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Medical vocabulary with 16,436 clear, complete and reliable definitions.
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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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Code, emergency
While there is no formal definition for a 'Code,' doctors often use the term as slang to refer to a patient in cardiopulmonary arrest , requiring a team of providers (sometimes called a 'code team') to rush to the specific location and…
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Show more- Exotropia Divergent gaze. Also called external strabismus or, pejoratively, wall-eyed (like a walleyed pike).
- Health, child Child health is the purview of pediatrics. 'Pediatrics is concerned with the health of infants, children and…
- Garlic A perennial herb of the lily family cultivated for its pungent, edible bulbs. Garlic has been used with the…
- Hereditary essential tremor See: Essential tremor
- NPCR National Program of Cancer Registries
- Rickettsioses of the eastern hemisphere, tick-born There are 3 known diseases caused by infection with rickettsial agents. They are North Asian tick-borne…
- Upper GI series Upper GI series: A series of x-rays of the esophagus, stomach, and small intestine (upper gastrointestinal…
- Aldrin and dieldrin A type of still, an apparatus used in the process of distillation. Alembics were employed in chemistry and…
- Munchhausen syndrome by proxy A parenting disorder in which the parent either fabricates an illness or induces an illness in their child…
- Epidermoid carcinoma A type of lung cancer in which the cells are flat and look like fish scales. Also called squamous cell…
- Clinical 1. Having to do with the examination and treatment of patients. 2. Applicable to patients. A laboratory test…
- Balantidiasis The disease caused by infection with the protozoan parasite Balantidium