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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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Quality of life
An important consideration in medical care, quality of life refers to the patient's ability to enjoy normal life activities. Some medical treatments can seriously impair quality of life without providing appreciable benefit, while others…
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- Injury, hangman (Hangman's fracture) Injury to one of the two crescent-shaped cartilage pads between the two joints formed by the femur (the thigh…
- Failure, autonomic See: Autonomic failure
- Organs of reproduction, male >The male external genitalia -- the penis, the male urethra, and the scrotum; and >The male internal…
- CC chemokine receptor 5 See: CCR5
- Axelrod, Julius (1912- ) American pharmacologist and neuroscientist who shared the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…
- Intestine, large The tubelike organ that completes the process of digestion, receiving material from the small intestine. It…
- Hounsfield, Godfrey (1919-2004) British electrical engineer whose contributions to the creation of the computerized axial…
- Consanguinity Blood relationship because of common ancestry. Everyone carries rare recessive alleles, rare genes that are…
- Fever, shin bone Fever, shin bone: Called shin bone fever because it characteristically causes fever and pain in the legs…
- Pseudorubella Synonymous with Roseola infantum, a viral disease of infants sudden onset of high fever which lasts several…
- Trinucleotide A sequence of 3 base pairs; a triplet of bases. The gene code is made up of trinucleotides