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Medical vocabulary with 16,436 clear, complete and reliable definitions.
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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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Generic name, drug
>The chemical name of a drug. >A term referring to the chemical makeup of a drug rather than to the advertised brand name under which the drug is sold. >A term referring to any drug marketed under its chemical name without advertising…
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Show more- Disease, hand-foot-and-mouth A viral syndrome with a rash on the hands and feet and in the mouth. The internal rash (the enanthem)…
- Chlorinated camphene See: Toxaphene
- Alopecia areata Alopecia areata: A patchy baldness which typically begins with patchy hair loss on the scalp and sometimes…
- Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma See: Adult T-cell leukemia
- Hair-on-end skull Thin fine linear extensions radiating out from the skull that look on an X-ray like hair standing 'on-end'…
- Lingual 1. Having to do with the tongue. 2. Next to the tongue. In dentistry, the tooth surface next to the tongue…
- Enterostomal therapist A health care specialist trained to help patients care for and adjust to their colostomy.
- Hoarding, pathological Hoarseness is a term referring to abnormal voice changes. Hoarseness may be manifested as a voice that sounds…
- Interferon Interferon: A naturally occurring substance that interferes with the ability of viruses to reproduce…
- Physiologic Something that is normal, neither due to anything pathologic nor significant in terms of causing illness
- Lipoidosis, sphingomyelin Also called Niemann-Pick disease, this is a disorder of the metabolism of a lipid (fat) called sphingomyelin…
- Paediatrics Pediatrics in Great Britain.