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Diaphragmatic pacing
See: Diaphragm pacing
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Show more- Hematemesis The medical term for bloody vomitus. The word 'hematemesis' is made up of 'hema-', blood + 'emesis', vomit =…
- Headache, febrile A headache associated with fever. Because this can sometimes indicate inflammation of the brain, as in…
- Reed-Sternberg cell A type of cell that appears in patients with Hodgkin's disease. The number of these cells increases as the…
- APC (medication) Aspirin, phenacetin, and caffeine (a pill containing all three)
- Herpes zoster Also called shingles, zona, and zoster. The culprit is the varicella-zoster virus. Primary infection with…
- Acquired deafness Deafness: The loss of hearing that occurs or develops some time during a person's life but was not present at…
- Exercise, passive Movement of the body, usually of the limbs, without effort by the patient. The patient is passive
- Oligospermia Fewer sperm than normal. Azoospermia, by contrast, means absolutely no sperm at all.
- Pathologic 1. Indicative of or caused by disease, as in a pathologic fracture, pathologic tissue, or pathologic process…
- Bursal Pertaining to a bursa
- Acute phase protein See: Acute-phase protein
- Foreskin The fold of skin which covers the head (the glans) of the penis. Also called the prepuce. Only about 1 in…