| BC | Bachelor of Surgery [Lat. Baccal-aureus Chirurgiae]; back care; bactericidal concentration; basal ce... |
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| DRBC | denaturated red blood cell; dog red blood cell; donkey red blood cell |
| EC | effective concentration; ejection click; electrochemical; electron capture; embryonal carcinoma; eme... |
| FLC | family life cycle; fatty liver cell; fetal liver cell; Friend leukemia cell |
| GCT | general care and treatment; germ-cell tumor; giant cell thyroiditis; giant cell tumor |
| small vein | <anatomy, vein> A vein in which the three tunics are poorly defined and thin; longitudinal elastic networks occur and the smooth muscle of the media, which is circularly arranged, may be incomplete or in one or two layers. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| diffuse small bowel disease | <radiology> SWELL GAMES, S sprue, dilatation, dilution, moulage, reversal of jejunal and ileal patterns, W Whipple disease, coarse nodular and irregular mucosa, E oedema, L lymphangiectasis, nodular, thickened folds, L lymphoma, nodular, thickened folds, G giardiasis, oedema and spasm of proximal small bowel, A amyloid, symmetric fold thickening, M mastocytosis, look for sclerotic bones, E eosinophilic gastroenteritis, thickened, nodular folds and spasm, S stasis syndromes see: small bowel disease (12 Dec 1998) |
| immunoproliferative small intestinal disease | A spectrum of conditions ranging from a benign plasma cell hyperplasia to a highly malignant lymphoma of the small intestine. (12 Dec 1998) |
| infant, small for gestational age | An infant having a birth weight lower than expected for its gestational age. (12 Dec 1998) |
| thick small bowel folds | <radiology> Haemorrhage, oedema, ischemia, sprue, malabsorption, hypoproteinaemia, Whipple disease, amyloidosis, Henoch-Schonlein syndrome, abetalipoproteinaemia, Crohn disease (12 Dec 1998) |
| tubular small bowel | <radiology> (toothpaste small bowel) globally featureless small bowel: mucosal folds effaced, graft-vs.-host disease (GvH), Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) (in AIDS), ischemia, Crohn disease, radiation, Strongyloides, milk enteropathy, sprue, corrosive enteritis, lymphoma, amyloidosis, mastocytosis, FUDR toxicity (12 Dec 1998) |
| U1 small nuclear RNA-(guanosine-N2)-methyltransferase | <enzyme> A trans-active non-small nuclear ribonucleoprotein; facilitates the formation of the m3g cap Registry number: EC 2.1.1.- Synonym: u1 snrna(g-n2)mtase (26 Jun 1999) |
| U6 small nuclear RNA methyltransferase | <enzyme> Methylates gamma-phosphate residues in rnas; distinct from u6 snrna n6-adenosine methyltranferase; mw 130 kD; from hela cells Registry number: EC 2.1.1.- Synonym: u6 snrna capping enzyme (26 Jun 1999) |
| unilateral small kidney | <radiology> Scarred: reflux nephropathy, lobar infarction Cf: other urographic patterns smooth kidney: ischemia due to focal arterial disease, chronic infarction, radiation nephritis, congenital hypoplasia, post-obstructive atrophy, post-inflammatory atrophy, reflux atrophy Cf: other urographic patterns (12 Dec 1998) |
| localised small bowel disease | <radiology> Crohn's, tumour (including lymphoma), bleed/oedema (12 Dec 1998) |
| lymphoma, small lymphocytic | A low-grade malignant lymphoma that may, in some cases, be considered histologically identical to chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (cll; leukaemia, lymphocytic, chronic). It is diffuse in pattern, representing the neoplastic proliferation of well-differentiated B-lymphocytes. In patients with immunoglobulin gammopathies, the lymphocytes may exhibit plasmacytoid characteristics. (12 Dec 1998) |
| T-cell-rich, B-cell lymphoma | <tumour> A B-cell lymphoma in which more than 90% of the cells are of T-cell origin, masking the large cells that form the neoplastic B-cell component. See: adult T-cell lymphoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| abdominal part of aorta | <anatomy> The largest arterial conduit below the diaphragm. This term refers to the portion of the aorta below the diaphragm to the bifurcation into the right and left common iliac arteries. It supplies blood to the abdominal viscera, pelvic organs and lower extremities. (20 Jun 2000) |
| abdominal part of oesophagus | The part of the oesophagus inferior to the diaphragm. See: oesophagus. Synonym: pars abdominalis oesophagi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| abdominal part of thoracic duct | The part of the thoracic duct between the cisterna chyli and the aortic hiatus of the diaphragm. Synonym: pars abdominalis ductus thoracici. (05 Mar 2000) |