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For example, a pregnant female who carried one pregnancy to term with a surviving infant; carried one pregnancy to 35 weeks with surviving twins; carried one pregnancy to 9 weeks as an ectopic (tubal) pregnancy; and has three living children would have a TPAL annotation of T1, P1, A1, L3. This could also be written as 1-1-1-3.
S 2: second heart sound: S 3: third heart sound S 4: fourth heart sound S&O: salpingo-oophorectomy Sb: Scholar batch SAAG: serum–ascites albumin gradient SAB: staphylococcal bacteremia spontaneous abortion (that is, miscarriage) SAD: seasonal affective disorder subacromial decompression: SAH: subarachnoid hemorrhage: SAM: systolic anterior ...
The study surrounding the birth has been chronicled in the Hong Kong Medical Journal. The roughly 9-pound infant was born with a condition known as fetus in fetu.
645 Prolonged pregnancy. 645.1 Post term pregnancy; 645.2 Prolonged pregnancy; 646 Other complications of pregnancy, not elsewhere classified 646.0 Papyraceous fetus; 646.1 Edema or excessive weight gain in pregnancy without mention of hypertension; 646.2 Unspecified renal disease in pregnancy without mention of hypertension; 646.3 Habitual ...
Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is the development of a bacterial infection in the peritoneum, despite the absence of an obvious source for the infection. [1] It is specifically an infection of the ascitic fluid – an increased volume of peritoneal fluid. [2] Ascites is most commonly a complication of cirrhosis of the liver. [1]
Capillary blood glucose (British medical colloquialism originating from Boehringer Mannheim, a manufacturer of early glucose meters, today a part of Boehringer Ingelheim.) BMBx: Bone marrow biopsy: BMC: bone mineral content: BMD: bone mineral density (also termed bone mass measurement) BMI: body mass index: BMP: basic metabolic panel: BMR ...
[1] [2] The term superfecundation is derived from fecund, meaning able to produce offspring. Homopaternal superfecundation is fertilization of two separate ova from the same father, leading to fraternal twins , [ 3 ] while heteropaternal superfecundation is a form of atypical twinning where, genetically, the twins are half siblings – sharing ...
A term most applicable to vertebrate species, multiple births occur in most kinds of mammals, with varying frequencies. Such births are often named according to the number of offspring, as in twins and triplets. In non-humans, the whole group may also be referred to as a litter, and multiple births may be more common than single births ...