| RTD | renal tubular defect; routine test dilution |
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| RTN | renal tubular necrosis |
| TBM | total body mass; tracheobronchiomegaly; trophoblastic basement membrane; tuberculous meningitis; tub... |
| TF | free thyroxine; tactile fremitus; tail flick [reflex]; temperature factor; testicular feminization; ... |
| TFP | tubular fluid plasma |
| rheumatic heart disease | The most important manifestation of and sequel to rheumatic fever, i.e., any cardiac involvement in rheumatic fever. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| rheumatism of the heart | Rheumatic cardiac valvular disease, most often of the mitral and aortic valves. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chick heart fibroblast | <cell culture> The cells that emigrate from an explant of embryonic chick heart maintained in culture. Often used as archetypal normal cell. (05 Jan 1998) |
| right atrium of heart | Right atrium, the atrium of the right side of the heart which receives the blood from the venae cavae and coronary sinus. Synonym: atrium dextrum cordis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| right border of heart | The border between the sternocostal and diaphragmatic surfaces of the heart; it is fairly well defined in fixed hearts but is rounded and indefinite in the living heart. Synonym: margo dexter cordis, right margin of heart. (05 Mar 2000) |
| right heart | The right atrium and right ventricle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| right heart bypass | Introduction of a circuit shunting blood from the venae cavae around the right atrium and ventricle and directly into the pulmonary artery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| right margin of heart | The border between the sternocostal and diaphragmatic surfaces of the heart; it is fairly well defined in fixed hearts but is rounded and indefinite in the living heart. Synonym: margo dexter cordis, right margin of heart. (05 Mar 2000) |
| round heart | Abnormally smooth arcuate contours of the heart due either to disease of the ventricles or to a false cardiac appearance produced by excessive pericardial fluid. Synonym: globular heart. (05 Mar 2000) |
| round heart disease | A spontaneous cardiomyopathy of unknown aetiology that affects young turkeys; characterised by sudden death due to cardiac arrest. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mitochondria, heart | The mitochondria of the myocardium. (12 Dec 1998) |
| white-heart | <botany> A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| compensatory hypertrophy of the heart | Thickening of the walls of the heart in response to vascular, valvular, other heart disease, or athletic conditioning. (05 Mar 2000) |
| movable heart | A heart that moves unduly on change of bodily position. Synonym: movable heart. (05 Mar 2000) |
| compliance of heart | The reciprocal of passive or diastolic stiffness of the ventricle of the heart, most commonly of the left ventricle; one may distinguish between compliance of the muscle and compliance of the supportive structures, although ordinarily both are considered together (chamber compliance); a hypertrophied or scarred heart will manifest a stiff wall, i.e., decreased compliance. (05 Mar 2000) |