| COOP | charts for primary care practices; cooperative |
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| COPC | community oriented primary care |
| CPH | Certificate in Public Health; chronic paroxysmal hemicrania; chronic persistent hepatitis; chronic p... |
| CUP | carcinoma unknown primary |
| DPC | delayed primary closure; desaturated phosphatidylcholine; diethylpyrocarbonate; direct patient care;... |
primary immune response (일차 면역 반응
| primary cementum | Cementum that has no cementocytes; may cover the entire root of the tooth, but often is missing on the apical third of the root. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| primary centre of ossification | This is the first site where bone begins to form in the shaft of a long bone or in the body of an irregular bone. Synonym: punctum ossificationis primarium, primary point of ossification. (05 Mar 2000) |
| primary choana | Primitive choana, initial opening of the nasal pits and olfactory sac of the embryo into the rostral part of the primordial oronasal cavity, before the formation of the secondary palate. (05 Mar 2000) |
| primary colour | The three colour's of the retinal cone pigments (red, green, blue) that may be combined to match any hue. Synonym: simple colour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| primary complex | The typical lesions of primary pulmonary tuberculosis, consisting of a small peripheral focus of infection, with hilar or paratracheal lymph node involvement. (05 Mar 2000) |
| primary constriction | The narrowing between the two arms of the chromosome represented by the centromere. (05 Mar 2000) |
| primary dental lamina | dental ledge |
| primary dentin | Dentin which forms until the root is completed. (05 Mar 2000) |
| primary dentition | The set of 20 first (deciduous) teeth. The primary dentition is as opposed to the secondary (permanent) dentition. at birth, both sets of dentition are evident by X-ray. (12 Dec 1998) |
| primary deviation | The ocular deviation seen in paralysis of an ocular muscle when the nonparalysed eye is used for fixation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| primary digestion | Digestion in the alimentary tract. (05 Mar 2000) |
| primary disease | A disease that arises spontaneously and is not associated with or caused by a previous disease, injury, or event, but which may lead to a secondary disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| primary dried yeast | A source of dried yeast; obtained from suitable strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae grown in media other than those required for the production of beer. (05 Mar 2000) |
| primary drives | Those drives such as hunger and thirst which stem from the biological needs of an organism. Synonym: primary drives. (05 Mar 2000) |
| primary dysmenorrhoea | <gynaecology> Painful menses due to a functional disturbance and not due to organic factors such as growths, inflammation or anatomy. (06 Mar 1998) |