| WPk | Ward's pack; wet pack |
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| MEDEX, Medex | extension of physician [Fr. medicin extension] |
| misc | miscarriage; miscellaneous |
| HP | halogen phosphorus; handicapped person; haptoglobin; hard palate; Harvard pump; health profession(al... |
| HWP | hepatic wedge pressure; hot wet pack |
| ECE | Extracapsular extension |
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| F/E | Flexion-extension |
| KE | Knee extension |
| PEP | Primer extension preamplification |
| SNuPE | Single Nucleotide Primer Extension |
| blister pack | A package consisting of a clear plastic overlay affixed to a cardboard backing for protecting and displaying a product. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| pack | 1. A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for an animal; a bale, as of goods. 2. [Cf. Peck] A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden. "A pack of sorrows." "A pack of blessings." "In England, by a pack of meal is meant 280 lbs.; of wool, 240 lbs." 3. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; as: A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack. A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together. A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang; as, a pack of thieves or knaves. A shook of cask staves. A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously. 4. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely. 5. An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc, according to the method of treatment. 6. [Prob. The same word; but cf. AS. Pcan to deceive] A loose, lewd, or worthless person. See Baggage. Pack animal, an animal, as a horse, mule, etc, employed in carrying packs. Pack cloth, a coarse cloth, often duck, used in covering packs or bales. Pack horse. See Pack animal (above). Pack ice. See def. 4, above. Pack moth, a troop of pack animals. Origin: Akin to D. Pak, G. Pack, Dan. Pakke, Sw. Packa, Icel. Pakki, Gael. & Ir. Pac, Arm. Pak. Cf. Packet. 1. To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass; as to pack goods in a box; to pack fish. "Strange materials packed up with wonderful art." (Addison) "Where . . . The bones Of all my buried ancestors are packed." (Shak) 2. To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into; as, to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater. 3. To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly. "And mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown." (Pope) 4. Hence: To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result; as, to pack a jury or a causes. "The expected council was dwindling into . . . A packed assembly of Italian bishops." (Atterbury) 5. To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot. " He lost life . . . Upon a nice point subtilely devised and packed by his enemies." (Fuller) 6. To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber; as, to pack a horse. "Our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey." (Shack) 7. To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; sometimes with off; as, to pack a boy off to school. "He . . . Must not die" "Till George be packed with post horse up to heaven." (Shak) 8. To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. E, on the backs of men or beasts). 9. To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack. 10. <mechanics> To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam; as, to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine. Origin: Akin to D. Pakken, G. Packen, Dan. Pakke, Sw. Packa, Icel. Pakka. See Pack. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| cold pack | A pack of cloth or other material soaked in cold water or encasing ice. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wet pack | The usual form of pack using hot or cold moisture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hot pack | A pack of cloth or other material soaked in hot water, or producing moist heat by another means. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dry pack | A pack enveloping one in dry, warmed blankets in order to induce profuse perspiration. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ice pack | A cold local application to limit or reduce swelling in recently traumatised tissues; usually in the form of a water-impervious container for ice. Improvised means for containing ice (plastic bags, towels, etc.) are often employed, as are chemical sacks that when struck allow the commingling of chemicals that react endothermically. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Buck's extension | Apparatus for applying longitudinal skin traction on the leg through contact between the skin and adhesive tape; friction between the tape and skin permits application of force, which is applied through a cord over a pulley, suspending a weight; elevation of the foot of the bed allows the body to act as a counterweight. Synonym: Buck's traction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| paraplegia in extension | Paralysis of the legs, maintained in an extended position by hypertonic extensor muscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ridge extension | An intraoral surgical operation for deepening the labial, buccal, and/or lingual sulci; it is performed to increase the intraoral height of the alveolar ridge in order to assist denture retention. (05 Mar 2000) |
| crossed extension reflex | Extension of the contralateral hind limb when the paw of an animal is painfully stimulated or the central cut end of an afferent nerve, e.g., the peroneal, is stimulated; sometimes occurs in humans upon tapping the skin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| primer extension | A technique for determining the 5'-untranslated region of a specific mRNA molecule. Uses an oligonucleotide complementary to the known RNA sequence as a primer for cDNA synthesis via reverse transcriptase. (05 Mar 2000) |
| skeletal extension | Traction pull on a bone structure mediated through pin or wire inserted into the bone to reduce a fracture of long bones. Synonym: skeletal extension. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nail extension | An obsolete method of extension, by a weight on a nail or pin in the distal fragment of a fracture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| extension | 1. <orthopaedics> The movement by which the two elements of any jointed part are drawn away from each other. 2. <anatomy> A movement which brings the members of a limb into or toward a straight relation. Origin: L. Extensio (18 Nov 1997) |
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