| QUICHA | quantitative inhalation challenge apparatus |
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| RBA | relative binding affinity; rescue breathing apparatus; right basilar artery; right brachial artery; ... |
| SCBA | self-contained breathing apparatus |
| SCUBA | self-contained underwater breathing apparatus |
| masticatory apparatus | The organs and structures primarily functioning in mastication: the jaws, teeth with their supporting structures, temporomandibular joint, muscles of mastication, tongue, lips, cheeks, and oral mucosa. Synonym: dental apparatus, masticatory apparatus. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| vestibular apparatus | <anatomy> The receptor organ of the vestibular portion of the 8th cranial nerve, consisting of the three saemicircular canals and the otolith, located within the petrous portion of the temporal bone of the skull. (05 Mar 2000) |
| central apparatus | The centrosome and centrosphere. (05 Mar 2000) |
| respiratory apparatus | The organs that are involved in breathing. These include the nose, throat, larynx, trachea, bronchi, and lungs. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Golgi apparatus | <cell biology> Intracellular stack of membrane bounded vesicles in which glycosylation and packaging of secreted proteins takes place. Part of the GERL complex. Synonym: Golgi body, Golgi vesicles, dictyosome (in plants), parabasal body (in flagellate protozoa). (11 Jan 1998) |
| mental apparatus | Mental structure consisting of thoughts, feelings, cognitions, and memories; in psychoanalysis, the topographic structure of the mind. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chromatic apparatus | The deeply staining mass of chromosomes in a dividing cell. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chromidial apparatus | The aggregate of extranuclear network, irregular strands, and masses of basophilic staining material permeating the protoplasm of the cell. See: ribosome, endoplasmic reticulum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Roughton-Scholander apparatus | A syringe-like device for analyzing the respiratory gases in a small sample of blood. Synonym: Roughton-Scholander syringe. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Warburg's apparatus | An apparatus for measuring the oxygen consumption of incubated tissue slices by manometric measurement of changes in gas pressure produced by oxygen absorption in an enclosed flask. Synonym: Barcroft-Warburg apparatus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Haldane's apparatus | <apparatus, chest medicine> A device used for the analysis of respiratory gases. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sayre's suspension apparatus | Archaic term for Sayre's suspension traction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Scholander apparatus | A device used for determining the oxygen and carbon dioxide percentage in 0.5 ml of a respiratory gas. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Heyns' abdominal decompression apparatus | A vacuum chamber enclosing the abdomen of the pregnant woman, creating pressure during the first stage of labour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pyriform apparatus | A pear-shaped structure within the eggshell of certain tapeworms (family Anoplocephalidae), of uncertain function. (05 Mar 2000) |