| misc | miscarriage; miscellaneous |
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| ADS | acute death syndrome; acute diarrheal syndrome; Alcohol Dependence Scale; alternative delivery syste... |
| diag | diagonal; diagnosis; diagram |
| NK | Commission on [Anatomical] Nomenclature [Ger. Nomenklatur Kommission]; natural killer [cell]; neurok... |
| OCD | obsessive compulsive disorder; Office of Child Development; Office of Civil Defense; osteochondritis... |
| ATC | Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical |
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| postage stamp grafts | Small pieces cut from a sheet of split-thickness graft. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| stamp | 1. To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward. "He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground." (Dryden) 2. To bring down (the foot) forcibly on the ground or floor; as, he stamped his foot with rage. 3. <chemistry> To crush; to pulverize; specifically, to crush by the blow of a heavy stamp, as ore in a mill. "I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small." (Deut. Ix. 21) 4. To impress with some mark or figure; as, to stamp a plate with arms or initials. 5. To impress; to imprint; to fix deeply; as, to stamp virtuous principles on the heart. "God . . . Has stamped no original characters on our minds wherein we may read his being." (Locke) 6. To cut out, bend, or indent, as paper, sheet metal, etc, into various forms, by a blow or suddenly applied pressure with a stamp or die, etc.; to mint; to coin. 7. To put a stamp on, as for postage; as, to stamp a letter; to stamp a legal document. To stamp out, to put an end to by sudden and energetic action; to extinguish; as, to stamp out a rebellion. Origin: OE. Stampen; akin to LG. & D. Stampen, G. Stampfen, OHG. Stanpfn, Dan. Stampe, Sw. Stampa, Icel. Stappa, G. Stampf a pestle and E. Step. See Step, and cf. Stampede. 1. The act of stamping, as with the foot. 2. The which stamps; any instrument for making impressions on other bodies, as a die. "'T is gold so pure It can not bear the stamp without alloy." (Dryden) 3. The mark made by stamping; a mark imprinted; an impression. "That sacred name gives ornament and grace, And, like his stamp, makes basest metals pass." (Dryden) 4. That which is marked; a thing stamped. "hanging a golden stamp about their necks." (Shak) 5. [F. Estampe, of german origin. See Stamp] A picture cut in wood or metal, or made by impression; a cut; a plate. "At Venice they put out very curious stamps of the several edifices which are most famous for their beauty and magnificence." (Addison) 6. An offical mark set upon things chargeable with a duty or tax to government, as evidence that the duty or tax is paid; as, the stamp on a bill of exchange. 7. Hence, a stamped or printed device, issued by the government at a fixed price, and required by law to be affixed to, or stamped on, certain papers, as evidence that the government dues are paid; as, a postage stamp; a receipt stamp, etc. 8. An instrument for cutting out, or shaping, materials, as paper, leather, etc, by a downward pressure. 9. A character or reputation, good or bad, fixed on anything as if by an imprinted mark; current value; authority; as, these persons have the stamp of dishonesty; the Scriptures bear the stamp of a divine origin. "Of the same stamp is that which is obtruded on us, that an adamant suspends the attraction of the loadstone." (Sir T. Browne) 10. Make; cast; form; character; as, a man of the same stamp, or of a different stamp. "A soldier of this season's stamp." (Shak) 11. A kind of heavy hammer, or pestle, raised by water or steam power, for beating ores to powder; anything like a pestle, used for pounding or bathing. 12. A half-penny. 13. Money, especially. Paper money. Stamp act, an act of the British Parliament [1765] imposing a duty on all paper, vellum, and parchment used in the American colonies, and declaring all writings on unstamped materials to be null an void. Stamp collector, an officer who receives or collects stamp duties; one who collects postage or other stamps. Stamp duty, a duty, or tax, imposed on paper and parchment used for certain writings, as deeds, conveyances, etc, the evidence of the payment of the duty or tax being a stamp. Stamp hammer, a hammer, worked by power, which rises and falls vertically, like a stamp in a stamp mill. Stamp head, a heavy mass of metal, forming the head or lower end of a bar, which is lifted and let fall, in a stamp mill. <chemical> Stamp mill, a mill in which ore is crushed with stamps; also, a machine for stamping ore. Stamp note, a stamped certificate from a customhouse officer, which allows goods to be received by the captain of a ship as freight. Stamp office, an office for the issue of stamps and the reception of stamp duties. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Venn diagram | Pictorial representation of the extent to which two or more quantities or concepts are mutually inclusive and exclusive. (05 Mar 2000) |
| diagram | 1. <geometry> A figure or drawing made to illustrate a statement, or facilitate a demonstration; a plan. 2. Any simple drawing made for mathematical or scientific purposes, or to assist a verbal explanation which refers to it; a mechanical drawing, as distinguished from an artistical one. Indicator diagram. <engineering> See Indicator card, under indicator Origin: Gr, fr. To mark out by lines; through + to draw, write: cf. F. Diagramme. See Graphic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Dieuaide diagram | The figure resulting from rearranging the lines of derivation of the three standard limb leads of the electrocardiogram (as represented in Einthoven's triangle) so that, instead of forming the sides of an equilateral triangle, they bisect one another. Synonym: Dieuaide diagram. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anatomical | <anatomy> Pertaining to anatomy or to the structure of the organism. (18 Nov 1997) |
| anatomical age | The age in terms of structure rather than of function or of passage of time. Synonym: physical age. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anatomical airway | The volume of the conducting airways from the external environment (at the nose and mouth) down to the level at which inspired gas exchanges oxygen and carbon dioxide with pulmonary capillary blood; formerly presumed to extend down to the beginning of alveolar epithelium in the respiratory bronchioles, but more recent evidence indicates that effective gas exchange extends some distance up the thicker-walled conducting airways because of rapid longitudinal mixing. Compare: alveolar dead space, physiologic dead space. Synonym: anatomical airway. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anatomical crown | The portion of a tooth covered with enamel. Synonym: corona dentis, anatomical crown. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anatomical dead space | The volume of the conducting airways from the external environment (at the nose and mouth) down to the level at which inspired gas exchanges oxygen and carbon dioxide with pulmonary capillary blood; formerly presumed to extend down to the beginning of alveolar epithelium in the respiratory bronchioles, but more recent evidence indicates that effective gas exchange extends some distance up the thicker-walled conducting airways because of rapid longitudinal mixing. Compare: alveolar dead space, physiologic dead space. Synonym: anatomical airway. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anatomical element | Any anatomical unit, such as a cell. Synonym: morphologic element. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anatomical neck of humerus | A groove separating the head of the humerus from the tuberosities, giving attachment to the articular capsule. Synonym: collum anatomicum humeri. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anatomical pathology | The subspecialty of pathology that pertains to the gross and microscopic study of organs and tissues removed for biopsy or during postmortem examination, and also the interpretation of the results of such study. Synonym: pathological anatomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anatomical position | The erect position of the body with the face directed forward (skull aligned in orbitomeatal or Frankfort plane); the arms at the side and the palms of the hands directed forward; the terms posterior, anterior, lateral, medial, etc., are applied to the parts as they stand related to each other and to the axis of the body when in this position. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anatomical root | That portion of a tooth extending from the cervical line to its apical extremity. (05 Mar 2000) |
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