| AMA | against medical advice; alkaline membrane assay; American Management Association; American Medical A... |
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| ANA | acetylneuraminic acid; American Narcolepsy Association; American Neurological Association; American ... |
| ASHA | American School Health Association; American Social Health Association; American Speech and Hearing ... |
| NHA | National Health Association; National Hearing Association; National Hemophilia Association; nonspeci... |
| AAAS | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| disease models, animal | Animal disease whose pathologic mechanisms are sufficiently similar to those of a different human disease for the animal disease to serve as a model. The animal disease may be either induced or naturally occurring so long as it is not the same clinical entity as the disease for which it serves as a model. E.g., scrapie is an animal model for multiple sclerosis, which has never been found or induced in an animal. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| eliminative behaviour, animal | Behaviour associated with the elimination of feces and urine from the body. (12 Dec 1998) |
| toxoplasmosis, animal | Acquired infection of non-human animals by organisms of the genus toxoplasma. (12 Dec 1998) |
| transgenic animal | Genetically engineered animalor offspring of genetically engineeredanimals. The transgenic animal usually contains material from at leaseone unrelated organism, such as from a virus, plant, or other animal. (09 Oct 1997) |
| lameness, animal | A departure from the normal gait in animals. It is also called claudication. (12 Dec 1998) |