| HPVD | hypertensive pulmonary vascular disease |
|---|---|
| HTVD | hypertensive vascular disease |
| HVD | hypertensive vascular disease |
| IVA | intraoperative vascular angiography; isovaleric acid |
| MVC | maximum voluntary contraction; motor vehicle crash; mucin; multivane collimator; myocardial vascular... |
| penile neoplasms | Cancers or tumours of the penis or of its component tissues. (12 Dec 1998) |
|---|---|
| cerebral ventricle neoplasms | Neoplasms located in the brain ventricles including the two lateral, third, and fourth ventricles. (12 Dec 1998) |
| meningeal neoplasms | Neoplasms located in any of the meninges, the dura mater, pia mater, or arachnoid. (12 Dec 1998) |
| choroid neoplasms | Tumours of the choroid; most common intraocular tumours are malignant melanomas of the choroid. These usually occur after puberty and increase in incidence with advancing age. Most malignant melanomas of the uveal tract develop from benign melanomas (nevi). (12 Dec 1998) |
| choroid plexus neoplasms | Neoplasms of the choroid plexus, blood vessels of the pia mater that project into the brain ventricles. (12 Dec 1998) |
| colourectal neoplasms | Cancer of the colon and rectum. The most frequent malignant tumour in the united states. Aetiological factors which increase the risk of colourectal cancer include chronic ulcerative colitis, familial polyposis of the colon, exposure to asbestos, irradiation of the cervix. (12 Dec 1998) |
| colourectal neoplasms, hereditary nonpolyposis | A syndrome characterised by autosomal dominant inheritance, a low mean age (41 years) for occurrence of colon cancer, and a marked increase in the proportion of tumours in the proximal colon. (12 Dec 1998) |
| common bile duct neoplasms | Neoplasms of the common bile duct including vater's ampulla and oddi's sphincter. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pleural neoplasms | Neoplasms of the thin serous membrane that envelopes the lungs and lines the thoracic cavity. Pleural neoplasms are exceedingly rare and are usually not diagnosed until they are advanced because in the early stages they produce no symptoms. (12 Dec 1998) |
| muscle neoplasms | Neoplasms located in muscle tissue or specific muscles. They are differentiated from neoplasms, muscle tissue which are neoplasms composed of skeletal, cardiac, or smooth muscle tissue, such as myosarcoma or leiomyoma. (12 Dec 1998) |
| cranial nerve neoplasms | Neoplasms of any of the cranial nerves. (12 Dec 1998) |
| haematologic neoplasms | Neoplasms located in the blood and blood-forming tissue (the bone marrow and lymphatic tissue). The commonest forms are the various types of leukaemia, of lymphoma, and of the progressive, life-threatening forms of the myelodysplastic syndromes. (12 Dec 1998) |
| head and neck neoplasms | Neoplasms of the head and neck. (12 Dec 1998) |
| skull base neoplasms | Neoplasms of the base of the skull specifically, differentiated from neoplasms of unspecified sites or bones of the skull (skull neoplasms). (12 Dec 1998) |
| skull neoplasms | Neoplasms of the bony part of the skull. (12 Dec 1998) |