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Code black
While there is no formal definition for a 'Code,' doctors often use the term as slang to refer to a patient in cardiopulmonary arrest , requiring a team of providers (sometimes called a 'code team') to rush to the specific location and…
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Show more- Transcranial Through the cranium. As, for example, in transcranial magnetic stimulation
- Ambulatory Able to ambulate, to walk about, not bed-ridden or hospitalized
- Colon cancer risk See: Colon cancer family history
- Electroshock therapy See Electroconvulsive therapy
- Virus, human immunodeficiency (HIV) The cause of AIDS. HIV has also been called the human lymphotropic virus type III, the lymphadenopathy-…
- CNS (central nervous system) That part of the nervous system that consists of the brain and spinal cord. The central nervous system (CNS)…
- Infant, postmature A baby born 2 weeks (14 days) or more after the usual 9 months (280 days) of gestation. The gestation (length…
- Black plague In 14th-century Europe, the victims of the 'black plague' had bleeding below the skin (subcutaneous…
- D & C Dilatation and curettage, a minor operation in which the cervix is expanded enough (dilatation) to permit the…
- Click-murmur syndrome Mitral valve prolapse (also known as 'Barlow's syndrome'), the most common heart valve abnormality, affecting…
- Schizotypal personality disorder A type of personality characterized by unusual patterns of speech and behavior and by social withdrawal. See…
- Tocus Labor, childbirth. Directly from the Greek 'tokos' meaning childbirth