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RDIs (Reference Daily Intakes)
Formerly known as hyaline membrane disease, a syndrome of respiratory difficulty in newborn infants caused by a deficiency of a molecule called surfactant. RDS almost always occurs in newborns born before 37 weeks of gestation. The more…
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Show more- Debride To remove dead, contaminated or adherent tissue or foreign material. The purpose of wound debridement is to…
- Foreskin The fold of skin which covers the head (the glans) of the penis. Also called the prepuce. Only about 1 in…
- Cubitus 1. The elbow.2. The forearm and hand.3. The ulna.From the Latin cubitus meaning elbow. The adjective is…
- Lysergic acid diethylamide Better known as LSD. (LSD is the abbreviation for the German name for the drug: Lysergsaure-Diathylamid.)…
- Naloxone A drug that antagonizes morphine and other opiates. Naloxone is a pure opiate antagonist and prevents or…
- Physician discontent Dissatisfaction with medical practice. Physician discontent increased substantially in the last quarter of…
- Syndrome, Kartagener's The trio of sinusitis, bronchitis and situs inversus (lateral reversal of the position all organs in the…
- Joint, ball-and-socket A ball-and-socket joint is one in which the round end of a bone fits into the cavity of another bone. The hip…
- Bone cyst, aneurysmal A benign lesion in a bone that contains connective tissue and blood inside a thin bony shell and that acts…
- Eosinophil A type of leukocyte (white blood cell) with coarse round granules of uniform size within its cytoplasm and…
- Immune response Any reaction by the immune system.
- Scoliosis, idiopathic A structurally normal spine that appears to have a lateral curve (scoliosis). Nonstructural scoliosis…