| LAF | laminar air flow; Latin American female; leukocyte-activating factor; lymphocyte-activating factor |
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| LAM | laminectomy; laminin; late ambulatory monitoring; Latin American male; left anterior measurement; le... |
| Lat | Latin |
| L/F | Latin female |
| L/M | Latin male |
| IDSA | Infectious Disease Society of America |
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| INCAP | Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama |
| U.S.A. | United States of America |
North America
| latin america | The geographic area of latin america in general and when the specific country or countries are not indicated. It usually includes central america, south america, mexico, and the islands of the caribbean. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| neo-latin | Applied to the Romance languages, as being mostly of Latin origin. Origin: Neo- + Latin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| latin | 1. A native or inhabitant of Latium; a Roman. 2. The language of the ancient Romans. 3. An exercise in schools, consisting in turning English into Latin. 4. A member of the Roman Catholic Church. (<xe see: Dog Latin, barbarous Latin; a jargon in imitation of Latin; as, the log Latin of schoolboys. Late Latin, Low Latin, terms used indifferently to designate the latest stages of the Latin language; low Latin (and, perhaps, late Latin also), including the barbarous coinages from the French, German, and other languages into a Latin form made after the Latin had become a dead language for the people. Law Latin, that kind of late, or low, Latin, used in statutes and legal instruments; often barbarous. 1. Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language. 2. Of, pertaining to, or composed in, the language used by the Romans or Latins; as, a Latin grammar; a Latin composition or idiom. Latin Church, the Western or Roman Catholic Church, as distinct from the Greek or Eastern Church. Latin cross. Latin races, a designation sometimes loosely given to certain nations, especially. The French, Spanish, and Italians, who speak languages principally derived from Latin. Latin Union, an association of states, originally comprising France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy, which, in 1865, entered into a monetary agreement, providing for an identity in the weight and fineness of the gold and silver coins of those countries, and for the amounts of each kind of coinage by each. Greece, Servia, Roumania, and Spain subsequently joined the Union. Origin: F, fr. L. Latinus belonging to Latium, Latin, fr. Latium a country of Italy, in which Rome was situated. Cf. Ladin, Lateen sail. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Latin square | A statistical design for experiments that removes from experimental error the variation from two sources that may be identified with the rows and columns of a square. The allocation of experimental treatments is such that each treatment occurs exactly once in each row and column. For example, a design for a 5 × 5 square is as follows: (05 Mar 2000) |
Synonyms :
| latin america | the parts of North and South America south of the United States where Romance languages (Spanish and Portuguese) are spoken |
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| latin america | a resident of Latin America |
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