| APHA | American Protestant Hospital Association; American Public Health Association |
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| BPH | Bachelor of Public Health; benign prostatic hypertrophy |
| BPHEng | Bachelor of Public Health Engineering |
| BPHN | Bachelor of Public Health Nursing |
| CEPH | cephalic; cephalosporin; Council on Education for Public Health |
| mental scotoma | Absence of insight into, or inability to comprehend, items relative to a subject whose content is highly emotional to the individual. Synonym: blind spot. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| mental spine | A slight projection, sometimes two, in the middle line of the posterior surface of the body of the mandible, giving attachment to the geniohyoid muscle (below) and the genioglossus (above). Synonym: spina mentalis, genial tubercle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mental state | <clinical sign, psychiatry> A finding on physical examination that may refer to any number of abnormal changes in baseline mental functioning. Milder examples include mood changes, irritability, personality changes, depression or blunted affect. Advanced changes include confusion, lethargy, sleepiness, hallucinations, unresponsiveness and coma. (27 Sep 1997) |
| mental status schedule | Standardised clinical interview used to assess current psychopathology by scaling patient responses to the questions. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mental symphysis | The fibrocartilaginous union of the two halves of the mandible in the foetus; it becomes an osseous union during the first year. Synonym: symphysis mandibulae, symphysis mentalis, symphysis menti. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mental tubercle | A paired eminence on the mental protuberance of the mandible. Synonym: tuberculum mentale, eminentia symphysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| clasped thumbs and mental retardation | A syndrome with the following characteristic features: (1) neurologically:mental retardation and aphasia (lack of speech); (2) limbs: adducted (clasped) thumbs, absent extensor pollicis longus and/or brevis muscles to the thumb, shuffling gait, and leg spasticity; (3) growth: small body size; (4) skeleton: lumbar lordosis (sway back). The syndrome is inherited as an X-linked trait and so affects mainly boys. Alternative names include MASA syndrome (MASA stands for mental retardation, aphasia, shuffling gait, and adducted thumbs), adducted thumb with mental retardation, congenital clasped thumb with mental retardation, and the Gareis-Mason syndrome. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Columbia Mental Maturity Scale | An individually administered intelligence test that provides an estimate of the intellectual ability of children; provides mental ages ranging from 3 to 12 years, and requires no verbal response and minimal motor response. Origin: Columbia University, NY (05 Mar 2000) |
| congenital clasped thumb with mental retardation | See: Clasped thumbs and mental retardation. (12 Dec 1998) |
| substance-induced organic mental disorders | Mental disorders caused by use of drugs, e.g., cocaine. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inferior labial branches of mental nerve | <anatomy, nerve> Branches of mental nerve to lower lip. Synonym: rami labiales inferiores nervi mentalis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| organic mental disorder | A psychological, cognitive, or behavioural abnormality associated with transient or permanent dysfunction of the brain, usually characterised by the presence of an organic mental syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| organic mental syndrome | <syndrome> A constellation of behavioural or psychological signs and symptoms including problems with attention, concentration, memory, confusion, anxiety, and depression caused by transient or permanent dysfunction of the brain. Synonym: acute organic brain syndrome, OBS, organic mental syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| familial mental retardation 1 | See FMR1. (12 Dec 1998) |
| familial mental retardation protein | See FMRP. (12 Dec 1998) |