| OG | obstetrics and gynecology; occlusogingival; oligodendrocyte; optic ganglion; orange green; orogastri... |
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| PAGMK | primary African green monkey kidney |
| SBG | selenite brilliant green |
| SIVagm | simian immunodeficiency virus from African green monkeys |
| TGD | thermal-green dye |
| MG | Malachite Green |
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| GTP | green tea |
| IA | indocyanine green angiography |
| R-G | red-green |
| green-leek | <zoology> An Australian parrakeet (Polytelis Barrabandi). Synonym: the scarlet-breasted parrot. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| green logging | The logging of timber that is still alive. (05 Dec 1998) |
| green monkey virus | <organism, virology> A filovirus that causes Marburg disease, a severe haemorrhagic fever developed in many people who work with African green monkeys. (18 Nov 1997) |
| green pus | Blue pus when, as sometimes happens, it has more of a green hue. (05 Mar 2000) |
| green revolution | Advances in genetics, petrochemicals, and machinery that culminated in adramatic increase in crop productivity during the third quarter of the20th century. (09 Oct 1997) |
| green sickness | Yellowing or bleaching of plant tissues due to the loss of chlorophyll or failure of chlorophyll synthesis. Symptomatic of many plant diseases, also of deficiencies of light or certain nutrients. (18 Nov 1997) |
| green soap | A soap made with vegetable oils, potassium hydroxide, oleic acid, glycerin, and purified water; used as a stimulant in chronic skin diseases. Synonym: green soap, soft soap. (05 Mar 2000) |
| green soap tincture | A liquid preparation containing potassium soaps and alcohol; frequently advocated in skin cleansing, particularly after exposure to plant toxins such as poison ivy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| green sputum | A green expectoration seen occasionally in jaundice, due to staining of the sputum by bile pigments. Synonym: green sputum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| green stain | <technique> A deposit, produced by chromogenic bacteria, found on the cervicolabial portions of the teeth, usually in children. See: acquired pellicle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| green sulfur bacteria | A group of green or brown bacteria of the families chlorobiaceae and chloroflexaceae that occur in aquatic sediments, sulfur springs, and hot springs and that utilise reduced sulfur compounds instead of oxygen. (12 Dec 1998) |
| green tobacco sickness | An illness of tobacco harvest workers characterised by headache, dizziness and vomiting. (05 Mar 2000) |
| green ton | 2,000 pounds of undried biomass material. Moisture content must be specified if green tons are used as a measure of fuel energy. (05 Dec 1998) |
| green tooth | Green to brown discoloration of the primary teeth associated with erythroblastosis foetalis and caused by deposition of haemoglobin pigments in the developing teeth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| green vision | A condition in which objects appear to be coloured green, as may occur in digitalis intoxication. Synonym: green vision. Origin: chloro-+ G. Opsis, eyesight (05 Mar 2000) |