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Aspirin
A good example of a tradename that entered into the language, Aspirin was once the Bayer trademark for acetylsalicylic acid. The first use of what became known as aspirin was by the Greek physician Hippocrates, who used powder extracted…
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Show more- B. burgdorferi Short for Borrelia burgdorferi, the cause of Lyme disease. Once the full name of a bacterium has been given…
- Narcan Brand name for naloxone
- H and P In common doctor language, H stands for history and P for physical. So H and P = the history and physical…
- Taenia In medicine, taenia is a genus (group) of large tapeworms some of which are parasitic in humans. In anatomy…
- Vision, tubular See: Tubular vision; Tunnel vision
- Ocular melanoma See: Melanoma, ocular
- Neuropathy, hypoglossal See: Hypoglossal neuropathy
- Off-pump Not on the pump, usually meaning not on the heart-lung machine. See also: Off-pump surgery
- Antipsychotic A medication (or another measure) that is believed to be effective in the treatment of psychosis. For…
- Chicken genome The genome of the Red Jungle Fowl, Gallus gallus, the ancestor of domestic chickens, comprising about 1…
- Hypoplasia of the thymus and parathyroids See: DiGeorge syndrome
- Miasmic Pertaining to a miasma, a poisonous vapor or mist that was once widely believed to be made up of particles…