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Radio frequency identification, a system for remotely storing and retrieving data. RFID tags can serve to identify and track medications
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Show more- Iliac Pertaining to the ilium.
- Preemie Short slang for a premature baby. A preterm infant. Also spelled premie.
- Water hammer pulse See: Pulse, water hammer
- Cramp, writer's A dystonia that affects the muscles of the hand and sometimes the forearm and only occurs during handwriting…
- OCP Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.
- Rubella vaccine A vaccine designed to prevent rubella, or German measles. German measles was once seen merely as a child's…
- Progressive supranuclear palsy Progressive supranuclear palsy: A neurologic disorder of unknown origin that gradually destroys cells in many…
- Syndrome, economy class The formation of blood clots in veins deep within the legs -- deep vein thrombosis -- occurring during (or…
- Thyroiditis, subacute Subacute Thyroiditis is an inflammation of the thyroid gland after a viral illness. NTER>
- Dysmorphic feature A body characteristic that is abnormally formed. A malformed ear, for example, is a dysmorphic feature…
- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome AIDS. AIDS is a disease due to infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Also referred to as…
- Fracture, Salter-Harris A traumatic fracture around or through the growth plate (the epiphyseal plate) of a bone in a child