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ASH

American Society of Hematology.

ASH

Abbreviation for asymmetric septal hypertrophy.

Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

ASH

Abbreviation for:
abdominal supracervical hysterectomy
Action on Smoking and Health, see there (Medspeak-UK)
aldosterone-stimulating hormone
American Society of Hematology
asymmetrical septal hypertrophy

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(ash)

Nostrums made from the leaves and bark of the tree (Fraxinus excelsior) are alleged to have value in therapy of gastrointestinal disease; clinical tests are ongoing.

Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

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a forest tree of the genus Fraxinus with PINNATE leaves, thin, silver-grey bark with prominent LENTICELS, and close-grained wood.

Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005

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Since terrestrial auroras are intimately tied to Earth's magnetic field, it no longer seemed plausible that the ashen light --whatever it was--could be an auroral phenomenon.

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He had to escape the Ashen at all costs; his jumper was still on charge.

WILLIAM stood on all fours as steam rose from [...]; TREES

Observers can make a great contribution to our work by undertaking a regular Ashen Light patrol.

Venus in 2011-'12: third interim report

your ashen hair Sulamith he plays with the serpents

Death Fugue

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Don't stop me if you've heard this: A suburban mother is sitting in her living room, pale and ashen (her, not her living room--her living room is salmon with peach highlights).

These gay kids today!

Though our foreheads are marked with a black, ashen cross, Matthew warns us to practice our piety in secret.

Ash Wednesday February 25, 2004

Ambition and rage all faded from the air, the air subdued to a new sense of self, something intimate and sure about the way it whispers subtle truths neighbour to neighbour--or how its ashen luminescence slides inside things so they shed the cinder skin of what goes on day by day in daylight, and start breathing.

Full Moon

If I can't scare cash from the ashen crew, this monkey wrench has scratch to back my business." Mullen swaggeringly exits with "I'm making bird seed to stick in a hen's craw.

Sleeping with the Dictionary. (Reviews)

Administrators have told us of families commenting on how well residents look; they have some color in their cheeks, rather than that gray, ashen look.

Steps toward energy savings. (Feature Article)

One of fallen's most moving solos was Curtis slithering snakelike through this ashen material, turning his body into a ghostly image of itself.