| TPM | temporary pacemaker; thrombophlebitis migrans; total particulate matter; total passive motion; triph... |
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| MDS | Master of Dental Surgery; maternal deprivation syndrome; medical data screening; medical data system... |
| MPS | meconium plug syndrome; medial premotor system; Member of the Pharmaceutical Society; microbial prof... |
| NTV | Nervous Tissue Vaccine; 신경 조직 백신 |
| ARNMD | Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases |
| white corpuscle | Any type of leukocyte. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| white diarrhoea | An infectious disease of chicks and other young birds caused by the bacterium Salmonella pullorum, which is carried in the ovaries of adult hens and appears in the eggs; in incubator-hatched birds, the disease usually involves the lungs and air sacs, but often spreads in flocks of young birds as an alimentary tract infection manifested by severe diarrhoea followed by septicaemia and death. Synonym: diarrhoea alba, white diarrhoea. (05 Mar 2000) |
| white-ear | <zoology> The wheatear. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| white-eye | <zoology> Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z. Coerulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Synonym: bush creeper, and white-eyed tit. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| white fat | <anatomy> Connective tissue that has been specialised to store fat. See: adipocyte. (25 Jun 1999) |
| white fibre | White mammalian muscle fibres; larger in diameter than red fibres they have less myoglobin, sarcoplasm, and mitochondria, and contract more quickly. Synonym: collagen fibre. (05 Mar 2000) |
| white fingers | An occupational disease occurring in operators of pneumatic hammers who are exposed to cold. (05 Mar 2000) |
| white-foot | <veterinary> A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| white forelock | A triangular or diamond-shaped depigmented macule with white hairs, usually located in the anterior midline of the scalp, seen in piebaldism. (05 Mar 2000) |
| white friar | A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| white-fronted | Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. <zoology> White-fronted goose, the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| white gangrene | Death of a part accompanied by the formation of grayish white sloughs. Synonym: leukonecrosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| white graft | Rejection of a skin allograft so acute that vascularization never occurs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| white-heart | <botany> A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| white infarct | An infarct in which little or no bleeding into tissue spaces occurs when the blood supply is obstructed. Synonym: pale infarct, white infarct. (05 Mar 2000) |