| DHF | dengue hemorrhagic fever; dihydrofolate; dorsihyperflexion |
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| DHF/DSS | dengue hemorrhagic fever/ dengue shock syndrome |
| DMF | decayed, missing, and filled [teeth]; N,N-dimethylformamide; diphasic milk fever |
| EAHF | eczema, asthma, and hay fever |
| EFC | elastin fragment concentration; endogenous fecal calcium; ephemeral fever of cattle |
| haemorrhagic pericarditis | Pericarditis with bloodstained effusion. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| haemorrhagic pian | A late, eruptive stage of bartonellosis; characterised by soft conical or pedunculated vascular papules anywhere on the skin or mucous membranes from miliary size to several centimeters, resolving without scars after a few months. Synonym: haemorrhagic pian, Peruvian wart, verruca peruana, verruca peruviana. (05 Mar 2000) |
| haemorrhagic plague | The haemorrhagic form of bubonic plague. (05 Mar 2000) |
| haemorrhagic pleurisy | Pleurisy with an effusion of blood-stained serum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| haemorrhagic rickets | Bone changes seen in infantile scurvy, consisting of subperiosteal haemorrhage and deficient osteoid tissue formation; often used to indicate simultaneous occurrence of rickets and scurvy. Synonym: acute rickets. Hereditary hypophosphatemic rickets, with hypercalciuria, an inherited disorder in which there is a defect in renal tubular reabsorption. (05 Mar 2000) |
| haemorrhagic scurvy | Scurvy with extensive haemorrhages in gums, skin and other tissues, typical of severe stage of the disease. Infantile scurvy, osteopathia haemorrhagia infantum;a cachectic condition in infants, resulting from malnutrition and marked by pallor, fetid breath, coated tongue, diarrhoea, and subperiosteal haemorrhages; probably a combination of scurvy and rickets due to combined deficiency of vitamins C and D. Synonym: Barlow's disease, Cheadle's disease, osteopathia haemorrhagica infantum, scurvy rickets. Land scurvy, formerly, scurvy occurring in people who had not been to sea. (05 Mar 2000) |
| haemorrhagic septicaemia | <microbiology> Haemorrhagic septicaemia is an infectious disease of cattle and buffalo which is caused by the bacteria Pasteurella multocida. Symptoms include fever, appetite loss, and drooling. It appears as a result of stress from malnutrition, exhaustion, or lengthy transportation. (09 Oct 1997) |
| haemorrhagic shock | Hypovolaemic shock resulting from acute haemorrhage, characterised by hypotension, tachycardia, pale, cold, and clammy skin, and oliguria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| haemorrhagic smallpox | A severe and frequently fatal form of smallpox accompanied by extravasation of blood into the skin in the early stage, or into the pustules at a later stage, accompanied often by nosebleed and haemorrhage from other orifices of the body. Synonym: fulminating smallpox, variola haemorrhagica. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia | <gastroenterology> An inherited disease characterised by thin blood vessel walls in the nose, skin and gastrointestinal tract. This condition ins associated with a high risk of bleeding complications. Inheritance: autosomal dominant. (27 Sep 1997) |
| hereditary haemorrhagic thrombasthenia | <haematology> A form of congenital platelet functional defect that result in prolongation of the bleeding time. Characteristics include mucosal and post-operative bleeding that may be severe. (17 Dec 1997) |
| superior haemorrhagic polioencephalitis | <syndrome> A condition frequently encountered in chronic alcoholics, largely due to thiamin deficiency and characterised by disturbances in ocular motility, pupillary alterations, nystagmus, and ataxia with tremors; an organic-toxic psychosis is often an associated finding, and Korsakoff's syndrome often coexists; characteristic cellular pathology found in several areas of the brain. Synonym: superior haemorrhagic polioencephalitis, Wernicke's disease, Wernicke's encephalopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| infantile acute haemorrhagic oedema of the skin | A generally benign form of cutaneous vasculitis, characterised by ecchymotic purpura, often in a cockade pattern, and inflammatory oedema in infants. (05 Mar 2000) |
| telangiectasia, hereditary haemorrhagic | An autosomal dominant vascular anomaly characterised by the presence of multiple small telangiectases of the skin, mucous membranes, gastrointestinal tract, and other organs, associated with recurrent episodes of bleeding from affected sites and gross or occult melena. (12 Dec 1998) |
| thrombocythemia, haemorrhagic | A clinical syndrome characterised by repeated spontaneous haemorrhages and a remarkable increase in the number of circulating platelets. (12 Dec 1998) |