| AO | abdominal aorta; achievement orientation; acid output; acridine orange; ankle orthosis; anodal openi... |
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| AOC | abridged ocular chart; amyloxycarbonyl; anodal opening contraction; area of concern |
| AOCl | anodal opening clonus |
| AOO | anodal opening odor; atrial asynchronous (competitive, fixed-rate) [pacemaker] |
| AOP | anodal opening picture; aortic pressure |
| unidirectional block | Block that prevents passage of an impulse when it approaches from one direction but not from the other, as when block in the A-V node prevents anterograde conduction to the ventricles while retrograde conduction to the atria remains intact. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| field block | Regional anaesthesia produced by infiltration of local anaesthetic solution into tissues surrounding an operative field. (05 Mar 2000) |
| field block anaesthesia | Conduction anaesthesia in which small nerves are not anaesthetised individually, as in nerve block anaesthesia, but instead are blocked en masse by local anaesthetic solution injected to form a barrier proximal to the operative site. (05 Mar 2000) |
| first degree A-V block | See: atrioventricular block. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fish-block | See Fish-tackle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| local nerve block | Infiltration of a local anesthetic around a peripheral nerve so as to produce anesthesia in the area supplied by the nerve. (16 Dec 1997) |