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The most complete online medical dictionary: 16,436 terms covering anatomy, physiology, pathologies, diagnostic exams, pharmacology and every clinical specialty.
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Prescription abbreviations
A prescription, as is well known, is a physician's order for the preparation and administration of a drug or device for a patient. What may be less well known is that a prescription has several parts: > >The superscription (or heading)…
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- MCH Abbreviation for mean cell hemoglobin concentration, which is the average concentration of hemoglobin in a…
- Infertile Not able to conceive after a year of regular intercourse without contraception. Infertility can be due to…
- Infection, meningococcal See: Meningococcal infection
- Kidney transplant Replacement of a diseased, damaged, or missing kidney with a donor kidney. Also called a renal transplant…
- Bioinformatics The sum of the computational approaches to analyze, manage, and store biological data. Bioinformatics…
- Vesicoenteric Pertaining to both the urinary bladder and intestine or to a communication between them, as in a…
- Ring vaccination The vaccination of all susceptible individuals in a prescribed area around an outbreak of an infectious…
- Mutilating keratoderma See: Vohwinkel syndrome
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- Disease, Marburg Despite its seeming lack of gender, this term is applied to women only. PID refers exclusively to ascending…
- Lipoidosis, sphingomyelin Also called Niemann-Pick disease, this is a disorder of the metabolism of a lipid (fat) called sphingomyelin…