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Cystic fibrosis (also known as CF or mucoviscidosis) is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder affecting most critically the lungs, and also the pancreas, liver, and intestine.
Chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome. CFS. Chronic fatigue syndrome. CGBD. Corticobasal ganglionic degeneration. CH. Cluster headache. CHARGE syndrome. Coloboma of the eye, heart defects, atresia of the nasal choanae, retarded growth & or development, genital abnormalities, ear abnormalities.
List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions. This is a list of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions, including hospital orders (the patient-directed part of which is referred to as sig codes). This list does not include abbreviations for pharmaceuticals or drug name suffixes such as CD, CR, ER, XT (See Time release technology ...
Description (notes) AC. Anterior chamber. fluid-filled space between the iris and the endothelium. AC 4/4. Grade 4 anterior chamber angle. open angle between cornea and iris. AC 3/4. Grade 3 anterior chamber angle.
Meaning c̅ (c with an overbar) with (from Latin cum) means with C: cytosine cervical vertebrae: C1: atlas – first cervical vertebra of the spine C2: axis – second cervical vertebra of the spine CA: carcinoma cancer: Ca: calcium carcinoma cancer: CAA: coronary artery aneurysm: c/b: complicated by: CABG: coronary artery bypass graft ...
Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator. Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is a membrane protein and anion channel in vertebrates that is encoded by the CFTR gene. [ 5 ][ 6 ] Geneticist Lap-Chee Tsui and his team identified the CFTR gene in 1989 as the gene linked with CF (cystic fibrosis).
Pronunciation follows convention outside the medical field, in which acronyms are generally pronounced as if they were a word (JAMA, SIDS), initialisms are generally pronounced as individual letters (DNA, SSRI), and abbreviations generally use the expansion (soln. = "solution", sup. = "superior").
Greek -μα (-ma), suffix added to verbs to form nouns indicating the result of a process or action; cf. English -tion: sarcoma, teratoma, mesothelioma: omphal(o)-of or pertaining to the navel, the umbilicus: Greek ὀμφαλός (omphalós), navel, belly-button omphalotomy: onco-tumor, bulk, volume Greek ὄγκος (ónkos) oncology-one ...