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The most complete online medical dictionary: 16,436 terms covering anatomy, physiology, pathologies, diagnostic exams, pharmacology and every clinical specialty.
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Medical scientist
A person who combines expertise in medicine and science. Medical scientists of note might, for example, include: Christian Boehmer Anfinsen, Jr., Oswald Theodore Avery, Julius Axelrod, Donald Fredrickson, Joshua Lederberg, Barbara…
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- Diaphragmatic pacing See: Diaphragm pacing
- Vaccination Injection of a killed microbe in order to stimulate the immune system against the microbe, thereby preventing…
- Apex From the Latin meaning summit, the apex is the tip of a pyramidal or rounded structure, like the lung or the…
- Fear of heat Thermophobia. An abnormally excessive and persistent fear of heat, including hot weather and hot objects…
- Menopause, surgical Menopause, surgical: Surgical menopause is, not unexpectedly, menopause induced by surgery. Surgical…
- Health physics The science of human health and radiation exposure. Health physics, also called medical physics, is devoted…
- Ethnography The study of specific human cultures. The branch of anthropology that deals with the scientific description…
- Porphyria cutanea tarda Literally, the late skin form of porphyria, a genetic photosensitive (light-sensitive) skin disease with…
- Siddha medicine An ancient system of medicine prevalent in South India. The word Siddha comes from the Tamil word for…
- PARK6 Familial Parkinson disease type 6