatic artery, left hepatic artery, right hepatic artery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hepatic artery | <anatomy, artery> A branch of the coeliac artery that distributes to the stomach, pancreas, duodenum, liver, gallbladder, and greater omentum. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hepatic branches of vagus nerve | <anatomy, nerve> Branches of the anterior and posterior vagal trunks distributed to the liver. Synonym: rami hepatici nervi vagi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hepatic capsulitis | Inflammation of the serous, or peritoneal, covering of the liver. Synonym: hepatic capsulitis, hepatitis externa, hepatoperitonitis. Origin: peri-+ G. Hepar, liver, + -itis, inflammation (05 Mar 2000) |
| hepatic colic | Intense spasmodic pain felt in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen from impaction of a gallstone in the cystic duct. Synonym: gallstone colic, hepatic colic. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hepatic coma | A condition of severe end-stage liver dysfunction that is accompanied by unresponsiveness (coma). A feature of hepatic encephalopathy. (27 Sep 1997) |