A & E medicine Quick reference
Concise Medical Dictionary (10 ed.)
accident and emergency medicine: an important specialty dealing with the immediate problems of the acutely ill and injured. See also...
A & E medicine n. Quick reference
A Dictionary of Nursing (8 ed.)
accident and emergency medicine: an important specialty dealing with the immediate problems of the acutely ill and injured. See also...
a- Quick reference
Concise Medical Dictionary (10 ed.)
prefix denoting absence of; lacking; not. Examples: amastia (absence of breasts); amorphic (lacking definite form); atoxic (not poisonous).
a- Quick reference
A Dictionary of Dentistry (2 ed.)
Prefix denoting absence of, lacking, without; e.g. atoxic (not poisonous), abacterial (without bacteria).
A-band Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine (3 ed.)
Part of a muscle sarcomere that comprises several thick myosin filaments held between thinner actin filaments. It appears as a dark band when viewed under a microscope. ...
A-DNA Quick reference
A Dictionary of Biomedicine (2 ed.)
One of the double helical structures that can be adopted by DNA, a right-handed double helix fairly similar to *...
A-O Quick reference
Concise Medical Dictionary (10 ed.)
Association for Osteosynthesis: denoting a widely used system for treating fractures by metal inserts.
A-scan n. Quick reference
Concise Medical Dictionary (10 ed.)
examination of ocular tissue, including measurement of the length of the eye (axial length), by means of a high-frequency ultrasound machine. ...
A–S Reaction Study n. Quick reference
A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
An early personality inventory designed to measure ascendance versus submissiveness in everyday social relationships, constructed by the US psychologists Gordon W(illard) Allport...
A–S scale abbrev. Quick reference
A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
A scale to measure anti-Semitism (prejudice against or hostility to Jews), especially the scale first published by the German philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist ...
A-state Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine (3 ed.)
A temporary state of anxiety evoked by a particular situation (see state anxiety).
A-trait Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine (3 ed.)
An enduring personality factor indicating an individual's predisposition to experience anxiety under stress.
A-type channels Quick reference
A Dictionary of Biomedicine (2 ed.)
a.c. Quick reference
A Dictionary of Nursing (8 ed.)
Latin: before food, used as a direction in prescriptions.
A/S ratio abbrev. Quick reference
A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
Association/sensation ratio, an index of the comparative *intelligence of mammalian species formulated by the Canadian psychologist Donald O(lding) Hebb...
A20 Quick reference
A Dictionary of Biomedicine (2 ed.)
A cytoplasmic zinc finger protein (790 aa) that inhibits *NFκB activity and TNF-mediated programmed cell death. The expression of the A20 mRNA is upregulated by TNF...
A431 Quick reference
A Dictionary of Biomedicine (2 ed.)
A human cell line established from an epidermoid carcinoma, often used in studies on *EGF.
