| FMC | family medicine center; flight medicine clinic; focal macular choroidopathy; foundation for medical ... |
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| FMO | falvin-containing monooxygenase; Fleet Medical Officer; Flight Medical Officer |
| FOI | Flight of ideas [psych] |
| IMSS | in-flight medical support system |
| tcTOFA | time constrained time-of-flight absorbance |
| COPES | Community Oriented Program Environment Scale |
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| FES | Family Environment Scale |
| HOME | Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment |
| VE | Virtual Environment |
| DLM | dorsal longitudinal flight muscle |
| health facility environment | Physical surroundings or conditions of a hospital or other health facility and influence of these factors on patients and staff. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| social environment | The aggregate of social and cultural institutions, forms, patterns, and processes that influence the life of an individual or community. (12 Dec 1998) |
| isotropic environment | Environments in which the properties are the same at all points and there are no vectorial or axial cues. (18 Nov 1997) |
| environment | <biology, zoology> The sum total of all the conditions and elements which make up the surroundings and influence the development and actions of an individual. (18 Nov 1997) |
| environment and public health | Natural and man-made environments and their impact on public health. (12 Dec 1998) |
| environment, controlled | A state in which the environs of hospitals, laboratories, domestic and animal housing, work places, spacecraft, and other surroundings are under technological control with regard to air conditioning, heating, lighting, humidity, ventilation, and other ambient features. The concept includes control of atmospheric composition. (12 Dec 1998) |
| environment design | The structuring of the environment to permit or promote specific patterns of behaviour. (12 Dec 1998) |
| extraterrestrial environment | <astronomy> The environment outside the earth or its atmosphere. The environment may refer to a closed cabin (such as a space shuttle or space station) or to space itself, the moon, or other planets. (12 Dec 1998) |
| space flight | Travel beyond the earth's atmosphere. (12 Dec 1998) |
| time of flight | The time for a photon created by annihilation of a positron-electron pair to reach a detector; since annihilation photons are created in pairs and travel in opposite directions at about 3 × 1010 cm/sec, measurement of the difference in arrival time at detectors with sub-nanosecond resolution allows calculation of the location of the event; the basic physics of positron emission tomography. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fight or flight reaction | The theory advanced by Walter Cannon, that in the autonomic nervous system and the effectors connected with it, the organism in situations of danger requiring either fight or flight is provided with a check-and-drive mechanism that puts it in readiness to meet emergencies with undivided energy output. Also known as the emergency theory. (05 Mar 2000) |
| flight | 1. The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying. "Like the night owl's lazy flight." (Shak) 2. The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure. "Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter." (Matt. Xxiv. 20) "Fain by flight to save themselves." (Shak) 3. Lofty elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soaing; as, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly. "Could he have kept his spirit to that flight, He had been happy." (Byron) "His highest flights were indeed far below those of Taylor." (Macaulay) 4. A number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season; as, a flight of arrows. "Swift flights of angels ministrant." (Milton) "Like a flight of fowl Scattered winds and tempestuous gusts." (Shak) 5. A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another. 6. A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft. "Challenged Cupid at the flight." (Shak) "Not a flight drawn home E'er made that haste that they have." (Beau. & Fl) 7. The husk or glume of oats. <zoology> Flight feathers, the wing feathers of a bird, including the quills, coverts, and bastard wing. See Bird. To put to flight, To turn to flight, to compel to run away; to force to flee; to rout. Synonym: Pair, set. See Pair. Origin: AS. Fliht, flyht, a flying, fr. Fleogan to fly; cf. Flyht a fleeing, fr. Fleon to flee, G. Flucht a fleeing, Sw. Flykt, G. Flug a flying, Sw. Flygt, D. Vlugt a fleeing or flying, Dan. Flugt. See Flee, Fly. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| flight blindness | Visual blackout in aviators. See: amaurosis fugax. (05 Mar 2000) |
| flight into disease | Gain through falling ill or assuming the sick role. See: primary gain, secondary gain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| flight into health | In dynamic psychotherapy, the early but often only temporary disappearance of the symptoms that ostensibly brought the patient into therapy; a defense against the anxiety engendered by the prospect of further psychoanalytic exploration of the patient's conflicts. (05 Mar 2000) |
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