| ASAIO | American Society for Artificial Internal Organs |
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| ASW | artificial sweetener |
| AV | Adriamycin and vincristine; air velocity; allergic vasculitis; anteroventral; anteversion; anticipat... |
| HFAK | hollow-fiber artificial kidney |
| IAH | idiopathic adrenal hyperplasia; implantable artificial heart |
| sea fir | <zoology> A sertularian hydroid, especially Sertularia abietina, which branches like a miniature fir tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| sea flewer | <zoology> A sea anemone, or any related anthozoan. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea foam | 1. Foam of sea water. 2. <chemical> Meerschaum. Synonym: sea froth. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea fowl | <ornithology> Any bird which habitually frequents the sea, as an auk, gannet, gull, tern, or petrel; also, all such birds, collectively. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea fox | <zoology> The thrasher shark. See Thrasher. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea ginger | <zoology> A hydroid coral of the genus Millepora, especially M. Alcicornis, of the West Indies and Florida. So called because it stings the tongue like ginger. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea girdles | <botany> A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds. Synonym: sea wand, seaware, and tangle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea girkin | <zoology> Any small holothurian resembling in form a gherkin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea goose | <zoology> A phalarope. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea grape | 1. <botany> The gulf weed. See Gulf. A shrubby plant (Coccoloba uvifera) growing on the sandy shores of tropical America, somewhat resembling the grapevine. 2. <zoology> The clusters of gelatinous egg capsules of a squid (Loligo). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea grass | <botany> Eelgrass. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea gudgeon | <zoology> The European black goby (Gobius niger). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea gull | <zoology> Any gull living on the seacoast. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea gull murmur | A murmur imitating the cooing sound of a seagull nearly always due to aortic stenosis or mitral regurgitation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sea hare | <zoology> Any tectibranchiate mollusk of the genus Aplysia. See Aplysia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |