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Legal medicine
The branch of medicine that deals with the application of medical knowledge to legal problems and legal proceedings. Legal medicine is also called forensic medicine. A physician may be engaged in legal (or forensic) medicine while a lawyer…
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- Psychotherapy Psychotherapy: The treatment of a behavior disorder, mental illness, or any other condition by psychological…
- Syndrome, patellofemoral (PFS) The commonest cause of chronic knee pain, PFS characteristically causes vague discomfort of the inner knee…
- Endocardial Pertaining to the endocardium, the inside lining of the heart
- Jacksonian seizure A form of epilepsy involving brief alteration in movement, sensation or nerve function caused by abnormal…
- Pump-oxygenator A machine that does the work both of the heart (pump blood) and the lungs (oxygenate the blood). Used, for…
- Memory, short-term A system for temporarily storing and managing information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks such…
- Antiretroviral An agent or process effective against a retrovirus. For example, a drug to treat HIV
- Hemolysis The destruction of red blood cells which leads to the release of hemoglobin from within the red blood cells…
- Aspartic acid An amino acid, one of the 20 building blocks of protein. A amino acid that is not essential to the human…
- B(a)P Benzo(a)pyrene
- Nail dysgenesis and hypodontia A genetic disorder characterized by abnormalities of the nails (nail dysgenesis) and the absence of several…