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Fee for service
): In health care, a payment mechanism in which a provider is paid for each individual service rendered to a patient
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- Fauces The throat. The word fauces is the plural of the Latin faux meaning a small passage.
- RWI Recreational water illness
- Rib, vertebral One of the last two ribs. A rib is said to be 'vertebral' if it does not attach to the sternum (the breast…
- Prinzmetal angina See: Angina, Prinzmetal
- Personality disorder A disorder characterized by the chronic use of mechanisms of coping in an inappropriate, stereotyped, and…
- Ramsay Hunt, James Pre-eminent 20th-century American neurologist (1872-1937) who described a number of important diseases…
- Dermatome (1) A localized area of skin that is has its sensation via a single nerve from a single nerve root of the…
- Thrombotic disease due to protein C deficiency Protein C is a protein in plasma that enters into the cascade of biochemical events leading to the formation…
- Trypanosoma cruzi The parasitic microorganism that causes Chagas disease. See: Chagas disease
- Oral glucose tolerance test A test to determine the body's ability to handle glucose . In the test, a person fasts overnight (at least 8…
- Chronic fatigue syndrome See: Chronic myelogenous leukemia.