See Also: Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Quick asset ratio or acid test ratio(finance)
Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital- Medicine Lodge(health)
Q ratio or Tobin's Q ratio(finance)
Orthomolecular medicine (orthomolecular nutritional medicine, orthomolecular therapy)(health)
Short ratio (or short interest ratio)(finance)
Medicine(medicine)
medicine(1)(dictionary)
medicine(2)(dictionary)
medicine man(dictionary)

Horizontal (medicine) and M-E ratio (medicine)


Horizontal (medicine)


horizontal


1. Pertaining to, or near, the horizon. "Horizontal misty air."

2. Parallel to the horizon; on a level; as, a horizontalline or surface.

3. Measured or contained in a plane of the horizon; as, horizontal distance. Horizontal drill, a drilling machine having a horizontal drill spindle. Horizontal engine, one the piston of which works horizontally. Horizontal fire, the fire of ordnance and small arms at point-blank range or at low angles of elevation.

<physics> Horizontal force, the distance in a horizontal plane to which a gun will throw a projectile. Horizontal water wheel, a water wheel in which the axis is vertical, the buckets or floats revolving in a horizontal plane, as in most turbines.

Origin: Cf. F. Horizontal.

Source: Websters Dictionary


M-E ratio (medicine)


M:E ratio


The ratio of myeloid to erythroid precursors in bone marrow; normally it varies from 2:1 to 4:1; an increased ratio is found in infections, chronic myelogenous leukaemia, or erythroid hypoplasia; a decreased ratio may mean a depression of leukopoiesis or normoblastic hyperplasia depending on the overall cellularity of the bone marrow.