| OTPS | other than personal services |
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| qod | every other day [Lat. quaque altera die] |
| qoh | every other hour [Lat. quaque altera hora] |
| qon | every other night [Lat. quaque altera nocte] |
| TORCH | toxoplasmosis, other [congenital syphilis and viruses], rubella, cytomegalovirus, and herpes simplex... |
| tuberculosis, spinal | Osteitis or caries of the vertebrae, usually occurring as a complication of tuberculosis of the lungs. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| tuberculosis, splenic | Infection of the spleen with species of mycobacterium. (12 Dec 1998) |
| tuberculosis ulcerosa | Any tuberculous lesion in or about the mouth or anus. Synonym: tuberculosis ulcerosa. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tuberculosis, urogenital | A general term for tuberculosis of the urinary and/or genital systems or urinary organs other than the kidney, which is tuberculosis, renal. (12 Dec 1998) |
| tuberculosis vaccine | <drug> Live attenuated vaccine for tuberculosis. For groups and health care workers in high endemic areas. Not to be given to individuals with HIV infection. (15 Nov 1997) |
| exudative tuberculosis | A stage of infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis causing severe oedema and cellular inflammatory reaction without much necrosis or fibrosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| absolute system of units | A system based on absolute units accepted as being fundamental (length, mass, time) and from which other units (force, energy or work, power) are derived; such system's in common use are the foot-pound-second, centimeter-gram-second, and meter-kilogram-second system's. (05 Mar 2000) |
| absorbent system | <anatomy> The tissues and organs (including the bone marrow, spleen, thymus and lymph nodes) that produce and store cells that fight infection and the network of vessels that carry lymph. (12 May 1997) |
| alimentary system | The organs that are responsible for getting food into and out of the body and for making use of food to keep the body healthy. These include the mouth, oesophagus, stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, small intestine, colon, and rectum. (12 Dec 1998) |
| anterolateral system | A composite bundle of fibres, located in the ventrolateral part of the lateral funiculus, containing spinothalamic, spinohypothalamic, spinoreticular, and spinomesencephalic (spinotectal, spinal to periaqueductal grey, etc.) fibres; occupies the combined areas of the spinal white matter historically divided into anterior and lateral spinothalamic tracts; located in white matter ventral to the denticulate ligament, hence the anatomical basis for the anterolateral cordotomy; concerned with the transmission of nociceptive and thermal information and with crude (nondiscriminative) touch. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anti-allergic and respiratory system agents | A collective term for drugs used to treat allergic reactions as well as those drugs that produce an effect on the respiratory system. (12 Dec 1998) |
| arch-loop-whorl system | See: Galton's system of classification of fingerprints. (05 Mar 2000) |
| association system | Groups or tracts of nerve fibres interconnecting different regions of one and the same major subdivision of the central nervous system, such as the various areas of the cerebral cortex or the various segments of the spinal cord. (05 Mar 2000) |
| balanced lethal system | <genetics> A population with non-linked, recessive alleles of a gene, where an individual who has two copies of the recessive allele and is therefore homozygous is dead, while an individual who has only one copy of it, and one copy of a different allele (and is heterozygous) survives. (09 Oct 1997) |
| Bethesda system | Recent classification for categorizing cervical Papanicolaou smears. Origin: Bethesda, Maryland, site of NIH (05 Mar 2000) |