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Therapy
The treatment of disease. Therapy is synonymous with treatment, as for example: > >Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is treatment that suppresses a retrovirus such as HIV. >Brachytherapy is treatment given by placing radioactive material…
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Show more- Prostheses More than one prosthesis. See: Prosthesis
- ACG2 Achondrogenesis type II
- Eye chart, Snellen's The familiar eye chart used to measure how well you see at various distances. Snellen's chart is imprinted…
- Traditional midwife A direct-entry midwife practicing within the confines of traditional folk medicine. Traditional midwives are…
- Mind That which thinks, reasons, perceives, wills, and feels. The mind now appears in no way separate from the…
- Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth (1926-2004) Swiss-born American psychiatrist whose work with and teching about terminally ill patients helped…
- Transmission, vertical Transmission of a disease-causing agent (a pathogen) vertically from mother directly to baby during the…
- Y chromosome infertility Male infertility with oligozoospermia (a subnormal number of sperm) or azoospermia (the absence of sperm)…
- Thyroiditis, autoimmune See: Hashimoto thyroiditis
- Urinary tract infection in children Infection of the kidney, ureter, bladder, or urethra in a child. About 3% of girls and 1% of boys have had a…
- Liminal In neurolgy, at the threshold of perception to a sensory stimulus. In other words, just barely perceptible to…
- Neuralgia, facial Severe pain, usually occurring in bursts, that emanates along the path of the trigeminal nerve. The…