Printer friendly
New search features  |  Acronym Blog
Google Toolbar button
Add to Google Home Page
Add Acronym Finder search to IE7
Free tools

Acronym Finder logo: click for home page
abbreviation to define
  

Examples: NFL, NASA, PSP, HIPAA, random
Word(s) in meaning: chat  "global warming"
Postal codes: USA: 81657, Canada: T5A 0A7

Save this page to del.icio.us  Save this page to Yahoo  Stumble It!  Digg this!  submit to Reddit  post to Facebook  add to Google Personal Home Page  add to your favorites/bookmarks

What does FOU stand for?

Fever of Unknown Origin (medicine)


Suggest new definition

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

  • Science, medicine, engineering, etc.

See other meanings of FOU

Other Resources:

Link/Page Citation...

<< PreviousAbbreviation Database SurferNext >>
Fail of the Year (gaming)
Family of the Year (band)
Father of the Year
Fight of the Year (boxing)
Fireslayer of the Year (award)
Footballer of the Year (video game)
Freshman of the Year
Friends of the Topeka Zoo (Kansas)
Fan Out Unit (Cisco)
Fate of Unwanted (gaming clan)
Field of Use
Field Operation Unit
For Official Use
For Our Utopia (gaming clan)
Forskning och Utveckling (Swedish: Research and Development)
Forskning og Utviklingsarbeid (Norweigan: Research and Development)
Frequency of Use (keyboard layout)
First-Order Uncertainty Analysis
Friends of University Airport (University of California, Davis)
Feast of Unleavened Bread



Samples in periodicals archive:
Discovery of a novel human picornavirus in a stool sample from a pediatric patient presenting with fever of unknown origin.
10) PET can be useful in determining the causes of fever of unknown origin, often pointing to bowel pathologies such as infectious or inflammatory colitis.
Some of the symptoms are: Weakness or chronic fatigue, Fever of unknown origin, Weight loss that is not due to dieting or exercise, Frequent bacterial or viral infections, Headaches, Skin rash, Non-specific bone pain, Easy bruising, Bleeding from gums or nose, Blood in urine or stools, Enlarged lymph nodes and/or spleen, and Abdominal fullness.
The same is true with coughing of more than two weeks, wasting, fever of unknown origin, lymphadenopathy, again to mention a few.
Pediatricians should consider tuberculosis (TB) in their evaluation of children who develop fever of unknown origin after liver transplantation, according to a UK pediatric transplant team.
Recently, a novel cardiovirus, Saffold virus (SAFV; genus Theilovirus), was reported in association with fever of unknown origin in a child 8 months of age (13) and in children with symptoms of respiratory or gastrointestinal illness (14-16).
Some of the symptoms are: Weakness or chronic fatigue, Fever of unknown origin, Weight loss that is not due to dieting or exercise, Frequent bacterial or viral infections, Headaches, Skin rash, Nonspecific bone pain, Easy bruising, Bleeding from gums or nose, Blood in urine or stools, Enlarged lymph nodes and/or spleen, and Abdominal fullness.
Its manifestations can include self-limited regional lymphadenopathy, fever of unknown origin, and visceral organ, neurologic, and ocular involvement.

Home  |  Help  |  About  |  What's New?  |  Suggest new acronym  |  Link to Us  |  Search Tools  |  Press
State Abbreviations  |  Partners  |  Contributors  |  Return Links  |  Statistics  |  Fun Buzzword Acronyms!  |  Read the AF Blog

All trademarks/service marks referenced on this site are properties of their respective owners.
The Acronym Finder is ©1988-2013, Acronym Finder, All Rights Reserved.  Feedback
Terms of usage   |  Licensing info  |  Advertising info  |  Privacy Policy  |  Site Map