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Oriental medicine (traditional)
His is a sophisticated form of medicine that is comprised of many systematic techniques and methods, including acupuncture, herbal medicine, acupressure, qi gong, and oriental massage. The most striking characteristic of oriental medicine…
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- Curable Amenable to a cure, capable of being cured, to being healed and made well. Most skin cancers, fortunately…
- Familial Parkinson disease type 1 A familial form of Parkinson disease inherited in an autosomal dominant manner due to mutation in the…
- Analytic sensitivity The lowest level of a substance that can be detected by an analytic method
- Magnesia Named after a town in present day Turkey where an ore containing magnesium carbonate was mined. Milk of…
- Polyphenol A kind of chemical that (at least in theory) may protect against some common health problems and possibly…
- Molluscum contagiosum A contagious disease of the skin marked by the occurrence of rounded soft tumors of the skin caused by the…
- Vitrectomy Removal of the gel (called the vitreous) from within the eyeball. This may be done because it has blood and…
- Acetylcysteine An antioxidant drug used to reduce the thickness of mucus and ease its removal. It is also used to reverse…
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