| EBS | elastic back strap; electric brain stimulation; Emergency Bed Service; epidermolysis bullosa simplex... |
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| misc | miscarriage; miscellaneous |
| FSI | foam stability index; Food Sanitation Institute; functional status index; function status index |
| FST | foam stability test |
| SF | Sabin-Feldman [test]; safety factor; salt-free; scarlet fever; screen film; seminal fluid; serosal f... |
| PUF | polyurethane foam |
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| EEL | External elastic lamina |
| EEM | External elastic membrane |
| IEL | Internal elastic lamina |
| QELS | Quasi elastic light scattering |
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| dover's powder | <alchemy> A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in England (as formerly in the United States) with sulphate of potash, and in France (as in Dr. Dover's original prescription) with nitrate and sulphate of potash and licorice. It is an anodyne diaphoretic. Origin: From Dr. Dover, an English physician. (04 Mar 1998) |
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| clavicle strap | <orthopaedics> Also called a figure of 8 strap. This orthopaedic device is worn something like a back pack an allows improved healing of a fractured clavicle (improves the alignment of the fractured ends). (27 Sep 1997) |
| safety strap | <dentistry> A plastic strap which prevents a face-bow from coming loose and hurting you. (08 Jan 1998) |
| sandal strap dermatitis | Allergic contact on the dorsal surfaces of the feet, caused by synthetic rubber sandal straps or additives to natural rubber. (05 Mar 2000) |
| strap | 1. A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like; specifically, a strip of thick leather used in flogging. "A lively cobbler that . . . Had scarce passed a day without giving her [his wife] the discipline of the strap." (Addison) 2. Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use; as, a boot strap, shawl strap, stirrup strap. 3. A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for sharpening a razor; a strop. 4. A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass. <machinery> Specifically: A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine. A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything. 5. <botany> The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy. The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses. 6. A shoulder strap. See Shoulder. Strap bolt, a bolt of which one end is a flat bar of considerable length. Strap head, a flat rail formerly used. Origin: OE. Strope, AS. Stropp, L. Stroppus, struppus, perhaps fr. Gr. A band or cord, fr. To twist, to turn (cf. Strophe). Cf. Strop a strap, a piece of rope. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| strap cell | An elongated tumour cell of uniform width that may show cross-striations; found in rhabdomyosarcoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| strap muscles | The small, flat muscles inferior to the hyoid bone including the sternohyoid, omohyoid, sternothyroid, thyrohyoid, and levator muscle of the thyroid gland. Synonym: musculi infrahyoidei, strap muscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sea foam | 1. Foam of sea water. 2. <chemical> Meerschaum. Synonym: sea froth. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| human fibrin foam | A dry artificial sponge of human fibrin prepared by clotting with thrombin a foam of a solution of human fibrinogen; the clotted foam is dried from the frozen state and heated; used as a topical anticoagulant. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fibrin foam | <chemical> A dry artificial sterile sponge of fibrin prepared by clotting with thrombin a foam or solution of fibrinogen. It is used in conjunction with thrombin as a haemostatic in surgery at sites where bleeding cannot be controlled by more common methods. Pharmacological action: haemostatics, tissue adhesives. (12 Dec 1998) |
| foam | 1. To gather foam; to froth; as, the billows foam. "He foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth." (Mark ix. 18) 2. To form foam, or become filled with foam; said of a steam boiler when the water is unduly agitated and frothy, as because of chemical action. Origin: AS. F?man. See Foam, n. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| foam cell | <pathology> Lipid laden macrophages and, to a lesser extent smooth muscle cells, found in fatty streaks on the arterial wall. (18 Nov 1997) |
| foam cells | Lipid-laden macrophages originating from monocytes or from smooth muscle cells. (12 Dec 1998) |
| foam stability test | A test for foetal pulmonary maturity, determined by the ability of pulmonary surfactant in amniotic fluid to generate stable foam in the presence of ethanol after mechanical agitation. Synonym: shake test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anterior elastic layer | A transparent homogeneous acellular layer, 6 to 9 um thick, lying between the basal lamina of the outer layer of stratified epithelium and the substantia propria of the cornea; considered to be a basement membrane. Synonym: lamina limitans anterior corneae, anterior elastic layer, Bowman's membrane, lamina elastica anterior, limiting layers of cornea. (05 Mar 2000) |
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