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Standard of care
1. A diagnostic and treatment process that a clinician should follow for a certain type of patient, illness, or clinical circumstance. Adjuvant chemotherapy for lung cancer is 'a new standard of care, but not necessarily the only standard…
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- Lateral meniscus of the knee The word 'meniscus' refers to a crescent-shaped structure. The lateral meniscus of the knee is a thickened…
- Pill splitter A device for tablet splitting
- Acral-lentiginous melanoma See: Melanoma, acral-lentiginous
- Functional genomics The function of each gene in the genome. Functional genomics is the study of genes, their resulting proteins…
- Alpha-ET Street name for alpha-ethyltryptamine
- Sabin 1. Sabin, Albert.2. Sabin, Florence R.
- Somnambulism A sleepwalker.
- Dursban An insecticide that has adverse neurological effects. Known alternatively as chlorpyrifos. Dursban causes…
- Antidiabetic agent A substance that helps a person with diabetes control their level of glucose (sugar) in the blood…
- Diplopia, binocular Double vision (diplopia) that is only evident when looking through both eyes and disappears if one eye is…
- Artery disease, coronary See: Coronary artery disease