| SDE | specific dynamic effect; subdural empyema |
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| SE | saline enema; sanitary engineering; side effect; smoke exposure; solid extract; sphenoethmoidal; spi... |
| TEE | thermic effect of exercise; total energy expenditure; transesophageal echocardiography; tyrosine eth... |
| TEF | thermic effect of food; thyrotroph embryonic factor; tracheoesophageal fistula; transcriptional enha... |
| TOE | tender on examination; tracheoesophageal; transesophageal echography; transferred nuclear Overhauser... |
| late effect | Side effects of chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy which only become apparent with long-term monitoring of the patient over a period of years. These are of particular concern in patients below the age of puberty. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| founder effect | The establishment of a new population by a few original founders (in an extreme case, by a single fertilized female) which carry only a small fraction of the total genetic variation of the parental population [Ernst Mayr, 1963]. The result is that a given allele, gene, chromosome, or part of a chromosome found in members of the population can be traced back to one ancestral individual. (09 Oct 1997) |