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Hormone, parathormone
Hormone made by the parathyroid gland (behind the thyroid gland in the neck). Parathormone (pronounced para-thor-mone) is critical to calcium and phosphorus balance. Deficiency of parathormone results in abnormally low calcium in the blood…
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- Psychosis, ICU A disorder in which patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) or a similar hospital setting may experience…
- Round To go around and see a patient in a hospital or other in-patient setting
- Pinna The ear or, to be more precise, the part of the ear that projects like a little wing from the head. In Latin…
- Vaccine, live polio See: Polio vaccine, oral
- Exercise treadmill Exercise on a treadmill, a machine with a moving strip on which one walks without moving forward. A treadmill…
- ATP 1. Adenosine triphosphate. 2. Acute thrombocytopenic purpura
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- Fear of oneself An irrational fear of oneself, an intense self-fear that is groundless. Fear of oneself is termed…
- Disease, polycystic ovarian Scrub typhus, a mite-borne infectious disease caused by a microorganism, Rickettsia tsutsugamushi…