| MPA | mean pulmonary arterial [pressure]; medial preoptic area; Medical Procurement Agency; medroxyprogest... |
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| NSA | Neurological Society of America; normal serum albumin; no salt added; no significant abnormality; no... |
| PBA | polyclonal B-cell activity; pressure breathing assist; prolactin-binding assay; prune belly anomaly;... |
| SCA | self-care agency; severe congenital anomaly; sickle-cell anemia; single-camera autostereoscopic [ima... |
| SHORT, S-H-O-R-T | short stature, hyperextensibility of joints or hernia or both, ocular depression, Rieger anomaly, te... |
| red precipitate | mercuric oxide, red |
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| red pulp | Splenic pulp seen grossly as a reddish brown substance, due to its abundance of red blood cells, consisting of splenic sinuses and the tissue intervening between them (splenic cords). (05 Mar 2000) |
| red pulp cords | The tissue occurring between the venous sinuses in the spleen. Synonym: Billroth's cords, red pulp cords. (05 Mar 2000) |
| red reflex | A triangular area at the anterior inferior part of the tympanic membrane, running from the umbo to the periphery, where there is seen a bright reflection of light. Synonym: cone of light, light reflex, Politzer's luminous cone, red reflex, Wilde's triangle. Malacarne's pyramid, a lobule on the undersurface of the cerebellum, the posterior portion of the vermis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| red-riband | <zoology> The European red band fish, or fireflame. See Rend fish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| red-short | <chemistry> Hot-short; brittle when red-hot; said of certain kinds of iron. Red"-shortness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| red strawberry tongue | Clinical manifestation of Kawasaki's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| red sweat | Reddening of sweat, especially in the axilla, due to pigment produced by Streptomyces roseofulvis. See: chromidrosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| red-tailed | Having a red tail. <zoology> Red-tailed hawk, a large North American hawk (Buteo borealis). When adult its tail is chestnut red. Synonym: hen hawck, and red-tailed buzzard. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| red test | An obsolete test for renal function; after the patient has drunk a glass or two of water, 1 ml of a 0.6% solution of dye is injected hypodermically; the time between this injection and the appearance of a pink tinge in the urine as it falls into an alkaline solution is noted; the amount excreted in each of the next 2 hours is then estimated colourimetrically. Synonym: Geraghty's test, phthalein test, red test, Rowntree and Geraghty test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| red thrombus | A thrombus formed rapidly by the coagulation of stagnating blood, composed mainly of red blood cells rather than platelets. (05 Mar 2000) |
| red vision | An abnormality of vision in which all objects appear to be tinged with red. Synonym: red vision. Origin: erythro-+ G. Ops, eye (05 Mar 2000) |
| red wine | Claret, an alcoholic liquor made by fermenting grapes, the fruit of Vitis vinifera, with their skins (which imparts colour); has been used as a tonic. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vital red | Trisodium salt of a sulfonated diazo dye (a ditolyl group diazotised to sulfonated aminonaphthalene residues), used as a vital stain. Synonym: brilliant vital red. (05 Mar 2000) |
| medicinal scarlet red | O-Tolylazo-o-tolylazo-beta-naphthol. An azo dye; a dark, brownish red powder, soluble in oils, fats, and chloroform, but insoluble in water; used in medicine as a vulnerary, in histology to stain fat in tissue sections and basic proteins at high pH, and in immunoelectrophoresis. Synonym: Biebrich scarlet red, medicinal scarlet red, scharlach red, Sudan IV. (05 Mar 2000) |