| CSS | Cancer Surveillance System; carotid sinus stimulation; carotid sinus syndrome; cavernous sinus syndr... |
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| SAS | sarcoma amplified sequence; self-rating anxiety scale; short arm splint; Sklar Aphasia Scale; sleep ... |
| SIS | semantic indexing system; serotinin irritation syndrome; simian sarcoma; simulator-induced syndrome;... |
| BIG 6 | analysis of 6 serum components |
| misc | miscarriage; miscellaneous |
| BIG-ET | BIG-endothelin |
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| Big ET-1 | Big endothelin-1 |
| GAM | Generalised Additive Models |
| TAB | Total androgen blockade |
| SAM | Sterile Alpha Motif |
| TAB vaccine | A suspension of killed typhoid and paratyphoid A and B bacilli. See: typhoid vaccine. Synonym: TAB vaccine. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| additive | 1. <chemistry> Characterised by addition. 2. A substance, as a flavouring agent, preservative or vitamin, added to another substance to improve its appearance, increase its nutritional value, etc. (18 Nov 1997) |
| additive effect | <biochemistry, chemistry> An additive effect is the overall biological effect two chemicals acting together and which is the simple sum of the effects of the chemicals acting independently. Compare: antagonism. (15 Jan 1998) |
| additive model | A model in which the combined effect of several factors is the sum of the effects that would be produced by each of the factors in the absence of the others. (05 Mar 2000) |
| big | 1. Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large. "He's too big to go in there." 2. Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; often figuratively. "[Day] big with the fate of Cato and of Rome." (Addison) 3. Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation, distention, etc, whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride. "God hath not in heaven a bigger argument." (Jer. Taylor) Big is often used in self-explaining compounds; as, big-boned; big-sounding; big-named; big-voiced. To talk big, to talk loudly, arrogantly, or pretentiously. "I talked big to them at first." (De Foe) Synonym: Bulky, large, great, massive, gross. Origin: Perh. From Celtic; cf. W. Beichiog, beichiawg, pregnant, with child, fr. Baich burden, Arm. Beac'h; or cf. OE. Bygly, Icel. Biggiligr, (properly) habitable; (then) magnigicent, excellent, fr. OE. Biggen, Icel. Byggja, to dwell, build, akin to E. Be. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| big axillary nodes and normal breasts | <radiology> Consider: lymphoma, leukaemia, rheumatoid arthritis (12 Dec 1998) |
| big brain | <molecular biology> Neurogenic gene of Drosophila, believed to encode a product involved in cell cell communication, perhaps via gap junctions. Member of the major intrinsic protein family. (18 Nov 1997) |
| big-head | 1. In horses, usually denotes osteodystrophia fibrosa. 2. Gas gangrene infection of tissues of the head, caused by Clostridium novyi in sheep, usually young rams with head wounds. 3. Photosensitization in sheep. 4. An acute disease of young rams caused by the Clostridium novyi, C. Sordellii or, rarely, C. Chauvoei and characterised by a nongaseous, nonhemorrhagic, edematous swelling of the head and neck. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sterile | 1. Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year. 2. <biology> Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens. Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid. 3. Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author. Origin: F. Sterile, L. Sterilis, akin to Gr. Stereos stiff, solid, stei^ros barren, stei^ra a cow that has not calved, Goth. Stairo, fem, barren. See Stare to gaze. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sterile abscess | An abscess whose contents are not caused by pyogenic bacteria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sterile cyst | A hydatid cyst without brood capsules or viable scoleces. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sterile insect technique | A technique used to control or eradicate insect pests or vectors, utilizing induction by irradiation of dominant lethality in the chromosomes of the released insects. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acrosomal cap | A collapsed membranous vesicle that covers the anterior part of the nucleus of the spermatozoon, derived from the acrosomal granule; the carbohydrate-rich substance of the cap is associated with hydrolytic enzymes that aid in sperm penetration of the zona pellucida of the ovum. Synonym: head cap. (05 Mar 2000) |
| apical cap | <radiology> Local pleural thickening at lung apex, ascribed incorrectly to TB, aetiology: non-specific fibrous scarring (most common), Pancoast tumour (12 Dec 1998) |
| bishop's cap | <botany> A plant of the genus Mitella; miterwort. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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