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Therapy, respiratory
Exercises and treatments designed to help patients maintain and recover lung function, such as with cystic fibrosis and after surgery
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Show more- Disease, chronic obstructive lung (COLD) Any disorder that persistently obstructs bronchial airflow. COLD mainly involves two related diseases --…
- Posteroanterior (PA) In anatomy, posteroanterior (PA) means from back-to-front. For example, a PA X-ray of the chest is taken from…
- Lineage, cell See: Cell lineage
- Ritter disease This is the scalded skin syndrome, a potentially serious side effect of infection with the Staph…
- Myalgia, epidemic Also known as Bornholm disease, this is a temporary illness that is a result of virus infection. The disease…
- Hemorrhagic Pertaining to bleeding or the abnormal flow of blood. The patient may have an internal hemorrhagic problem…
- Calipers A metal or plastic tool similar to a compass used to measure the diameter of an object. The skin fold…
- Antineoplastic Acting to prevent, inhibit or halt the development of a neoplasm (a tumor). An agent with antineoplastic…
- Fireworks injury An injury from a device for producing a striking display by the combustion of explosive or flammable…
- Microvascular surgery Surgery on very small blood vessels such as those only 3 to 5 millimeters in diameter. Microvascular surgery…
- Ames test A test developed in 1974 by Bruce N. Ames for identifying possible carcinogens by studying their mutagenic…
- Five-day fever Fever: Also called trench fever, this is a disease borne by body lice that was first recognized in the…