| ETS | educational testing service; electrical transcranial stimulation |
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| FES | family environment scale; fat embolism syndrome; flame emission spectroscopy; forced expiratory spir... |
| GEA | gastric electrical activity |
| HAM | hearing aid microphone; helical axis in motion; human albumin microsphere; human alveolar macrophage... |
| HPAA | hydroperoxyarachidonic acid; hydroxyphenylacetic acid; hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis |
| facial axis | A line drawn from the subnasal point to the midpoint of the sphenoethmoidal suture. Synonym: facial axis. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Y-axis | A cephalometric indicator of the vertical and horizontal coordinates of mandibular growth expressed in degrees of the inferior facial angle formed by the intersection of the sella-gnathion plane with the Frankfort horizontal plane. (05 Mar 2000) |
| left axis deviation | A mean electrical axis of the heart pointing to -30 |
| long axis | A line extending through the centre of an object lengthwise; in dentistry, the line extending inciso-(occluso-) cervically parallel to axial surfaces of a tooth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| long axis of body | long axis of body |
| long axis view | In echocardiography, a projection parallel to the interventricular septum of the heart; four-chamber view. (05 Mar 2000) |