| misc | miscarriage; miscellaneous |
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| CM | California mastitis [test]; calmodulin; capreomycin; carboxymethyl; cardiac murmur; cardiac muscle; ... |
| HCG, hCG | Human Chorionic Gonadotropin; »ç¶÷À¶¸ð¼º¼º¼±ÀÚ±ØÈ£¸£¸ó 1. Placental Glycoprotein Hormone &nbs... |
| M | 1) Murmur 2) Male; ³²ÀÚ |
| AAM | acute aseptic meningitis; American Academy of Microbiology; amino acid mixture; African American Mal... |
| CMS | Cytoplasmic male sterility |
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| MBC | Male breast cancer |
| MPH | Male pseudoherma phroditism |
| M:F | Male to female |
| MSL | Male-Specific Lethal |
| guard | 1. One who, or that which, guards from injury, danger, exposure, or attack; defense; protection. "His greatness was no guard to bar heaven's shaft." (Shak) 2. A man, or body of men, stationed to protect or control a person or position; a watch; a sentinel. "The guard which kept the door of the king's house." Kings xiv. 27. 3. One who has charge of a mail coach or a railway train; a conductor. 4. Any fixture or attachment designed to protect or secure against injury, soiling, or defacement, theft or loss; as: That part of a sword hilt which protects the hand. Ornamental lace or hem protecting the edge of a garment. A chain or cord for fastening a watch to one's person or dress. A fence or rail to prevent falling from the deck of a vessel. An extension of the deck of a vessel beyond the hull; especially, in side-wheel steam vessels, the framework of strong timbers, which curves out on each side beyond the paddle wheel, and protects it and the shaft against collision. A plate of metal, beneath the stock, or the lock frame, of a gun or pistol, having a loop, called a bow, to protect the trigger. An interleaved strip at the back, as in a scrap book, to guard against its breaking when filled. 5. A posture of defense in fencing, and in bayonet and saber exercise. 6. An expression or admission intended to secure against objections or censure. "They have expressed themselves with as few guards and restrictions as I." (Atterbury) 7. Watch; heed; care; attention; as, to keep guard. 8. <zoology> The fibrous sheath which covers the phragmacone of the Belemnites. Guard is often used adjectively or in combination; as, guard boat or guardboat; guardroom or guard room; guard duty. Advanced guard, Coast guard, etc. See Advanced, Coast, etc. Grand guard, one of the posts of the second line belonging to a system of advance posts of an army. Guard boat. A boat appointed to row the rounds among ships of war in a harbor, to see that their officers keep a good lookout. A boat used by harbor authorities to enforce the observance of quarantine regulations. <botany> Guard cells, to go on duty as a guard or sentinel. To run the guard, to pass the watch or sentinel without leave. Synonym: Defense, shield, protection, safeguard, convoy, escort, care, attention, watch, heed. Origin: OF. Guarde, F. Garde; of German origin; cf. OHG. Wart, marto, one who watches, mata a watching, Goth. Wardja watchman. See Guard. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| guard cell | <plant biology> Plant cells occurring in pairs in the epidermis, flanking each stoma. Changes in turgor in the guard cells cause the stoma to open and close. (18 Nov 1997) |
| breast neoplasms, male | Any neoplasms of the male breast. These occur infrequently in males in developed countries, the incidence being about 1% of that in females. Two-thirds of patients present with intraductal carcinoma. The average age of onset is 60 years for men. Orchiectomy was the standard treatment but it has been replaced by tamoxifen as the initial therapy since oestrogen-receptor-positive tumours are predominant in males. Orchiectomy and mastectomy may be used if initial drug therapy is not successful. The prognosis is worse than that for females. (12 Dec 1998) |
| male | See Mal-. Evil; wicked; bad. Origin: L. Malus. See Malice. Same as Mail, a bag. 1. Of or pertaining to the sex that begets or procreates young, or (in a wider sense) to the sex that produces spermatozoa, by which the ova are fertilized; not female; as, male organs. 2. <botany> Capable of producing fertilization, but not of bearing fruit; said of stamens and antheridia, and of the plants, or parts of plants, which bear them. 3. Suitable to the male sex; characteristic or suggestive of a male; masculine; as, male courage. 4. Consisting of males; as, a male choir. 5. <mechanics> Adapted for entering another corresponding piece (the female piece) which is hollow and which it fits; as, a male gauge, for gauging the size or shape of a hole; a male screw, etc. <botany> Male berry, a screw having threads upon its exterior which enter the grooves upon the inside of a corresponding nut or female screw. Male thread, the thread of a male screw. Origin: F. Male, OF. Masle, mascle, fr. L. Masculus male, masculine, dim. Of mas a male; possibly akin to E. Man. Cf. Masculine, Marry. 1. An animal of the male sex. 2. <botany> A plant bearing only staminate flowers. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| male breast | One of the two, usually rudimentary, mammary glands in the male. Synonym: mamma masculina, mamma virilis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| male chromosome complement | The large majority of males have a 46, xy chromosome complement (46 chromosomes including an x and a y chromosome). A minority of males have other chromosome constitutions such as 47,xxy (47 chromosomes including two x chromosomes and a y chromosome) and 47,xyy (47 chromosomes including an x and two y chromosomes). (12 Dec 1998) |
| male gonad | <anatomy> One of the two male reproductive glands located in the cavity of the scrotum. The testes produce sperm and male sex hormones. (13 Nov 1997) |
| male hermaphroditism | More correctly designated as male pseudohermaphroditism, as the term is commonly used; however, it may designate an instance of true hermaphroditism in which overt bodily characteristics are predominantly male. (05 Mar 2000) |
| male homosexuality | Erotic predisposition, or activity, including sexual congress, between two men, past the age of puberty. (05 Mar 2000) |
| male hypogonadism | A state in which testes are present but fail to function normally; may be of gonadal or pituitary origin. Synonym: eunuchism, male hypogonadism. Hypergonadotropic eunuchoidism, eunuchoidism of gonadal origin, commonly accompanied by enhanced levels of pituitary gonadotropins in the blood and urine, as in Klinefelter's syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| male infertility | <radiology> Low sperm count, decreased motility/morphology, autoimmunity (12 Dec 1998) |
| male-odour | See Malodor. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| male pattern alopecia | The most common form of androgenic alopecia, seen in men as receding frontal and bilateral triangular temple hair lines, and a balding patch on the vertex, which may progress to complete alopecia. Synonym: male pattern baldness. (05 Mar 2000) |
| male pattern baldness | The most common form of androgenic alopecia, seen in men as receding frontal and bilateral triangular temple hair lines, and a balding patch on the vertex, which may progress to complete alopecia. Synonym: male pattern baldness. (05 Mar 2000) |
| male pseudohermaphroditism | Pseudohermaphroditism in which the gonads are male and the karyotype is XY but with genital anomalies. (05 Mar 2000) |
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