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Nurse practitioner
A registered nurse (RN) who has completed an advanced training program in a medical specialty such as pediatrics or internal medicine. Abbreviated NP. An NP may function as a primary direct provider of health care and prescribe…
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- Pregnancy, acute fatty liver The consumption of alcohol during pregnancy carries the danger of damaging the fetus and causing fetal…
- Clinical 1. Having to do with the examination and treatment of patients. 2. Applicable to patients. A laboratory test…
- Antidiuretic hormone (ADH) A relatively small (peptide) molecule that is released by the pituitary gland at the base of the brain after…
- Chromatin modelling See: Chromatin remodeling
- Medical physics The science of human health and radiation exposure. Medical physics, also called health physics, is devoted…
- Chronic daily headache See: Headache, chronic daily
- Pulmonary embolus A blood clot that has passed into and occluded the lung's pulmonary artery. An embolus causes an embolism. In…
- Skin Diseases, National Institute of... Is and Musculoskeletal and (NIAMS): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. As its somewhat…
- Syndactyly, Poland A unique pattern of one- sided malformations characterized by a defect of the chest (pectoralis) muscle on…
- Dislocation, congenital hip The abnormal formation of the hip joint in which the ball at the top of the thighbone (the femoral head) is…
- Piloerection Erection of the hair of the skin. Piloerection of the hair, for example, on the arm makes it 'stand on end.'…