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A.

  • Chemical symbol for Argon

  • Abbreviation for accommodation, acetum, Angstrom unit, anode, anterior, arteria, axial

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    a.

  • Abbreviation for accommodation, ampere, anode, anterior, aqua, arteria

  • Symbol for total acidity

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    a- or an-

  • A prefix signifying without or not and used mainly with words of Greek origin.

  • A Latin prefix implying separation.

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    Aaron's Sign

  • Named after Charles D. Aaron a USA physician, 1866-1951. Demonstration of a painful sensation or distress in the epigastric or precordial region on putting pressure over McBurney's point in appendicitis.

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    aasmus

  • Asthma (from the Greek aasmos = breathing).

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    A.B.

  • Abbreviation for the Latin Artium Baccalaureus, Bachelor of Arts, and for axiobuccal.

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    ab.

  • Latin preposition meaning 'from'

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    abacterial

  • Free from bacteria (not necessarily sterile) also nonbacterial.

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    abactio

  • Induced abortion (Latin)

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    abactus venter

  • Induced abortion (Latin)

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    Abadie's Sign

  • Charles A. Abadie was a French opthalmologist (1842-1932. The sign is a spasm of the levator palpebrae superioris muscle as seen in exophthalmic goiter.

  • Jean Abadie, a neurologist from Bordeaux (1873-). The sign is a loss of sensation to pressure in the Achilles tendon as seen in locomotor ataxia conditions.

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    abaissement

  • A lowering or a depressing (French)

  • Couching

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    abalienated

  • Mental derangement

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    abalienatio

  • Abalienation (Latin)

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    abalienatio mentis

  • Mental derangement (Latin)

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    abalienation

  • Mental derangement (Latin)

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    abaptiston

  • A trephine shaped to not penetrate the brain (Greek). Pleural = abaptista

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    abarognosis

  • Loss of sense of weight; also baragnosis.

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    abarthrosis

  • Diarthrosis (Latin)

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    abarticular

  • Distant or remote from a joint

  • Does not affect a joint

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    abarticulation

  • The dislocation of a joint

  • Diarthrosis

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    abasia

  • An inability to walk due to a defect in coordination


  • choreic abasia associated with chorea of the legs.

  • paralytic abasia associated with paralysis of leg musculature.

  • paroxysmal trepidant abasia associated with spastic stiffening of the legs on attempting to stand or spastic abasia

  • trembling abasia or abasia trepidans associated with trembling of the legs

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    abasia astasia

  • Also astasia-abasia

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    abasia atactica

  • Abasia charcterized by an uncertainty of movement.

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    abasic

  • Pertains to abasia

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    abasin

  • Proprietary name for acetylbromdiethylacetylcarbamide and has a sedative effect.

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    abatardissement

  • The deterioration of a race or breed. (French)

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    abate

  • A decrease or lessening

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    abatement

  • A lessening or decrease in the severity of a symptom or sign (eg pain or swelling).

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    abatic

  • Abasic

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    abaxial

  • Not situated in the axis of the body or of a certain organ or body part. (Derived from Latin)

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    abaxile

  • Abaxial


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