| NHD | normal hair distribution |
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| OHC | occupational health center; outer hair cell |
| REEDS | retention of tears, ectrodactyly, ectodermal dysplasia, and strange hair, skin and teeth [syndrome] |
| 131I | radioactive Iodine(used in Thyroid uptake, Liver & Kidney Scans & Treatment of malignant & nonmalig... |
| TOC | Treatment Of Choice |
| EPSDT | Early and Periodic Screening Diagnosis and Treatment |
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| ECT | Electro-convulsive treatment |
| EORTC | European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer |
| EORTC | European Organisation for Research on Treatment of Cancer |
| FATS | Familial Atherosclerosis Treatment Study |
| Kenny's treatment | A method for the treatment of anterior poliomyelitis; the affected parts are wrapped in woolen cloth wrung out with hot water; after the acute stage of the disease has passed, the limbs are passively exercised to reeducate the paralysed muscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| late seral treatment | A treatment in which late seral species will be established after thinning. (05 Dec 1998) |
| full orthodontic treatment | <dentistry> Getting braces (08 Jan 1998) |
| light treatment | Treatment with light. For example, a newborn with jaundice may be put under the lights. (12 Dec 1998) |
| local treatment | Treatment that affects the tumour and the area close to it. (12 Dec 1998) |
| axillary hair | Hair of the armpit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bamboo hair | Hair with regularly spaced nodules along the shaft caused by intermittent fractures with invagination of the distal hair into the proximal portion, with intervening lengths of normal hair, giving the appearance of bamboo; seen in Netherton's syndrome; autosomal recessive trait. Synonym: trichorrhexis invaginata. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bayonet hair | A spindle-shaped developmental defect occurring at the tapered end of the hair. (05 Mar 2000) |
| beaded hair | An autosomal dominant trichodystrophy in which brittle hairs show a series of constrictions, usually without a medulla. Synonym: beaded hair, moniliform hair. Origin: L. Monile, necklace, + G. Thrix, hair (05 Mar 2000) |
| bulb of hair | Hair bulb, the lower expanded extremity of the hair follicle that fits like a cap over the papilla pili. Synonym: bulbus pili, hair bulb. (05 Mar 2000) |
| maid's hair | <botany> The yellow bedstraw (Galium verum). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| vellus hair | Colourless, soft, fine postnatal to adult hair. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cartilage-hair hypoplasia | An autosomal recessive form of dwarfism characterised by shortness of the extremities without skull defects, and with sparse, brittle hair of light colour. There is a peculiar, not adequately explained severity in the clinical course of varicella and herpes in such patients. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vestibular hair cells | Cell's in the sensory epithelium of the maculae and cristae of the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear; afferent and efferent nerve fibres of the vestibular nerve end synaptically upon them; from the apical end of each cell a bundle of stereocilia and a kinocilium extend into the statoconial membrane of the maculae and the cupula of the cristae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| caterpillar-hair ophthalmia | The presence of nodular swellings on the conjunctiva, due to penetration of ocular tissues by the hairs of caterpillars. Synonym: caterpillar-hair ophthalmia. (05 Mar 2000) |