| MAS | magic angle spinning; Manifest Anxiety Scale; maximum average score; McCune-Albright syndrome; mecon... |
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| MDS | Master of Dental Surgery; maternal deprivation syndrome; medical data screening; medical data system... |
| OHS | obesity hypoventilation syndrome; occipital Horn syndrome; occupational health service; ocular histo... |
| PLS | Papillon-Lefevre syndrome; polydactyly-luxation syndrome; preleukemic syndrome; primary lateral scle... |
| PMS | patient management system; perimenstrual syndrome; periodic movements during sleep; phenazine methos... |
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| Ascher's syndrome | <syndrome> A condition in which a congenital double lip is associated with blepharochalasis and nontoxic thyroid gland enlargement. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Asherman's syndrome | <syndrome> Synechiae within the endometrial cavity, often causing amenorrhoea and infertility. (05 Mar 2000) |
| asplenia syndrome | <syndrome> Syndrome seen in patients who had no functional spleen, either due to surgical removal of disease (e.g., sickle cell anaemia); includes increased susceptibility to bacterial infection, especially pneumococcal infection. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ataxia telangiectasia syndrome | ataxia telangiectasia |
| auriculotemporal nerve syndrome | <syndrome> Localised flushing and sweating of the ear and cheek in response to eating. Synonym: Frey's syndrome, gustatory sweating syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| autoerythrocyte sensitization syndrome | <syndrome> A condition, usually occurring in women, in which the individual bruises easily (purpura simplex) and the ecchymoses tend to enlarge and involve adjacent tissues, resulting in pain in the affected parts; so-called because similar lesions are produced by inoculation of the individual's blood or various components of red blood cells and it is thought to be a form of localised autosensitization, although no specific antibodies have been demonstrable; in some individuals, there seems to be a psychogenic mechanism. Synonym: Gardner-Diamond syndrome, psychogenic purpura. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Avellis' syndrome | <syndrome> Unilateral paralysis of the larynx and velum palati, with contralateral loss of pain and temperature sensibility in the parts below. Synonym: jugular foramen syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| A-V strabismus syndrome | <syndrome> Strabismus in which the angle of deviation is more marked on looking upward or downward. See: A-esotropia, V-esotropia, A-exotropia, V-exotropia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ayerza's syndrome | <syndrome> Sclerosis of the pulmonary arteries in chronic cor pulmonale; associated with severe cyanosis, it is a condition resembling polycythemia vera but resulting from primary pulmonary arteriosclerosis or primary pulmonary hypertension and characterised by plexiform lesions of arterioles. Synonym: Ayerza's disease, cardiopathia nigra, plexogenic pulmonary arteriopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Babinski's syndrome | <syndrome> The combination of cardiac, arterial, and central nervous system manifestations of late syphilis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| baby bottle syndrome | Rampant caries of the primary dentition associated with the habitual use, after age 1, of a baby bottle as an aid for sleeping. Synonym: baby bottle syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| baby, foetal alcohol syndrome | <syndrome> Alcohol is capable of causing birth defects. FAS (foetal alcohol syndrome) always involves brain damage. And impaired growth. FAS also always involves head and face abnormalities. No amount of alcohol has been proven safe during pregnancy. Women who are or may become pregnant are advised to avoid alcohol. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Balint's syndrome | <syndrome> An entity characterised by optic ataxia and simultanagnosia. This difficulty in applying the visual system to a visual task is usually due to damage to the superior temporal-occipital areas in both hemispheres. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bamberger-Marie syndrome | hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy |
| Bannwarth's syndrome | <syndrome> Neurologic manifestations of Lyme disease, also called chronic lymphocytic meningitis and tick-borne meningopolyneuritis. (05 Mar 2000) |