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What does AV stand for?

Arteriovenous


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Animal-Vegetable
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Aperture Value
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Architecture Verification
ArcView (ESRI software)
Armored Vehicle
Artificial Vagina
Artificial Vision
Asociación de Vecinos (Spanish: Neighbors Association)
Assault Vertical
Assessable Value
Assessed Value
Asset Value
Asset Visibility
Assurance Vieillesse (French: Pension Insurance)
Atrioventricular

Samples in periodicals archive:
Proceeds will go the church's Sunday school program and to a charity to support research on AVM, arteriovenous malformation, the arterial defect that killed Jared.
Very often, artery-vein access grafts, called arteriovenous (AV) grafts, fail due to narrowing of blood vessels (stenosis) at the graft site and subsequent clotting, which block the flow of blood.
Generally speaking, KTS is a congenital circulatory disorder characterized by hemangiomas, arteriovenous abscesses, and varicose veins, mainly on the limbs.
[FIGURE 1 OMITTED] [FIGURE 2 OMITTED] Single coronary artery is a rare abnormality in coronary circulation and is associated with other congenital cardiac malformations such as bicuspid aorta, transposition of the great vessels and coronary arteriovenous fistulae.
They now say the bleeding source was an arteriovenous malformation, a tangle of small blood vessels in the lining of the colon.
Risk is highest for catheters, intermediate for grafts, and lowest for native arteriovenous fistulas.
Johnson was diagnosed with arteriovenous malformation, or AVM, a condition that causes the arteries and veins to grow abnormally large, become tangled and sometimes burst.
The MRA revealed a dural arteriovenous fistula (AVF) between the left middle meningeal artery and a cortical vein with retrograde drainage into Labbe's vein (Figure 2).

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