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Aspartame
A man-made sweetener with almost no calories used in place of sugar. A diet program with aspartame and exercise gives better results than without this sweetener. People lose more weight and regain less weight. Aspartame is a compound of…
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- IBD (inflammatory bowel disease) A group of chronic intestinal diseases characterized by inflammation of the bowel -- the large or small…
- Humorism In medicine, humor refers to a fluid (or semifluid) substance. Thus, the aqueous humor is the fluid normally…
- John Hughlings Jackson See: Hughlings Jackson, John
- Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA. One of two types of molecules that encode genetic information. (The other is RNA. In humans DNA is the…
- Tumor marker, CEA Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) is a protein found in many types of cells but associated with tumors and the…
- Legg-Calve-Perthes disease A hip disorder in children due to interruption of the blood supply to the head of the femur (the ball in the…
- Seizure, centrencephalic See: Grand mal
- Anorectic 1. Pertaining to anorexia, lack of appetite.2. A drug or other agent that causes anorexia and so diminishes…
- Suicide prevention Diminishing the risk of suicide. It may not be possible to eliminate entirely the risk of suicide but it is…
- Colostomy bag A removable, disposable bag that attaches to the exterior opening of a colostomy (stoma) to permit sanitary…
- Dissection, axillary Surgery in which the axilla (the armpit) is opened -- to 'dissect' means to 'cut apart' -- in order to…