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Alternative medicine
Alternative medicine: Healing arts not taught in traditional Western medical schools that promote options to conventional medicine that is taught in these schools.. An example of an alternative therapy is using a special diet to treat…
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Show more- Phalanx Anatomically, any one of the bones in the fingers or toes. (Plural: phalanges.) There are 3 phalanges (the…
- Virus, attenuated To attenuate is to weaken or to make (or become) thin. The word derives from a combination of the Latin…
- Base-excision repair See: Base excision repair
- Amyl- (Amylo- before a consonant.) A prefix pertaining to starch. From the Greek amylon, meaning starch
- Intestinal pseudo-obstruction Symptoms of intestinal obstruction with no sign of actual physical obstruction. This condition may be due to…
- Total knee replacement Total knee replacement: A surgical procedure in which damaged parts of the knee joint are replaced with…
- Guthrie test A simple screening blood test for phenylketonuria (PKU). The Guthrie test was the original impetus to newborn…
- Tricyclic antidepressant One of a class of medications used to treat depression. The tricyclic antidepressants are also used for some…
- Pharmacologist A specialist in the study of medications and their effects on the body
- Blastocystis infection See: Blastocystosis
- Tympanic membrane Just the ear drum
- Attenuate To weaken, dilute, thin, reduce, weaken, diminish. The use of 'attenuate' in medicine is not new. In the 16th…