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United States Pharmacopeia
Abbreviated USP. A publication, established in 1820, that contains legally recognized standards of identity, strength, quality, purity, packaging, and labeling for drug substances, dosage forms, and other therapeutic products, including…
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- Nail grooves See: Beau's lines
- Induced abortion An abortion that is brought about intentionally. Also called an artificial or therapeutic abortion. As…
- Rothmund-Thomson syndrome To go around and see a patient in a hospital or other in-patient setting.
- Spinocerebellar Pertaining to the spinal cord and the cerebellum, as in spinocerebellar ataxia (ataxia with cerebellar…
- Differentiated cancer Cancer: A cancer in which the cells are mature and look like cells in the tissue from it arose…
- Periodic abstinence Also known as fertility awareness, natural family planning, and the rhythm method, this approach entails not…
- Keratoma An area of hardened skin, usually called a callus
- Superbug An informal term for a bacterium that has become resistant to antibiotics usually used to treat it, as…
- Yeast genome All of the genetic information contained in yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae). The genomes of particular…
- Deficiency, alpha-galactosidase A See: Fabry disease
- Acute bacterial prostatitis Prostatitis: Inflammation of the prostate gland of sudden (acute) onset due to bacterial infection. The…