| QRB | Quality Review Bulletin |
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| DES | Di-Ethyl-Stilbestrol |
| AIC | Akaike's information criterion [a goodness-of-fit measure]; aminoimidazole carboxamide; Association ... |
| APIM | Association Professionnelle Internationale des Medecins |
| BIPM | International Bureau of Weights and Measures [Fr. Bureau International des Poids et Mesures] |
| Des-Arg9-BK | Des-Arg9-bradykinin |
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| LEO | Low Earth Orbit |
| DCP | Des-gamma-carboxy prothrombin |
| DES | Desflurane |
| DGAVP | des-glycinamide (Arg8)-vasopressin |
| American Law Institute formulation | Used in certain jurisdictions to determine criminal responsibility in legal proceedings. See: criminal insanity. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| American Law Institute rule | A test of criminal responsibility (1962): "a person is not responsible for criminal conduct if at the time of such conduct as a result of mental disease or defect he lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law." (05 Mar 2000) |
| national institute for occupational safety and health | An institute of the centres for disease control and prevention which is responsible for assuring safe and healthful working conditions and for developing standards of safety and health. Research activities are carried out pertinent to these goals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| national institute of mental health | A component of the national institutes of health concerned with research, overall planning, promoting, and administering mental health programs and research. (12 Dec 1998) |
| institute | 1. The act of instituting; institution. "Water sanctified by Christ's institute." 2. That which is instituted, established, or fixed, as a law, habit, or custom. 3. Hence: An elementary and necessary principle; a precept, maxim, or rule, recognised as established and authoritative; usually in the plural, a collection of such principles and precepts; especially, a comprehensive summary of legal principles and decisions; as, the Institutes of Justinian; Coke's Institutes of the Laws of England. Cf. Digest, "They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy." (Burke) "To make the Stoics' institutes thy own." (Dryden) 4. An institution; a society established for the promotion of learning, art, science, etc.; a college; as, the Institute of Technology; also, a building owned or occupied by such an institute; as, the Cooper Institute. 5. The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation. Institutes of medicine, theoretical medicine; that department of medical science which attempts to account philosophically for the various phenomena of health as well as of disease; physiology applied to the practice of medicine. Origin: L. Institutum: cf. F. Institut. See Institute, &. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| institute of medicine | Identifies, for study and analysis, important issues and problems that relate to health and medicine. The institute initiates and conducts studies of national policy and planning for health care and health-related education and research; it also responds to requests from the federal government and other agencies for studies and advice. (12 Dec 1998) |
| maladie des jambes | Ill-defined disease seen among rice-growers in Louisiana. (05 Mar 2000) |
| peste des petits ruminants virus | A highly contagious systemic disease of sheep and goats in West Africa, caused by a morbillivirus called peste des petits ruminants virus. It is characterised by fever, anorexia, a necrotic stomatitis with gingivitis, diarrhoea and can often cause a severe, often fatal enteritis and pneumonia. (20 Sep 2002) |
| complement 5a, des-arginine | Complement 5a with the carboxy-terminal arginine removed. The arginine is rapidly cleaved from the c5a fragment during complement activation by carboxypeptidase b present in normal human serum. C5a des-arg shows complete loss of spasmogenic activity though it retains some chemotactic ability. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Corvisart des Marets | Baron Jean N., French clinician, 1755-1821. See: Corvisart's facies. (05 Mar 2000) |
| DES | <drug> A synthetic oestrogen (originally prescribed to prevent miscarriage) that caused malformations of the reproductive organs in some who were exposed to the drug during foetal development. (09 Oct 1997) |
| des- | <chemistry, prefix> A prefix indicating absence of some component of the principal part of the name; largely replaced by de-(e.g., deoxyribonucleic acid, dehydro-) but retained where "de" could be taken for d or d, as part of "desmo" (e.g., desmosterol), and in such terms as desoxycortone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| des(121-124)-ribonuclease | <enzyme> Deriv of ribonuclease EC 3.1.4.22 Registry number: EC 3.1.4.- Synonym: des(121-124)-rnase (26 Jun 1999) |
| Buerger, Leo | <person> Austrian-U.S. Physician, 1879-1943. See: Winiwarter-Buerger disease, Buerger's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Eloesser, Leo | <person> U.S. Thoracic surgeon, 1881-1976. See: Eloesser procedure. (05 Mar 2000) |
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