commonly

  • 81Cystine transport disease — Commonly known as cystinuria, this is an inherited (genetic) disorder of the transport of an amino acid (a building block of protein) called cystine resulting in an excess of cystine in the urine (cystinuria) and the formation of cystine stones.… …

    Medical dictionary

  • 82Disease, cystine transport — Commonly known as cystinuria, this is an inherited (genetic) disorder of the transport of an amino acid (a building block of protein) called cystine resulting in an excess of cystine in the urine (cystinuria) and the formation of cystine stones.… …

    Medical dictionary

  • 83Sepsis — Commonly called a "blood stream infection." The presence of bacteria (bacteremia) or other infectious organisms or their toxins in the blood (septicemia) or in other tissue of the body. Sepsis may be associated with clinical symptoms of …

    Medical dictionary

  • 84STS — Commonly used abbreviation for sequence tagged site. A short (200 to 500 base pair) DNA sequence that occurs but once in the genome and whose location and base sequence are known. STSs are detectable by polymerase chain reaction (PCR), are useful …

    Medical dictionary

  • 85Transport disease, cystine — Commonly known as cystinuria, this is an inherited (genetic) disorder of the transport of an amino acid (a building block of protein) called cystine. The result is an excess of cystine in the urine (cystinuria) and the formation of cystine stones …

    Medical dictionary

  • 86URI — Commonly used abbreviation for Upper Respiratory Infection, an infection in the respiratory tract shy of the lungs. (Do not confuse a URI with a UTI which stands for Urinary Tract Infection). A URI can be due to a large number of different viral… …

    Medical dictionary

  • 87WBC — Commonly used abbreviation for a white blood cell. WBC also stands for the white blood cell count which is the number of white blood cells in a volume of blood. Normal range varies slightly between laboratories but is generally between 4,300 and… …

    Medical dictionary

  • 88blotch — Commonly used term to denote a pigmented or erythematous lesion. * * * blotch bläch n a discolored patch on the skin <the face and neck were covered with large reddish blotches> blotch vt blotchy ē …

    Medical dictionary

  • 89genicular — Commonly used to mean genual. * * * adj. relating to the knee joint: applied to arteries that supply the knee. * * * ge·nic·u·lar (jə nikґu lər) pertaining to the knee …

    Medical dictionary

  • 90neuropraxia — Commonly used misspelling of neurapraxia. * * * neu·ro·prax·ia (noor″ə prakґse ə) neurapraxia …

    Medical dictionary