| SAS | sarcoma amplified sequence; self-rating anxiety scale; short arm splint; Sklar Aphasia Scale; sleep ... |
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| FEE | forced equilibrating expiration |
| FFS | fat-free solids; fee for services |
| MFS | Marfan syndrome; Medicare fee schedule |
| PDUFA | Prescription Drug User Fee Act |
| FFS | Fee-For-Service |
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| MFS | Medicare Fee Schedule |
| AIS | ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE |
| AIMS | Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale |
| ADVS | Activities of Daily Vision Scale |
| capitation fee | A method of payment for health services in which an individual or institutional provider is paid a fixed, per capita amount without regard to the actual number or nature of services provided to each patient. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| tipping fee | A fee for disposal of waste. (05 Dec 1998) |
| fee | 1. Property; possession; tenure. "Laden with rich fee." "Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee." (Wordsworth) 2. Reward or compensation for services rendered or to be rendered; especially, payment for professional services, of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge; pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians; the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage fees, etc. "To plead for love deserves more fee than hate." (Shak) 3. A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief. 4. An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner. All the land in England, except the crown land, is of this kind. An absolute fee, or fee simple, is land which a man holds to himself and his heirs forever, who are called tenants in fee simple. In modern writers, by fee is usually meant fee simple. A limited fee may be a qualitified or base fee, which ceases with the existence of certain conditions; or a conditional fee, or fee tail, which is limited to particular heirs. 5. An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure. Fee estate, an absolute fee; a fee without conditions or limits. "Buy the fee simple of my life for an hour and a quarter." (Shak) Fee tail, an estate of inheritance, limited and restrained to some particular heirs. Origin: OE. Fe, feh, feoh, cattle, property, money, fiet, AS. Feoh cattle, property, money; the senses of "property, money," arising from cattle being used in early times as a medium of exchange or payment, property chiefly consisting of cattle; akin to OS. Feuh cattle, property, D. Vee cattle, OHG. Fihu, fehu, G. Vieh, Icel. F cattle, property, money, Goth. Faihu, L. Pecus cattle, pecunia property. Money, Skr. Pau cattle, perh. Orig, "a fastened or tethered animal," from a root signifying to bind, and perh. Akin to E. Fang, fair,; cf. OF. Fie, flu, feu, fleu, fief, F. Fief, from German, of the same origin. The sense fief is due to the French. 249. Cf. Feud, Fief, Fellow, Pecuniary. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| fee-for-service plans | Method of charging whereby a physician or other practitioner bills for each encounter or service rendered. In addition to physicians, other health care professionals are reimbursed via this mechanism. Fee-for-service plans contrast with salary, per capita, and prepayment systems, where the payment does not change with the number of services actually used or if none are used. (12 Dec 1998) |
| fee schedules | A listing of established professional service charges, for specified dental and medical procedures. (12 Dec 1998) |
| C sliding osteotomy | An extraoral osteotomy in the shape of a "C" performed bilaterally in the mandibular rami for the correction of retrognathia and/or apertognathia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sliding | 1. That slides or slips; gliding; moving smoothly. 2. Slippery; elusory. "That sliding science hath me made so bare." (Chaucer) Sliding friction, the timber guides used in launching a vessel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sliding filament hypothesis | The theory that the contracting muscle shortens because two sets of filaments slide past each other. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sliding filament model | <cell biology> Generally accepted model for the way in which contraction occurs in the sarcomere of striated muscle, by the sliding of the thick filaments relative to the thin filaments. (18 Nov 1997) |
| sliding flap | A rectangular flap raised in an elastic area, with its free end adjacent to a defect; the defect is covered by stretching the flap longitudinally until the end comes over it. Synonym: advancement flap, French flap. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sliding hernia | A hernia in which an abdominal viscus forms part of the sac. Synonym: extrasaccular hernia, parasaccular hernia, slipped hernia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sliding hiatal hernia | <radiology> Axial hernia, concentric hernia, 99% of hiatal hernias, portion of peritoneal sac forms part of wall of hernia, aetiology: rupture of phrenicoesophageal membrane due to repetitive stretching with swallowing, incidence: increases with age Findings: UGI, epiphrenic bulge, distance between B ring and hiatal margin greater than 2cm, tortuous oesophagus, gastroesophageal reflux, greater than 6 thick gastric folds within suprahiatal pouch, CT, dehiscence of diaphragmtic crura greater than 15 mm, pseudomass within/above distal oesophagus, fat (omemtum) surrounding distal oesophagus (12 Dec 1998) |
| sliding hook | A movable attachment used on an orthodontic wire for the application of elastic traction or headgear force. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sliding oblique osteotomy | An oral surgical procedure in which the mandibular ramus is cut vertically from the sigmoid notch to the angle to facilitate posterior repositioning of the mandible in correction of mandibular prognathism; it may be performed extraorally or intraorally, and is similar to vertical osteotomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sliding oesophageal hiatal hernia | Displacement of the cardioesophageal junction and the stomach through the oesophageal hiatus. (05 Mar 2000) |
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