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Homeopathy
A system of therapy based on the concept that disease can be treated with drugs (in minute doses) thought capable of producing the same symptoms in healthy people as the disease itself. Homeopathy was invented by the German physician…
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Show more- Syndrome, Aarskog-Scott See: Aarskog-Scott syndrome
- HHV-8 Human herpesvirus 8, a herpesvirus that contributes to the development of Kaposi sarcoma, an otherwise rare…
- Named reporting In public health, named reporting is the reporting of infected persons by name to public health departments…
- Fari Amini Amini, Fariborz
- Achilles tendon A tough sinew that attaches the calf muscle to the back of the heel bone. The Achilles tendon is one of the…
- Carbuncles A skin abscess, a collection of pus that forms inside the body. Antibiotics are often not very helpful in…
- Hematopoietic Pertaining to hematopoiesis
- Necrobiosis See: Necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum
- Base, pressor A pressor base is a substance chemically classified as a base (or amine) that is capable of raising the blood…
- Cholescintigraphy Cholescintigraphy: A diagnostic test in which a two-dimensional picture of a radiation source in the biliary…
- Syndrome, battered child A disease in which children are physically abused. The battered child syndrome is a form of child abuse. Not…
- Exercise, isometric Exercise involving muscular contractions without movement of the involved parts of the body. Isometric…