| abs | feb while fever is absent |
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| AHF | acute heart failure; American Health Foundation; American Hepatic Foundation; American Hospital Form... |
| APCF | acute pharyngoconjunctival fever |
| ARF | acute renal failure; acute respiratory failure; acute rheumatic fever; Addiction Research Foundation... |
| ASF | African swine fever; aniline-sulfur-formaldehyde [resin] |
| haemorrhagic infarct | An infarct red in colour from infiltration of blood from collateral vessels into the necrotic area. Synonym: haemorrhagic gangrene, red infarct. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| haemorrhagic iritis | Iritis with such severe hyperaemia that hyphema occurs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| haemorrhagic measles | <virology> Haemorrhagic measles is a severe type of measles where the little bumps are darkly coloured because blood has escaped into the skin. (09 Oct 1997) |
| haemorrhagic metalloproteinase | <enzyme> Extracted from vipera berus berus venom; hydrolyzes casein, fibrinogen and splits the insulin b chain at positions ala(14)-leu(15), tyr(16)-leu(17), his(10)-leu(11); digests alpha chain of fibrinogen Registry number: EC 3.4.24.- (26 Jun 1999) |
| haemorrhagic nephritis | Acute glomerulonephritis accompanied by haematuria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| haemorrhagic pachymeningitis | Subdural haemorrhage associated with pachymeningitis. See: subdural haemorrhage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| haemorrhagic pericarditis | Pericarditis with bloodstained effusion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| haemorrhagic pian | A late, eruptive stage of bartonellosis; characterised by soft conical or pedunculated vascular papules anywhere on the skin or mucous membranes from miliary size to several centimeters, resolving without scars after a few months. Synonym: haemorrhagic pian, Peruvian wart, verruca peruana, verruca peruviana. (05 Mar 2000) |
| haemorrhagic plague | The haemorrhagic form of bubonic plague. (05 Mar 2000) |
| haemorrhagic pleurisy | Pleurisy with an effusion of blood-stained serum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| haemorrhagic rickets | Bone changes seen in infantile scurvy, consisting of subperiosteal haemorrhage and deficient osteoid tissue formation; often used to indicate simultaneous occurrence of rickets and scurvy. Synonym: acute rickets. Hereditary hypophosphatemic rickets, with hypercalciuria, an inherited disorder in which there is a defect in renal tubular reabsorption. (05 Mar 2000) |
| haemorrhagic scurvy | Scurvy with extensive haemorrhages in gums, skin and other tissues, typical of severe stage of the disease. Infantile scurvy, osteopathia haemorrhagia infantum;a cachectic condition in infants, resulting from malnutrition and marked by pallor, fetid breath, coated tongue, diarrhoea, and subperiosteal haemorrhages; probably a combination of scurvy and rickets due to combined deficiency of vitamins C and D. Synonym: Barlow's disease, Cheadle's disease, osteopathia haemorrhagica infantum, scurvy rickets. Land scurvy, formerly, scurvy occurring in people who had not been to sea. (05 Mar 2000) |
| haemorrhagic septicaemia | <microbiology> Haemorrhagic septicaemia is an infectious disease of cattle and buffalo which is caused by the bacteria Pasteurella multocida. Symptoms include fever, appetite loss, and drooling. It appears as a result of stress from malnutrition, exhaustion, or lengthy transportation. (09 Oct 1997) |
| haemorrhagic shock | Hypovolaemic shock resulting from acute haemorrhage, characterised by hypotension, tachycardia, pale, cold, and clammy skin, and oliguria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| haemorrhagic smallpox | A severe and frequently fatal form of smallpox accompanied by extravasation of blood into the skin in the early stage, or into the pustules at a later stage, accompanied often by nosebleed and haemorrhage from other orifices of the body. Synonym: fulminating smallpox, variola haemorrhagica. (05 Mar 2000) |