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TPN
Total parenteral nutrition, intravenous feeding that provides a patient with all of the fluid and the essential nutrients when they are unable to feed themselves by mouth
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- Biosafety level A specific combination of work practices, safety equipment, and facilities which are designed to minimize the…
- Colorblindness The inability to perceive colors in a normal fashion. The most common forms of colorblindness are inherited…
- Pulmonary syndrome, Hantavirus Exercises and treatments designed to help patients maintain and recover lung function, such as with cystic…
- C-section Short for Caesarian section, a procedure in which a baby, rather than being born vaginally, is surgically…
- LAC encephalitis LaCrosse encephalitis, one of the main types of encephalitis caused by an arbovirus in the US. An arbovirus…
- Developmental dislocation of the hip (DDH) The abnormal formation of the hip joint in which the ball at the top of the thighbone (the femoral head) is…
- Porencephaly A disorder of the central nervous system involving a cyst or cavity in a cerebral hemisphere of the brain…