| ENT | ear, nose, and throat; enzootic nasal tumor; extranodular tissue |
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| FA | false aneurysm; Families Anonymous; Fanconi anemia; far advanced; fatty acid; febrile antigen; femor... |
| FACAI | Fellow of the American College of Allergy and Immunology |
| INA | infectious nucleic acid; inferior nasal artery; International Neurological Association |
| INQ | interior nasal quadrant |
| equivocal symptom | A symptom that points definitely to no special disease, being associated with any one of a number of morbid states, or whose presence is uncertain or indefinite. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Uhthoff symptom | A transient temperature-dependent numbness, weakness, or loss of vision. Conduction stops in any nerve if the temperature gets too high. In a damaged nerve, e.g., by demyelinization, this shutdown temperature is lowered, and may approach normal body temperature. Transient neurological dysfunction may then appear with a hot shower, exercise, or fever. Synonym: Uhthoff syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Kerandel's symptom | Deep-seated hyperesthesia observed in cases of sleeping sickness. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Kussmaul's symptom | <clinical sign> In constrictive pericarditis, a paradoxical increase in venous distention and pressure during inspiration; seen occasionally in effusive-constrictive pericarditis when tamponading pericardial fluid overlies a constricting epicarditis. Synonym: Kussmaul's symptom. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Fischer's symptom | <clinical sign> An obsolete sign: in tuberculosis of the mediastinal or peri-bronchial glands, after bending the patient's head as far back as possible, auscultation over the manubrium sterni will sometimes reveal a continuous loud murmur caused by the pressure of the enlarged glands on the large mediastinal vessels. Synonym: Fischer's symptom. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Frenkel's symptom | Lowered muscular tonus in tabetic neurosyphilis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| localizing symptom | A symptom indicating clearly the seat of the morbid process. (05 Mar 2000) |
| local symptom | A symptom of limited extent, caused by disease of a particular organ or part. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acceptor control | <biochemistry> The regulation of the respiration rate, governed by ADP's ability to be a phosphate group acceptor. (06 May 1997) |
| anticipatory control | <physiology> The regulation of a system or process based on anticipated events, this isa feed-forward rather than a feedback system. (09 Oct 1997) |
| assist-control ventilation | Artificial respiration in which inspiration is produced automatically after a set interval if the person has not already begun to inspire. Compare: assisted ventilation, controlled ventilation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| autogenous control | <molecular biology> Regulation of how much a gene gets transcribed by the gene's own products. (02 Jan 1998) |
| aversive control | <psychology> Control of the behaviour of another individual by use of psychologically noxious means; e.g., attempting to force better study habits by withholding a child's allowance, or withholding sexual contact unless the partner complies with a request. (05 Mar 2000) |
| biological control | <agriculture> The agricultural use of living things, such as parasites, diseases, and predators, to control or eliminate others, such as weeds and pests, rather than by using chemicals (herbicides and pesticides). (21 Mar 1998) |
| birth control | Restriction of the number of offspring by means of contraceptive measures, projects, programs, or methods to control reproduction, by either improving or diminishing fertility. (05 Mar 2000) |