| ABPM&R | American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation |
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| APD | action potential duration; acute polycystic disease; advanced physical diagnosis; anteroposterior di... |
| APE | acetone powder extract; acute polioencephalitis; acute psychotic episode; airway pressure excursion;... |
| APM | Academy of Parapsychology and Medicine; Academy of Physical Medicine; Academy of Psychosomatic Medic... |
| APMR | Association for Physical and Mental Retardation |
| SPA | Spontaneous physical activity |
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| MVPA | moderate to vigorous physical activity |
| blueberry muffin sign | <radiology> Raised, purple skin lesions, dermal metastases of neuroblastoma (stage IV-S) (12 Dec 1998) |
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| blue dot sign | <clinical sign> A blue or black spot visible beneath the skin on the cranial aspect of testis or epididymis. This is a torsed testicular appendage and is usually quite tender. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Blumberg's sign | <clinical sign> Pain felt upon sudden release of steadily applied pressure on a suspected area of the abdomen, indicative of peritonitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bonhoeffer's sign | <clinical sign> Loss of normal muscle tone in chorea. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bozzolo's sign | <clinical sign> Pulsating vessels in the nasal mucous membrane, noted occasionally in thoracic aneurysm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Branham's sign | <clinical sign> Bradycardia following compression or excision of an arteriovenous fistula. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Braxton Hicks sign | <clinical sign> Irregular uterine contractions occurring after the third month of pregnancy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Broadbent's sign | <clinical sign> A retraction of the thoracic wall, synchronous with cardiac systole, visible anywhere, but particularly in the left posterior axillary line; a sign of adherent pericardium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Brockenbrough sign | <clinical sign> Absolute decrease in pulse pressure of the beat immediately following a premature beat; a sign of idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Brudzinski's sign | <clinical sign> A physical examination finding that can indicate inflammation of the meninges (meningitis), performed in two forms: passive flexion of one leg results in a similar movement on the opposite side or if the neck is passively flexed, flexion occurs in the legs. (27 Sep 1997) |
| Bryant's sign | <clinical sign> In dislocation of the shoulder, an abnormal position of axillary folds occurs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| burning drops sign | <clinical sign> In certain cases of perforated gastric ulcer, a sensation as of drops of hot liquid falling into the abdominal cavity or as of a stream of intensely hot liquid being poured into the cavity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| calcium sign | In chest radiography, displacement of the line of the calcified intima of the aorta away from its outer wall, a finding in a small percentage of cases of dissection of blood in the aortic media; the expression "displaced intimal calcification" is preferred to the listed term. See: aortic dissection. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Calkins' sign | <clinical sign> The change of shape of the uterus from discoid to ovoid, indicating placental separation from the uterine wall. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Cantelli's sign | <clinical sign> Reflex movement of the eyes in the opposite direction to that which the head is moved, e.g., the eyes being lowered as the head is raised, and the reverse (Cantelli's sign); an indication of functional integrity of the brainstem tegmental pathways and cranial nerves involved in eye movement. Synonym: vestibular ocular reflex. (05 Mar 2000) |