The abbreviation RBC means: a) Random blood count. b) Rare blood cancer. c) Red blood cell. d) Reduced blood content. Blood: Blood is a type of connective tissue. It is pumped around the body by the heart through vein and artery systems. ...
Twitter Google Share on Facebook PCV Also found in:Thesaurus,Medical,Financial,Acronyms,Encyclopedia,Wikipedia. PCV (in Britain)abbreviation for passenger carrying vehicle Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003,...
Also called: consumption or phthisis Abbreviation: TB [C19: from New Latin; see tubercle, -osis] Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014 tu•ber•cu•lo•sis (...
Adjusted factors included age, sex, systolic blood pressure, BMI, waist, diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, drinking, smoking, white blood cells, platelet, creatinine, hematocrit, hemoglobin, glycated hemoglobin, HDL, LDL, total cholesterol, and vigorous physical activity. Abbreviation: TGI, ...
The sexual dimorphisms thought to pri- marily contribute to differences in human performance in- clude smaller anatomical size of the lung, muscle, bones, and heart; lower levels of hemoglobin and hematocrit (oxygen carrying capacity); lower proportions of lean muscle mass; and lower androgen ...
(Pediatr Res 19: 159-161, 1985) Abbreviation CBF, cerebral blood flow In adult animals (3, 5, 13) and man (1, 9, lo), autoregulation of CBF has been shown to be an important adaptive mechanism whereby blood flow to the brain is maintained nearly constant over a wide range of ...
HFpEF = heart failure with preserved ejection fraction; other abbreviation as in Figure 1. Future Trends and Conclusions Myocardial stiffness is an important pathophysiological mechanism in various cardiac diseases. Currently, 2D and 3D high-frequency magnetic resonance elastography techniques have been ...
Abbreviation: SD, standard deviation. Malaria diagnosis was made using the QBC malaria test. Fifty-five microliters of blood is taken in a QBC™ tube coated with Acridine orange (AO) fluorescent dye and centrifuged for five minutes. The parasites in a QBC tube, when viewed with the Para...
(mmol lÀ1) HbA1c (%) Total cholesterol (mmol lÀ1) HDL cholesterol (mmol lÀ1) Triglyceride (mmol lÀ1) Creatinine (mmol lÀ1) Uric acid (mmol lÀ1) Silent brain infarction (%) Deep white matter lesions (%) Periventricular hyperintensities (%) Abbreviation: NS, not significant...
(running 425 miles or exercising 410 h in any 1 week) within the last 3 months, active substance abuse, smoking, a history of cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, or gastrointestinal tract surgery, hematocrit below the normal range, untreated thyroid disease, and contraindication for MRI. Pr...