| SAT | saliva alcohol test; satellite; serum antitrypsin; single-agent chemotherapy; slide agglutination te... |
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| SBE | breast self-examination; short below-elbow [cast]; shortness of breath on exertion; small bowel enem... |
| SCLE | subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus |
| SDC | serum digoxin concentration; Smith delay compensator; sodium deoxycholate; subacute combined degener... |
| SHN | spontaneous hemorrhagic necrosis; subacute hepatic necrosis |
| Powassan encephalitis | <neurology, paediatrics> An acute disease of children varying clinically from undifferentiated febrile illness to encephalitis. It is caused by the Powassan virus, a member of the Flaviviridae family, and transmitted by ixodid ticks; most frequently seen in Canada. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| herpes encephalitis | The most common acute encephalitis, caused by HSV-1; affects persons of any age; preferentially involves the inferomedial portions of the temporal lobe and the orbital portions of the frontal lobes; pathologically, severe haemorrhagic necrosis is present along with, in the acute stages, intranuclear eosinophilic inclusion bodies in the neurons and glial cells. Synonym: acute inclusion body encephalitis, herpes encephalitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| herpes simplex encephalitis | The most common acute encephalitis, caused by HSV-1; affects persons of any age; preferentially involves the inferomedial portions of the temporal lobe and the orbital portions of the frontal lobes; pathologically, severe haemorrhagic necrosis is present along with, in the acute stages, intranuclear eosinophilic inclusion bodies in the neurons and glial cells. Synonym: acute inclusion body encephalitis, herpes encephalitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| secondary encephalitis | Collective term for post-infectious, post-exanthem, and post-vaccinal encephalitides. (05 Mar 2000) |
| purulent encephalitis | Encephalitis of bacterial aetiology. Synonym: encephalitis pyogenica, purulent encephalitis, suppurative encephalitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hyperergic encephalitis | Encephalitis as a result of an immunologic allergic reaction of the nervous system to antigenic stimuli. (05 Mar 2000) |
| necrotizing encephalitis | Any encephalitis in which extensive brain necrosis occurs, e.g., acute necrotizing haemorrhagic encephalomyelitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| St. Louis encephalitis virus | A group B arbovirus, in the family Flaviviridae, occurring in the U.S., Trinidad, and Panama; normally present as inapparent infection in humans, but sometimes a cause of encephalitis; the virus has been isolated from birds in Panama and from several mosquito species, especially Psorophora. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Dawson's encephalitis | <neurology> Chronic progressive illness seen in children a few years after measles infection and involving demyelination of the cerebral cortex. Virus apparently persists in brain cells: usually considered a slow virus disease. (18 Nov 1997) |
| suppurative encephalitis | Encephalitis of bacterial aetiology. Synonym: encephalitis pyogenica, purulent encephalitis, suppurative encephalitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| swine encephalitis virus | A coronavirus, in the family Coronaviridae, that causes swine encephalitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ilheus encephalitis | An encephalitis caused by the Ilheus virus (genus Flavivirus) and endemic to eastern Brazil and other parts of South and Central America; transmitted by mosquitoes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inclusion body encephalitis | <neurology> Chronic progressive illness seen in children a few years after measles infection and involving demyelination of the cerebral cortex. Virus apparently persists in brain cells: usually considered a slow virus disease. (18 Nov 1997) |
| opossum encephalitis | Encephalitis of opossum caused by Chlamydia psittaci. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tick-borne encephalitis | 1. (Central European subtype) tick-borne meningoencephalitis caused by a flavivirus closely related to the virus causing the Far Eastern type; it is transmitted by Ixodes ricinus, also by infected raw milk, especially that of goats. Synonym: biundulant meningoencephalitis, Central European tick-borne fever, diphasic milk fever, Russian spring-summer encephalitis (Western subtype). 2. (Eastern subtype) tick-borne encephalitis, a severe form of encephalitis caused by a flavivirus, a virus belonging to the Flaviviridae family, and transmitted by ticks (Ixodes pertulcatus and I. Ricinus). Synonym: Russian tick-borne encephalitis. (05 Mar 2000) |