| 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 |
| DLM | dorsal longitudinal flight muscle |
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| IFM | Indirect Flight Muscle |
| MALDI-TOF MS | Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry |
| MALDI-TOF | Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight |
| MALDI-TOF | Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry |
| 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) |
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| 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) |
| flight nurse | A nurse who cares for clients during transport in any type of aircraft. (05 Mar 2000) |
| flight of ideas | An uncontrollable symptom of the manic phase of a bipolar depressive disorder in which streams of unrelated words and ideas occur to the patient at a rate that is impossible to vocalise despite a marked increase in the individual's overall output of words. See: mania. (05 Mar 2000) |
| flight or fight response | See: emergency theory. (05 Mar 2000) |
| space flight | Travel beyond the earth's atmosphere. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| 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) |
Synonyms : Animal Flight, Animal Flights, Flights, Animal
| flight of ideas |
(flight of ideas) (fl[imacr]t of i-de?schwa]z) a nearly continuous flow of rapid speech that jumps from topic to topic, usually based on discernible associations, distractions, or plays on words, but in severe cases so rapid as to be disorganized and incoherent. It is most commonly seen in manic episodes but may also occur in other mental disorders such as in manic phases of schizophrenia.
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| flight of ideas |
Verbal skipping from one idea to another before the last one has been concluded.
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A continuous change of subject and thought content with little apparent connection among the topics and little external stimulation for the change. This may be one manifestation of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
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| flight of ideas |
A nearly continuous flow or accelerated speech with abrupt changes from topic to topic, usually based on understandable associations, distracting stimuli, or plays on words.
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| flight b. |
amaurosis fugax caused by high centrifugal forces encountered in aviation.
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| flight | the act of escaping physically |
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| flight | a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports |
| flight | an instance of traveling by air |
| flight | a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next |
| flight | passing above and beyond ordinary bounds |
| flight | an air force unit smaller than a squadron |
| flight | a formation of aircraft in flight |
| flight | a flock of flying birds |
| flight | the path followed by an object moving through space |
| flight | decorate with feathers, as of an arrow or dart |
| flight | fly in a flock, as of wild geese |
| flight | shoot a bird in flight |
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