| RBS | random blood sugar; Roberts syndrome; Rutherford backscattering |
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| S&A | sickness and accident [insurance]; sugar and acetone |
| SAD | Scale of Anxiety and Depression; seasonal affective disorder; Self-Assessment Depression [scale]; se... |
| SC | conditioned stimulus; sacrococcygeal; Sanitary Corps; scalenus [muscle]; scapula; Schwann cell; scia... |
| S/C | subcutaneous, sugar-coated [pill] |
| senile cataract | A cataract occurring spontaneously in the elderly; mainly a cuneiform cataract, nuclear cataract, or posterior subcapsular cataract, alone or in combination. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| pyramidal cataract | A cone-shaped, anterior polar cataract. (05 Mar 2000) |
| siderotic cataract | A cataract resulting from deposition of iron from an iron-containing intraocular foreign body. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hypermature cataract | A cataract in which the lens cortex becomes liquid, with the nucleus gravitating within the capsule (Morgagni's cataract). Synonym: overripe cataract. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hypocalcaemic cataract | <ophthalmology> A cataract occurring with low serum calcium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| soft cataract | <ophthalmology> An advanced or mature cataract in which the nucleus is not well developed. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spindle cataract | A cataract in which the opacity is fusiform, extending from one pole to the other. Synonym: fusiform cataract. (05 Mar 2000) |
| stationary cataract | A cataract that does not progress. (05 Mar 2000) |
| stellate cataract | Congenital cataract with lens opacities radiating toward the periphery, with subcapsular and cortical changes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| subcapsular cataract | A cataract in which the opacities are concentrated beneath the capsule. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nuclear cataract | A cataract involving the nucleus. Synonym: hard cataract. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sunflower cataract | chalcosis lentis |
| sutural cataract | A congenital type of cataract with opacities along the Y sutures of the foetal lens nucleus; usually does not affect vision. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dendritic cataract | A congenital sutural cataract with complicated branching. (05 Mar 2000) |
| diabetic cataract | A cataract occurring in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. (27 Sep 1997) |