| AP | accessory pathway; accounts payable; acid phosphatase; acinar parenchyma; action potential; active p... |
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| A&P | anterior and posterior; assessment and plans; auscultation and percussion |
| APGAR | American Pediatric Gross Assessment Record |
| APIE | assessment, plan, implementation, and evaluation |
| BASA | Boston Assessment of Severe Aphasia |
| weldon's process | <chemistry> A process for the recovery or regeneration of manganese dioxide in the manufacture of chlorine, by means of milk of lime and the oxygen of the air; so called after the inventor. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| condylar process | The articular process of the ramus of the mandible; it includes the head of the mandible, the neck of the mandible and pterygoid fovea. Synonym: processus condylaris, condyloid process, mandibular condyle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| condyloid process | The articular process of the ramus of the mandible; it includes the head of the mandible, the neck of the mandible and pterygoid fovea. Synonym: processus condylaris, condyloid process, mandibular condyle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| conoid process | The prominence near the lateral end of the inferior surface of the clavicle that gives attachment to the conoid ligament. Synonym: tuberculum conoideum, conoid process. (05 Mar 2000) |
| muscular process of arytenoid cartilage | The blunt lateral projection of the arytenoid cartilage giving attachment to the lateral and posterior cricoarytenoid muscles of the larynx. Synonym: processus muscularis cartilaginis arytenoidei. (05 Mar 2000) |
| coracoid process | A long curved projection from the neck of the scapula overhanging the glenoid cavity; it gives attachment to the short head of the biceps, the coracobrachialis, and the pectoralis minor muscles, and the conoid and coracoacromial ligaments. Synonym: processus coracoideus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| coronoid process | A sharp triangular projection from a bone; coronoid process of the mandible, the triangular anterior process of the mandibular ramus, giving attachment to the temporal muscle; coronoid process of the ulna, a bracket-like projection from the anterior portion of the proximal extremity of the ulna; its anterior surface gives attachment to the brachialis, its proximal surface enters into the formation of the trochlear notch. Synonym: processus coronoideus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| costal pit of transverse process | A facet on the transverse process of a vertebra for articulation with the tubercle of a rib. Synonym: fovea costalis processus transversi, costal pit of transverse process. (05 Mar 2000) |
| costal process | An apophysis extending laterally from the transverse process of a lumbar vertebra; it is the homologue of the rib. Synonym: processus costalis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| posterior process of septal cartilage | The tapering extension of the septal cartilage that lies between the perpendicular plate of the ethmoid and the vomer. Synonym: processus posterior cartilaginis septi nasi, processus sphenoidalis cartilaginis septi nasi, sphenoid process of septal cartilage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| posterior process of talus | A projection of the talus bearing medial and lateral tubercles; it is posterior and inferior to the trochlea. Synonym: processus posterior tali, Stieda's process. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hamular process of lacrimal bone | The hooklike lower end of the lacrimal crest, curving between the frontal process and orbital surface of the maxilla to form the upper aperture of the bony portion of the nasolacrimal canal. Synonym: hamulus lacrimalis, hamular process of lacrimal bone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hamular process of sphenoid bone | The inferior, hook-shaped extremity of the medial plate of the pterygoid process. Synonym: hamulus pterygoideus, hamular process of sphenoid bone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| head process | The primordium for the notochord. See: notochordal process. (05 Mar 2000) |
| primary process | In psychoanalysis, the mental process directly related to the functions of the primitive life forces associated with the id and characteristic of unconscious mental activity; marked by unorganised, illogical thinking and by the tendency to seek immediate discharge and gratification of instinctual demands. Compare: secondary process. (05 Mar 2000) |