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Treatment given to prevent, control, or relieve complications and side effects and to improve the patient's comfort and quality of life
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- INR Stings from large stinging insects such as bees, hornets, yellow jackets and wasps can trigger allergic…
- Cranial nerve III The third cranial nerve is the oculomotor nerve. The cranial nerves emerge from or enter the skull (the…
- Imbricate Overlapping like shingles or tiles on a roof. The scales on a snake are imbricate. From the Latin imbricatus…
- Histiocytosis A rare but potentially deadly disorder with similarities to cancer, in which histiocytes start to multiply…
- Atlas and axis joint The joint between the atlas and axis bones. The atlas is the first cervical (neck) vertebra which is just…
- Brace, Milwaukee One of the two main types of braces used to treat the lateral curve of the spine in scoliosis. This brace can…
- Soothing Bringing comfort, solace, reassurance, peace, composure, quietude. To soothe is to allay, balm, becalm, calm…
- Replication, DNA A wondrous complex process whereby the ('parent') strands of DNA in the double helix are separated and each…
- Aneurysm, saccular An aneurysm is a localized widening (dilatation) of an artery, vein, or the heart. At the area of an…
- Marriage, cousin A form of consanguinity. Everyone carries recessive alleles, genes that are generally innocuous in the…