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PID (pelvic inflammatory disease)
Despite its seeming lack of gender, this term is applied to women only. PID refers exclusively to ascending infection of the female upper genital tract (the female structures above the cervix). PID is the most common and serious…
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- Frequency, urinary Urinating too often, at too frequent intervals, not due to an unusually large volume of urine, but rather to…
- Patient-activated cardiac event recorder A device that is implanted directly under the skin and is programmable with looping memory that records…
- DHA 1. Docosahexaenoic acid, an essential fatty acid, thought to be important to the development of infants…
- MST A multiple subpial transection (MST) is a procedure is used to help control seizures that begin in areas of…
- Beef tapeworm Taenia saginata, the most common of the big tapeworms that parasitizes people, contracted from infected raw…
- L Abbreviation for liter, a metric measure of capacity that, by definition, is equal to the volume of a…
- Fat, brown See: Brown fat
- Conotoxin A toxin made by cone snails (Conidae), also called cone shells, which are fish-eating snails that inhabit…
- Homeopathic medicine See: Homeopathy
- Peripheral nervous system ): That portion of the nervous system that is outside the brain and spinal cord. The peripheral nervous…
- Chordoma A form of bone cancer that usually starts in the lower spinal column