| FMD | facility medical director; family medical doctor; fibromuscular dysplasia; foot and mouth disease; f... |
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| HED | hereditary ectodermal dysplasia; hydrotropic electron-donor; hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia; unit... |
| CIN | Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia |
| CMT | Cervical Mucous Test |
| CMV | 1) Cyto-Megalo-Virus Presents 1. M... |
| faciodigitogenital dysplasia | A syndrome of ocular hypertelorism, anteverted nostrils, broad upper lip, saddle-bag scrotum, and laxity of ligaments resulting in genu recurvatum, flat feet, and hyperextensible fingers; X-linked and autosomal dominant forms. Synonym: Aarskog-Scott syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| familial white folded dysplasia | An autosomal dominant condition of the oral cavity characterised by soft, white or opalescent, thickened and corrugated folds of mucous membrane; other mucosal sites are occasionally involved simultaneously. Synonym: familial white folded dysplasia, oral epithelial nevus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fibromuscular dysplasia | <radiology> Beaded segment of artery, medial type most common, F more than M, renal arteries, most common vessels, R more than L, mid and distal 1/3 (Differential diagnosis: atherosclerosis - ostium/proximal) (12 Dec 1998) |
| fibrous dysplasia | A condition of cystic bone growth that results from abnormal bone development. May occur with bone lesions, skin pigmentation and endocrine abnormalities. See: McCune-Albright syndrome. Origin: Gr. Plassein = to form (27 Sep 1997) |
| fibrous dysplasia, monostotic | Fibrous dysplasia of bone involving only one bone. (12 Dec 1998) |
| fibrous dysplasia of bone | A disease of bone marked by thinning of the cortex and replacement of bone marrow by gritty fibrous tissue containing bony spicules, producing pain, disability, and gradually increasing deformity. Only one bone may be involved (fibrous dysplasia, monostotic) or several (fibrous dysplasia, polyostotic). (12 Dec 1998) |
| fibrous dysplasia of jaws | <radiology> Hereditary form of polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, involves mandible (12 Dec 1998) |
| fibrous dysplasia, polyostotic | Fibrous dysplasia of bone affecting several or many bones. When associated with melanotic pigmentation of the skin and endocrine disorders, it is known as albright's syndrome. (12 Dec 1998) |
| florid osseous dysplasia | Benign fibro-osseous jaw lesions of unknown aetiology, occurring predominantly in middle-aged black females, which present as large painless radiopaque masses usually involving several quadrants of the jaw. Synonym: florid osseous dysplasia, cemental dysplasia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lymphopenic thymic dysplasia | An obsolete term for thymic alymphoplasia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anterior cervical intertransversarii muscles | Origin, anterior tubercle of cervical transverse process; insertion, anterior tubercle of next superior transverse process; action, abducts cervical vertebrae; nerve supply, ventral branch of cervical nerves. Synonym: musculi intertransversarii anteriores cervicis, anterior cervical intertransverse muscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anterior cervical intertransverse muscles | Origin, anterior tubercle of cervical transverse process; insertion, anterior tubercle of next superior transverse process; action, abducts cervical vertebrae; nerve supply, ventral branch of cervical nerves. Synonym: musculi intertransversarii anteriores cervicis, anterior cervical intertransverse muscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anterior cervical lymph nodes | The group of lymph nodes located in the anterior region of the neck, divided into superficial and deep groups. Synonym: nodi lymphatici cervicales anteriores. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anterior deep cervical lymph nodes | The lymph nodes near the larynx, trachea, and thyroid gland. Synonym: nodi lymphatici cervicales anteriores profundi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anterior superficial cervical lymph nodes | The lymph nodes in the subcutaneous tissue of the anterior region of the neck. Synonym: nodi lymphatici cervicales anteriores superficiales. (05 Mar 2000) |