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Postoperative
After surgery. As opposed to preoperative, before surgery
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Show more- Psychopathic personality disorder See: Antisocial personality disorder
- Sidney Goldring See: Goldring, Sidney
- Pancytopenia A shortage of all types of blood cells, including red and white blood cells as well as platelets.
- Esophageal reflux A condition wherein stomach contents regurgitate or back up (reflux) into the esophagus (a long cylindrical…
- Prusiner See: Prusiner, Stanley B.
- Periodic fever Recurrences of fever that last from a few days to a few weeks and are separated by symptom-free intervals of…
- Compression, nerve See: Nerve compression
- Flu, bird See: Avian influenza
- MDMA Abbreviation for 3-4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine. See: Ecstasy
- Sleep, rapid eye movement Sleep, rapid eye movement: REM sleep is the portion of sleep when there are rapid eye movements (REMs)…
- Jenner's method The production of immunity to a disease by inoculation of an attenuated form of the virus causing the…
- Refractory Not yielding (at least not yielding readily) to treatment