| AD | accident dispensary; acetate dialysis; active disease; acute dermatomyositis; addict, addiction; ade... |
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| BD | barbital-dependent; barbiturate dependence; base deficit; base of prism down; basophilic degeneratio... |
| BDE | bile duct examination |
| BDL | behaviors of daily living; below detectable limits; bile duct ligation |
| CBD | carotid body denervation; closed bladder drainage; common bile duct |
| left crus of diaphragm | The muscular origin of the diaphragm from the upper two or three lumbar vertebrae that ascends to the left of the aorta to reach the central tendon. Synonym: crus sinistrum diaphragmatis. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| left fibrous trigone | The part of the fibrous skeleton of the heart located in the interval between the left side of the left atrioventricular ring and the aortic ring. Synonym: trigonum fibrosum sinistrum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| left-footed | Denoting one who uses the left leg by preference. Synonym: left-footed. Origin: sinistro-+ L. Pes (ped-), foot (05 Mar 2000) |
| left gastric artery | <anatomy, artery> Origin, coeliac; distribution, cardia of stomach at lesser curvature, abdominal part of the oesophagus, and, frequently, a portion of the left lobe of the liver via an aberrant left hepatic branch; anastomoses, oesophageal, right gastric. Synonym: arteria gastrica sinistra, coronary artery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| left gastric lymph nodes | Nodes located along the left gastric artery and its branches; they are divided into paracardial, upper and lower groups. Synonym: nodi lymphatici gastrici sinistri, superior gastric lymph nodes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| left gastric vein | <anatomy, vein> Arises from a union of veins from both surfaces of the cardia of the stomach and an oesophageal tributary from the cardiac portion of the oesophagus; it runs in the lesser omentum and empties into the portal vein. See: oesophageal veins. Synonym: vena gastrica sinistra, coronary vein, vena coronaria ventriculi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| left gastroepiploic artery | <anatomy, artery> Origin, splenic; distribution, greater curvature of stomach and greater omentum; anastomoses, right gastroepiploic and short gastric arteries. Synonym: arteria gastro-omentalis sinistra, arteria gastroepiploica sinistra, left gastro-omental artery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| left gastroepiploic lymph nodes | Nodes located in the greater omentum along the left gastroepiploic artery that drain part of the greater curvature of the stomach and greater omentum. Synonym: nodi lymphatici gastro-omentales sinistri, left gastro-omental nodes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| left gastroepiploic vein | <anatomy, vein> The vein that accompanies the left gastroepiploic artery along the greater curvature of the stomach; it empties into the splenic vein. Synonym: vena gastro-omentalis sinistra, left gastroomental vein. (05 Mar 2000) |
| left gastro-omental artery | <anatomy, artery> Origin, splenic; distribution, greater curvature of stomach and greater omentum; anastomoses, right gastroepiploic and short gastric arteries. Synonym: arteria gastro-omentalis sinistra, arteria gastroepiploica sinistra, left gastro-omental artery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| left gastro-omental nodes | Nodes located in the greater omentum along the left gastroepiploic artery that drain part of the greater curvature of the stomach and greater omentum. Synonym: nodi lymphatici gastro-omentales sinistri, left gastro-omental nodes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| left gastroomental vein | <anatomy, vein> The vein that accompanies the left gastroepiploic artery along the greater curvature of the stomach; it empties into the splenic vein. Synonym: vena gastro-omentalis sinistra, left gastroomental vein. (05 Mar 2000) |
| left-handed | 1. Having the left hand or arm stronger and more dexterous than the right; using the left hand and arm with more dexterity than the right. 2. Clumsy; awkward; unlucky; insincere; sinister; malicious; as, a left-handed compliment. "The commendations of this people are not always left-handed and detractive." (Landor) 3. Having a direction contrary to that of the hands of a watch when seen in front; said of a twist, a rotary motion, etc, looked at from a given direction. Left-handed marriage, a morganatic marriage. See Morganatic. Left-handed screw, a screw constructed to advance away from the observer, when turned, as in a nut, with a left-handed rotation. An ordinary wood screw is right-handed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| left heart | The left atrium and left ventricle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| left heart bypass | Any procedure that shunts blood returning from the pulmonary circulation to the systemic circulation without passing through the left heart. This is utilised during some cardiac surgery and experimentally during severe left heart failure or cardiogenic shock. (05 Mar 2000) |