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- Disease, Tsutsugamushi Scrub typhus, a mite-borne infectious disease caused by a microorganism, Rickettsia tsutsugamushi…
- Grand rounds A formal meeting at which physicians discuss the clinical case of one or more patients. Grand rounds…
- Shock, anaphylactic A life-threatening allergic reaction characterized by a swelling of body tissues including the throat…
- Minor A minor is someone who is not yet an adult and, in a larger sense, it is something that is less than…
- Calculi The plural of calculus. (Calculi is the proper Latin plural. The alternate English plural is calculuses.
- Bariatrician A physician practicing bariatrics, the field of medicine concerned with weight loss. Also called a bariatric…
- Nerve block See: Neuron.
- Mentum Medical term for the chin. From Latin. See: Chin
- Immunology The study of all aspects of the immune system including its structure and function, disorders of the immune…
- Cowpox A mild skin disease of milk cows, principally confined to the udder and teats, that may be contracted by…