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Electroconvulsive therapy
Electroconvulsive therapy: A procedure in which an electric current is passed through the brain to produce controlled convulsions (seizures) to treat patients with depression, particularly for those who cannot take or are not responding to…
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Show more- Anticipatory grief The normal mourning that occurs when a patient or family is expecting a death. Anticipatory grief has many of…
- Infection, acute HIV The body's initial reaction to infection by the HIV virus. Acute HIV infection is a flu-like syndrome that…
- CVS 1. Chorionic villus sampling, a procedure for first-trimester prenatal diagnosis. 2. Cyclic vomiting…
- Distichiasis Double rows of eyelashes. The extra eyelashes grow from glands called the Meibomian glands and may protrude…
- Skin The skin is the body's outer covering. It protects us against heat and light, injury, and infection. It…
- Center for Devices & Radiological Health Abbreviated CDRH. Part of the FDA (the US Food & Drug Administration)
- Drug, over-the-counter (OTC) A drug for which a prescription is not needed
- Anaphylaxis Anaphylaxis: Allergic reaction. In severe cases, this can include potentially deadly anaphylactic shock.
- Otitis Inflammation of the ear. Depending upon which part of the ear is inflammed, there is otitis externa, otitis…
- Parotids Salivary glands situated in front of the ears.
- Aerosolization The production of an aerosol -- a fine mist or spray containing minute particles. See: Aerosol
- Caul Or cowl, a membrane, in obstetrics and cooking. In obstetrics, the caul is the amnion, one of the two fetal…