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Emergency medical technician
A person trained in the performance of the procedures required in emergency medical care. You are most likely to find an EMT working with a mobile emergency response team, such as an ambulance or fire and rescue team. Some EMTs are…
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- Tinnitus Tinnitus: 'Ringing in the ears' or another noise that seems to originate in the ears or head. Tinnitus is due…
- Jackson Pratt drain See: JP drain
- Syphilitic 1. Relating to syphilis, caused by it, or suffering from it.2. A person with syphilis. From the French…
- Ventricular assist device A mechanical pump that takes over the function of the damaged ventricle of the heart and restores normal…
- Paul Ehrlich 1. Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915), renowned German scientist and physician. See: Ehlich, Paul. 2. Paul R. Ehrlich…
- Meconium ileus Obstruction of the intestine (ileus) due to overly thick meconium, the dark sticky stuff that is normally…
- Atherosclerotic Pertaining to atherosclerosis, the process of progressive thickening and hardening of the walls of arteries…
- Iron supplementation, infant Iron is included in most infant formulas. Therefore, there is no evidence that iron supplementation is…
- Chromosome inversion, pericentric A fragment of a chromosome (one of the microscopically visible carriers of the genetic material DNA) that is…
- Adjacent Lying nearby. Related terms include superjacent, subjacent, and circumjacent. From ad-, near + the Latin…
- Qualitative Having to do with quality. In contrast to quantitative (which pertains to quantity, the amount)