| PCM | patient care manager or management; patient classification system; primary cutaneous melanoma; proce... |
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| REM | rapid eye movement; recent-event memory; reticular erythematous mucinosis; return electrode monitor;... |
| RM | radical mastectomy; random migration; radon monitor; range of movement; red marrow; reference materi... |
| TCM | tissue culture medium; transcutaneous monitor |
| TOF | tetralogy of Fallot; time-of-flight; train of four [monitor]; tracheo[o]esophageal fistula |
| round heart | Abnormally smooth arcuate contours of the heart due either to disease of the ventricles or to a false cardiac appearance produced by excessive pericardial fluid. Synonym: globular heart. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| round heart disease | A spontaneous cardiomyopathy of unknown aetiology that affects young turkeys; characterised by sudden death due to cardiac arrest. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mitochondria, heart | The mitochondria of the myocardium. (12 Dec 1998) |
| white-heart | <botany> A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| compensatory hypertrophy of the heart | Thickening of the walls of the heart in response to vascular, valvular, other heart disease, or athletic conditioning. (05 Mar 2000) |
| movable heart | A heart that moves unduly on change of bodily position. Synonym: movable heart. (05 Mar 2000) |
| compliance of heart | The reciprocal of passive or diastolic stiffness of the ventricle of the heart, most commonly of the left ventricle; one may distinguish between compliance of the muscle and compliance of the supportive structures, although ordinarily both are considered together (chamber compliance); a hypertrophied or scarred heart will manifest a stiff wall, i.e., decreased compliance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| conducting system of heart | The system of atypical cardiac muscle fibres comprising the sinoatrial node, internodal tracts, atrioventricular node and bundle, the bundle branches, and their terminal ramifications into the Purkinje network; sometimes also called cardionector. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wooden-shoe heart | <radiology> The radiographic configuration of the heart in the tetralogy of Fallot; the elevated apex gives a silhouette like that of a wooden shoe Synonym: sabot heart, wooden-shoe heart. (05 Mar 2000) |
| congenital heart block | Atrioventricular block present in utero or at birth and usually of advanced or complete degree. (05 Mar 2000) |
| congenital heart disease | Heart disease that is present from birth. Examples include atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect, aortic stenosis and tetralogy of Fallot. (27 Sep 1997) |
| muscle of heart | muscle |
| muscular part of interventricular septum of heart | The thick muscular portion which comprises most of the interventricular septum of the heart. Synonym: pars muscularis septi interventricularis cordis, septum musculare ventriculorum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| myocytolysis of heart | Local loss of myocardial syncytium as a result of a metabolic imbalance, insufficient in intensity or duration (or both) to cause stromal injury or to elicit any reactive exudation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| myxoedema heart | The enlarged heart associated with untreated severe hypothyroidism, often accompanied by pericardial effusion; rare in modern medicine. (05 Mar 2000) |