| WPk | Ward's pack; wet pack |
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| HP | halogen phosphorus; handicapped person; haptoglobin; hard palate; Harvard pump; health profession(al... |
| HWP | hepatic wedge pressure; hot wet pack |
| MP | macrophage; matrix protein; mean pressure; melphalan and prednisone; melting point; membrane potenti... |
| WP | weakly positive; wedge pressure; wet pack; wettable powder; whirlpool; white pulp; word processor; w... |
| CVL | Cervico-vaginal lavages |
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| CVR | Contraceptive Vaginal Ring |
| HVS | High vaginal swabs |
| LAVH | Laparoscopic Assisted Vaginal Hysterectomy |
| LAVH | Laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy |
| 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) |
| vaginal | 1. Of the nature of a sheath, ensheathing. 2. <anatomy> Pertaining to the vagina. 3. Pertaining to the tunica vaginalis testis. (18 Nov 1997) |
| vaginal artery | <anatomy, artery> Origin, internal iliac; distribution, vagina, base of bladder, rectum; anastomoses, uterine, internal pudendal. Synonym: arteria vaginalis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vaginal atresia | Congenital or acquired imperforation or occlusion of the vagina, or adhesion of the walls of the vagina. Synonym: ankylocolpos, colpatresia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vaginal birth after cesarean | Delivery of an infant through the vagina in a female who has had a prior cesarean section. (12 Dec 1998) |
| vaginal birth after cesarian section | It was once the rule that after a c-section, the next delivery also had to be by c-section. Now vaginal delivery after cesarian section (vbac) is frequently feasible. See: vbac. (12 Dec 1998) |
| vaginal columns | Two slight longitudinal ridges, anterior and posterior, in the vaginal mucous membrane, each marked by a number of transverse mucosal folds. Synonym: columnae rugarum, vaginal columns. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vaginal cornification test | A test for oestrogenic activity, in which the appearance of cornified epithelial cells in a vaginal smear of a test animal is an indication of the action of an oestrogen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vaginal creams, foams and jellies | Medicated dosage forms for topical application in the vagina. A cream is a semisolid emulsion containing suspended or dissolved medication; a foam is a dispersion of a gas in a medicated liquid resulting in a light, frothy mass; a jelly is a colloidal semisolid mass of a water soluble medicated material, usually translucent. The concept includes vaginal creams, foams, and jellies in general or for which there is no other specific heading. (12 Dec 1998) |
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