| HM | hand movements; health maintenance; heart murmur; hemifacial microsomia; Holter monitoring; home man... |
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| HO | hand orthosis; heterotopic ossification; high oxygen; hip orthosis; history of; Holt-Oram [syndrome]... |
| HS | Haber syndrome; half strength; hamstring; hand surgery; Hartmann solution; head sling; healthy subje... |
| HSCD | Hand-Schuller-Christian disease |
| IFSSH | International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand |
| APACHE | ACUTE PHYSIOLOGY AND CHRONIC HEALTH EVALUATION |
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| ADME | Absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion |
| APD(90) | Action potential duration at 50% and 90 |
| APACHE II | Acute Physiology And Chronic Health Evaluation |
| APACHE II | Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II |
| ringworm of foot | Tinea involving the feet, particularly the interdigital spaces and soles, most often caused by Trichophyton rubrum, T. Mentagrophytes or Epidermophyton floccosum and characterised by intensely pruritic lesions varying from mild, chronic and scaling to acute exfoliative, pustular and bullous. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| root of foot | Origin: NL, fr. Gr. The flat of the foot, the edge of the eyelid. Cf. 2d Tarse. 1. <anatomy> The ankle; the bones or cartilages of the part of the foot between the metatarsus and the leg, consisting in man of seven short bones. A plate of dense connective tissue or cartilage in the eyelid of man and many animals. Synonym: tarsal cartilage, and tarsal plate. 2. <zoology> The foot of an insect or a crustacean. It usually consists of form two to five joints. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Morand's foot | A foot having eight toes. (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) |
| mossy foot | A profuse velvety papillomatous growth that develops large warty projections; caused by chronic lymphedema and stasis with maceration and associated infection. Synonym: lymphedematous keratoderma, lymphostatic verrucosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wolf's-foot | <botany> Club moss. See Lycopodium. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| contracted foot | A condition of the horse in which a part of the foot, often a heel, is contracted and shrunken as a result of loss of moisture in the hoof. Synonym: contracted heel, talipes cavus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hare's-foot fern | <botany> A species of fern (Davallia Canariensis) with a soft, gray, hairy rootstock; whence the name. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sandal foot | A wide space between the first and second toes seen in Down's syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hen's-foot | <botany> An umbelliferous plant (Caucalis daucoides). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pronation of foot | Eversion and abduction of the foot, raising the lateral edge. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hong Kong foot | Tinea involving the feet, particularly the interdigital spaces and soles, most often caused by Trichophyton rubrum, T. Mentagrophytes or Epidermophyton floccosum and characterised by intensely pruritic lesions varying from mild, chronic and scaling to acute exfoliative, pustular and bullous. (18 Nov 1997) |
| pumiced foot | A condition of the horse's hoof, frequently associated with chronic laminitis, in which the sole is level with or extends beyond the bearing surface of the hoof wall, causing lameness, particularly when the animal moves on hard surfaces; the sole becomes thick and flaky. (05 Mar 2000) |
| single-foot | An irregular gait of a horse; called also single-footed pace. See Single, "Single-foot is an irregular pace, rather rare, distinguished by the posterior extremities moving in the order of a fast walk, and the anterior extremities in that of a slow trot." (Stillman (The Horse in Motion)) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sole of foot | The inferior aspect or bottom of the foot, much of which is in contact with the ground when standing; it is covered with hairless, usually nonpigmented skin that is especially thickened and provided with epidermal ridges over the weight-bearing areas. Synonym: planta pedis, regio plantaris. (05 Mar 2000) |