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Socialized medicine
A system of health care in which all health personnel and health facilities, including doctors and hospitals, work for the government and draw salaries from the government. Doctors in the US Veterans Administration and the Armed Services…
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- Olfactory disorder A loss in the ability to smell or a change in the way odors are perceived. Reduction of the sense of smell is…
- Visual contrast sensitivity The ability to perceive differences between an object and its background
- Exocrine gland A gland that secretes a substance out through a duct. The exocrine glands include the salivary glands, sweat…
- Vaccination, hepatitis B Hepatitis B: Hepatitis B (hep B) vaccine gives prolonged protection, but 3 shots over a half year are usually…
- Penicillin history The discovery of penicillin, one of the major events in the history of medicine. In 1871 the scientist Joseph…
- Asclepius One of the earliest Greek gods to specialize in healing. He was known to the Romans as Aesculapius. Healers…
- Labia, oral The lips around the mouth. See lip.
- Antisense In molecular biology, the strand complementary to a coding sequence of a nucleic acid. Antisense DNA is the…
- Linus Pauling See: Pauling, Linus
- Renal capsule The fibrous connective tissue that surrounds each kidney
- TORCH screen Screening test for a group of infections known by the acronym TORCH which stands for Toxoplasma gondii; other…