| AER | abduction/external rotation; acoustic evoked response; acute exertional rhabdomyolysis; agranular en... |
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| AKS | alcoholic Korsakoff syndrome; auditory and kinesthetic sensation |
| AMS | ablepharon-microstomia syndrome; acute mountain sickness; adenosylmethionine synthetase; aggravated ... |
| ANAS | anastomosis; auditory nerve activating substance |
| AOR | Alvarado Orthopedic Research [instruments]; auditory oculogyric reflex |
| facet joints | The synovial joints between zygapophyses or articular processes of the vertebrae. Synonym: articulationes zygapophyseales, facet joints, interarticular joints, juncturae zygapophyseales. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| uncovertebral joints | Small synovial joint's between adjacent lateral lips of the bodies of the lower cervical vertebrae. Synonym: Luschka's joints. (05 Mar 2000) |
| zygapophyseal joints | The synovial joints between zygapophyses or articular processes of the vertebrae. Synonym: articulationes zygapophyseales, facet joints, interarticular joints, juncturae zygapophyseales. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Lisfranc's joints | The three synovial joints between the tarsal and metatarsal bones, consisting of a medial joint between the first cuneiform and first metatarsal, an intermediate joint between the second and third cuneiforms and corresponding metatarsals, and a lateral joint between the cuboid and fourth and fifth metatarsals. Synonym: articulationes tarsometatarseae, cuneometatarsal joints, Lisfranc's joints. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Luschka's joints | Small synovial joint's between adjacent lateral lips of the bodies of the lower cervical vertebrae. Synonym: Luschka's joints. (05 Mar 2000) |
| air cells of auditory tube | Occasional small air cells in the inferior wall of the auditory tube, near the tympanic orifice, communicating with the tympanic cavity. Synonym: cellulae pneumaticae tubae auditivae, air cells of auditory tube. (05 Mar 2000) |
| auditory | <otolaryngology> Pertaining to the sense of hearing. Origin: L. Auditorius (18 Nov 1997) |
| auditory agnosia | The inability to recognise sounds, words, or music; caused by a lesion of the auditory cortex of the temporal lobe. (05 Mar 2000) |
| auditory alternans | Alternation in the intensity of heart sounds or murmurs in the presence of a regular cardiac rhythm as a result of alternation of the heart. Synonym: auditory alternans. (05 Mar 2000) |
| auditory aphasia | An impairment in comprehension of the auditory forms of language and communication, including the ability to write from dictation in the presence of normal hearing. Spontaneous speech, reading, and writing are not affected. Synonym: acoustic aphasia, word deafness. (05 Mar 2000) |
| auditory area | Area of the temporal lobe concerned with hearing. (12 Dec 1998) |
| auditory brainstem response audiometry | An electrophysiologic measure of auditory function utilizing responses produced by the auditory nerve and the brainstem to repetitive acoustic stimuli. (05 Mar 2000) |
| auditory canal | The passage leading inward through the tympanic portion of the temporal bone, from the auricle to the tympanic membrane; it consists of a bony (inner) portion and a fibrocartilaginous (outer) portion, the cartilaginous external acoustic meatus. Synonym: meatus acusticus externus, acoustic meatus, antrum auris, auditory canal, external auditory meatus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| auditory capsule | The cartilage that, in the embryo, surrounds the developing auditory vesicle and develops into the bony labyrinth of the inner ear. (05 Mar 2000) |
| auditory cortex | Area of the temporal lobe concerned with hearing. (12 Dec 1998) |