| SBR | small bowel resection; spleen-to-body [weight] ratio; strict bed rest; styrene-butadiene rubber |
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| SR | sarcoplasmic reticulum; saturation recovery; scanning radiometer; screen; secretion rate; sedimentat... |
| CEA | Carcino-Embryonic Antigen [HP 1825-6] ; Oncofetal Antigens ; Glycopro... |
| PNET | Primitive Neuro-Ectodermal(-Epithelial) Tumor |
| BET | benign epithelial tumor; bleeding esophageal varix; Brunauer-Emmet-Teller [method] |
| epithelial reticular cell | One of the many-branched epithelial cell's that collectively form the supporting stroma for lymphocytes in the thymus; believed to produce thymosin and other factors that control thymic function. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| epithelial tissue | See: epithelium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| juvenile epithelial corneal dystrophy | Epithelial dystrophy characterised by progressive cysts and opacities of the corneal epithelium, with onset in infancy. Inheritance: autosomal dominant with incomplete penetrance. Synonym: Meesman dystrophy. (22 Sep 2002) |
| focal epithelial hyperplasia | Hyperplasia of the mucous membrane of the lips, tongue, and less commonly, the buccal mucosa, floor of the mouth, and palate, presenting soft, painless, round to oval sessile papules about 1 to 4 mm in diameter. The condition usually occurs in children and young adults and has familial predilection, lasting for several months, sometimes years, before running its course. A viral aetiology is suspected, the isolated organism being usually the human papilloma virus. (12 Dec 1998) |
| follicular epithelial cell | <physiology> A cell lining a follicle such as that of the thyroid gland. (05 Mar 2000) |
| laminated epithelial plug | An accretion of epithelia in the external auditory canal. Synonym: laminated epithelial plug. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Fuchs' epithelial dystrophy | Epithelial oedema secondary to endothelial dystrophy of the cornea. (05 Mar 2000) |