| HSA | Hazardous Substances Act; Health Services Administration; health systems agency; hereditary siderobl... |
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| HSP | Health Systems Plan; heat shock protein; hemostatic screening profile; Henoch-Schonlein purpura; her... |
| LRSF | lactating rat serum factor; liver regenerating serum factor |
| NHS | Nance-Horan syndrome; National Health Service; National Hospice Study; normal horse serum; normal hu... |
| NRS | neurobehavioral rating scale; normal rabbit serum; normal reference serum; numerical rating scale |
| immune serum globulin | A sterile solution of globulin's that contains many antibodies normally present in adult human blood; a passive immunizing agent frequently used for prophylaxis against hepatitis A. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| immunization, serum hepatitis | See Immunization, hepatitis b. (12 Dec 1998) |
| inactivated serum | <immunology> Serum that has been heated 50캜 for 30 minutes to destroy the lytic activity of complement. (05 Mar 2000) |
| iodinated 125I serum albumin | A sterile, buffered, isotonic solution prepared to contain not less than 10 mg of radioiodinated normal human serum albumin per ml, and adjusted to provide not more than 1 mCi of radioactivity per ml; used as a diagnostic aid in determining blood volume and cardiac output. Synonym: radioiodinated serum albumin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| iodinated 131I human serum albumin | A sterile, buffered, isotonic solution prepared to contain not less than 10 mg of radioiodinated normal human serum albumin per ml, and adjusted to provide not more than 1 mCi of radioactivity per ml; used as a diagnostic aid in the measurement of blood volume and cardiac output. (05 Mar 2000) |
| thyrotoxic serum | An antiserum obtained by injecting into animals the nucleoproteins of the thyroid gland. (05 Mar 2000) |
| equine serum hepatitis | <veterinary> An acute hepatic disease of the horse, often associated with prior administration of biological products; neurologic signs and jaundice are usually prominent signs; aetiology is unknown. Synonym: Theiler's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| truth serum | Colloquialism for a drug, such as amobarbital sodium or thiopental sodium, intravenously injected for the purpose of eliciting information from the subject under its influence; a misnomer because the subject's revelations may or may not be factually true, and its legal status and use is questionable. (05 Mar 2000) |
| foetal calf serum | <cell culture> The serum originating from embryonic calves and an expensive component of standard culture media for many types of animal tissue cells. It is used as an important part of growth media for promoting the growth of tissue cultures. It provides a source of growth hormones and other growth factors. (11 Nov 1997) |
| foreign serum | A serum derived from an animal and injected into an animal of another species or into humans. (05 Mar 2000) |
| liquid human serum | The pool of fluids separated from blood withdrawn from human subjects and allowed to clot in the absence of any anticoagulant; not more than 10 separate donations are pooled; the contributions from donors of A, O, and either B or AB groups are represented in approximately the ratio 9:9:2. (05 Mar 2000) |