| AAPCC | adjusted annual per capita cost; adjusted average per capita cost; American Association of Poison Co... |
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| CAPCC | Canadian Association of Poison Control Centers |
| PCC | Pasteur Culture Collection; percutaneous cecostomy; pheochromocytoma; phosphate carrier compound; pl... |
| PCIC | Poison Control Information Center |
| PI | first meiotic prophase; isoelectric point; pacing impulse; package insert; pancreatic insufficiency;... |
| CCTR | Cochrane Controlled Trial Register |
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| NHS-CR | National Health Service Central Register |
| AAPCC | American Association of Poison Control Center's |
| PSP | Paralytic Shellfish Poison |
| PCC | Poison Control Center |
| register | 1. A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule. "As you have one eye upon my follies, . . . Turn another into the register of your own." (Shak) 2. A record containing a list and description of the merchant vessels belonging to a port or customs district. A certificate issued by the collector of customs of a port or district to the owner of a vessel, containing the description of a vessel, its name, ownership, and other material facts. It is kept on board the vessel, to be used as an evidence of nationality or as a muniment of title. 3. [Cf. LL. Registrarius. Cf. Regisrar] One who registers or records; a registrar; a recorder; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain transactions or events; as, a register of deeds. 4. That which registers or records. Specifically: The part of a telegraphic apparatus which records automatically the message received. A machine for registering automatically the number of persons passing through a gateway, fares taken, etc.; a telltale. 5. A lid, stopper, or sliding plate, in a furnace, stove, etc, for regulating the admission of air to the fuel; also, an arrangement containing dampers or shutters, as in the floor or wall of a room or passage, or in a chimney, for admitting or excluding heated air, or for regulating ventilation. 6. The inner part of the mold in which types are cast. The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or reverse sides of the sheet. The correspondence or adjustment of the several impressions in a design which is printed in parts, as in chromolithographic printing, or in the manufacture of paper hangings. See Register. 7. The compass of a voice or instrument; a specified portion of the compass of a voice, or a series of vocal tones of a given compass; as, the upper, middle, or lower register; the soprano register; the tenor register. In respect to the vocal tones, the thick register properly extends below from the F on the lower space of the treble staff. The thin register extends an octave above this. The small register is above the thin. The voice in the thick register is called the chest voice; in the thin, the head voice. Falsetto is a kind off voice, of a thin, shrull quality, made by using the mechanism of the upper thin register for tones below the proper limit on the scale. A stop or set of pipes in an organ. Parish register, A book in which are recorded the births, baptisms, marriages, deaths, and burials in a parish. Synonym: List, catalogue, roll, record, archives, chronicle, annals. See List. Origin: OE. Registre, F. Registre, LL. Registrum,regestum, L. Regesta, pl, fr. Regerere, regestum, to carry back, to register; pref. Re- re- + gerere to carry. See Jest, and cf. Regest. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| half register | <molecular biology> A misalignment between two identical sets of repeating units of nucleotides within two copies of the same chromosome (one set of repeating units per copy of the chromosome), where repeating unit A from one set is inappropriately aligned with repeating unit B on the other set, so that ABABAB on one set would be aligned with BABABA on the other set instead of the correct ABABAB with ABABAB. (13 Nov 1997) |
| acrid poison | A poison that causes a destructive local irritation as well as systemic effects. (05 Mar 2000) |
| arrow poison | Any natural toxin used for coating arrows, spears, and darts (e.g., extracts containing aconitin, ouabain, cardiac glycosides, batrachotoxin, curare, etc.). (05 Mar 2000) |
| respiratory poison | A compound that inhibits the respiratory chain. Synonym: respiratory poison. (05 Mar 2000) |
| poison | 1. Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases. 2. That which taints or destroys moral purity or health; as, the poison of evil example; the poison of sin. Poison ash. <botany> A poisonous shrub of the genus Rhus (R. Venenata); also called poison ash, poison dogwood, and poison elder. It has pinnate leaves on graceful and slender common petioles, and usually grows in swampy places. Both this plant and the poison ivy (Rhus Toxicodendron) have clusters of smooth greenish white berries, while the red-fruited species of this genus are harmless. The tree (Rhus vernicifera) which yields the celebrated Japan lacquer is almost identical with the poison sumac, and is also very poisonous. The juice of the poison sumac also forms a lacquer similar to that of Japan. Synonym: Venom, virus, bane, pest, malignity. Poison, Venom. Poison usually denotes something received into the system by the mouth, breath, etc. Venom is something discharged from animals and received by means of a wound, as by the bite or sting of serpents, scorpions, etc. Hence, venom specifically implies some malignity of nature or purpose. Origin: F. Poison, in Old French also, a potion, fr. L. Potio a drink, draught, potion, a poisonous draught, fr. Potare to drink. See Potable, and cf. Potion. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| poison control centres | Facilities which provide information concerning poisons and treatment of poisoning in emergencies. (12 Dec 1998) |
| poison ivy | <botany> A plant that causes a marked allergic (contact) dermatitis in the majority of individuals. (27 Sep 1997) |
| poison oak | Poison oak is a form of contact dermatitis or inflammation of the skin resulting from chemicals produced from the poison oak plant contacting the skin. The chemicals cause an immune reaction producing redness, itching and blistering of the skin. (12 Dec 1998) |
| slash, burn, and poison | Brutal medical slang term for surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy (as approaches to the treatment of cancer). (12 Dec 1998) |
| fish poison | A toxic principle in certain fishes. Synonym: fish poison. Origin: ichthyo-+ G. Toxikon, poison (05 Mar 2000) |
| fugu poison | A poison in the roe and other parts of various species of Diodon, Triodon, and Tetradon, fishes of eastern Asiatic waters. Synonym: fish poison. Origin: Jap. Fugu, a poisonous fish (05 Mar 2000) |
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