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Ambulatory care
Medical care including diagnosis, observation, treatment and rehabilitation that is provided on an outpatient basis. Ambulatory care is given to persons who are able to ambulate or walk about. A well-baby visit is considered ambulatory…
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- Dyad The word 'dyad' comes from the Greek 'dyas' meaning the number two. In psychology, a dyad refers to a pair of…
- Autonomy, patient The right of patients to make decisions about their medical care without their health care provider trying to…
- FluMist FluMist™. See: Nasal flu vaccine
- Genetic anticipation A remarkable phenomenon in which a genetic disease appears earlier appearance and with increased from with…
- Nerve palsy, laryngeal Paralysis of the recurrent laryngeal nerve, a branch of the vagus nerve (a long and important nerve that…
- Ear, low-set A minor anomaly involving an ear situated down below its normal location. Technically, the ear is low-set…
- Base sequence analysis A method for determining the order of nucleotide bases in DNA
- Motor neurone disease Motor neuron disease. 'His suffering from motor neurone disease (MND) was finally over because he had chosen…
- Child Health and . . . (NICHD) National Institute of (NICHD): One of the US National Institutes of Health, NICHD is in a sense the NIH for…
- Colinear Arranged in the same linear order. See: Colinearity
- Fever, typhoid See: Typhoid fever