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Pharmacology
The study of drugs, their sources, their nature, and their properties. Pharmacology is the study of the body's reaction to drugs. It emerged as a major area in American medicine largely due to the efforts of John Jacob Abel (1857- 1938)…
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Show more- Q.d. (on prescription) Seen on a prescription, q.d. (or qd) means one a day (from the Latin quaque die). The abbreviation is…
- Precursor Forerunner. That which precedes or is derived from an available source. The term 'precursor' is applied to an…
- CCD (Central core disease of muscle) One of the conditions that produces 'floppy baby' syndrome. CCD causes hypotonia (floppiness) in the newborn…
- Exercise test A test (sometimes called the treadmill test or exercise treadmill test) in which a continuous…
- Randomized controlled trial (RCT) A study in which people are allocated at random (by chance alone) to receive one of several clinical…
- Urination, burning See: Dysuria
- Ductus, patent Failure for the ductus arteriosus, an arterial shunt in fetal life, to close on schedule. Before birth, blood…
- Trip-hammer pulse See: Pulse, water hammer
- Hepatocellular carcinoma A tumor in which the cancer starts during adulthood in cells in the liver. Also called adult primary liver…
- Horace Albert Barker See: Barker, Horace Albert
- Nosebleed Nosebleed: Its medical name is epistaxis.
- Muscle biopsy A minor surgical procedure done under local anesthetic using a needle or a small incision to remove a small…