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VES (Voluntary Euthanasia Society)
The first society of its kind in the world -- its founders included doctors, lawyers and churchmen -- the VES was set up in England in 1935. The announced aim of the VES is to make it legal for a competent adult suffering unbearably from…
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Show more- Bright's disease Chronic inflammation of the blood vessels in the kidney with protein, specifically albumin, in the urine…
- Homosexual A person sexually attracted to persons of the same sex. Homosexuals include males (gays) and females…
- Kidney One of a pair of organs located in the right and left side of the abdomen which clear 'poisons' from the…
- Idiopathic scoliosis A "wastepaper basket" for those cases of immune thrombocytopenic purpura whose cause is still unknown. See…
- Corticosteroid allergy A delayed allergic reaction to corticosteroid (drugs similar to cortisone). This occurs in 1-4% of people who…
- Bowel disease, inflammatory A group of chronic intestinal diseases characterized by inflammation of the bowel -- the large or small…
- Pasteur, Louis French chemist and biologist (1822-1895) who invented pasteurization, developed the germ theory, founded the…
- Turbinectomy Removal of a turbinate bone. The turbinate is a bone in the nose; it is an extension of the ethmoid bone, is…
- Single transverse palmar crease Preferable term for what historically was called a simian crease. See: Simian crease
- Breast cancer susceptibility genes Inherited factors that predispose to breast cancer. Put otherwise, these genes make one more susceptible to…
- AFO (ankle-foot orthosis) Ankle-foot orthosis
- Pyelogram X-ray study of the kidney especially showing the pelvis (urine-collecting basin) of the kidney and the ureter.