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Pulmonary therapy
Exercises and treatments designed to help patients maintain and recover lung function, such as with cystic fibrosis and after surgery
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- Actinomycetes A group of gram-positive bacteria (order Actinomycetales) that produce various bioactive agents including…
- Phrenic pacing See: Diaphragm pacing
- Midwife, empirical See: Empirical midwife.
- Anal fistula An opening in the skin near the anus that leads into a blind pouch or may connect through a tunnel with the…
- Vincent angina This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…
- Ectodermal Pertaining to the ectoderm or to tissues derived from the ectoderm, one of the three primary germ cell layers…
- Sjogren of Sjogren syndrome Sjogren syndrome: Henrik Samuel Conrad Sjögren, Swedish ophthalmologist (1899-1986), who described the sicca…
- Drosophila genome All of the genetic information contained in Drosophila, the fruitfly. The genomes of particular nonhuman…
- JPC Juvenile polyposis coli. See: Juvenile polyposis
- SLV Sapporo-like virus. See: Sapovirus
- Cavities Cavities: Holes in the two outer layers of a tooth called the enamel and the dentin. The enamel is the…