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Cuts
Severed skin. Washing a cut or scrape with soap and water and keeping it clean and dry is all that is required to care for most wounds. Putting alcohol hydrogen peroxide, and iodine into a wound can delay healing and should be avoided…
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Show more- Acute-phase protein Any protein whose plasma concentration increases (or decreases) by 25% or more during certain inflammatory…
- Pediatric rheumatologist See: Urinary tract infection in children.
- Cataract, supranuclear A cataract just above the center (the nucleus) of the lens. See: Cataract
- X-ray, AP An X-ray picture in which the beams pass from front-to-back (anteroposterior). An AP film is as opposed to a…
- Pacemaker Pacemaker: A system that sends electrical impulses to the heart in order to set the heart rhythm. The…
- Data Facts, statistics, and the like. In medicine and the health sciences, people often speak of 'the data'…
- Regulatory sequence A sequence of bases in DNA that controls gene expression
- Alexia A neurological disorder characterized by loss of the ability to read or understand the written word. Alexia…
- Immunization, hepatitis B Hepatitis B (hep B) vaccine gives prolonged protection, but 3 shots over a half year are usually required. In…
- Intravenous immunoglobulin A sterile solution of concentrated antibodies extracted from healthy people that is given straight into a…
- External genitalia, female See: Female external genitalia
- Human herpesvirus 3 See herpes zoster.