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Single-payer health care
A system of health care characterized by universal and comprehensive coverage. Single-payer health care is similar to the health services provided by Medicare in the US. The government pays for care that is delivered in the private (mostly…
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- Physician-assisted suicide Suicide: The voluntary termination of one's own life by administration of a lethal substance with the direct…
- Focal motor seizure A simple partial seizure with localized motor activity. There may be spasm or clonus (jerking) of one muscle…
- Loiasis The disease caused by the eye worm known as loa loa, a parasite that lives in humans and other primates…
- Bio- Prefix indicating living plants or creatures, as in biology, the study of living organisms
- Ear, external There are three sections of the ear. They are the external ear, the middle ear, and the inner ear. The…
- Coefficient of inbreeding A measure of how close two people are genetically to each another. The coefficient of inbreeding, symbolized…
- Lung cancer, oat cell See: Oat cell cancer
- Phenylketonuria, maternal See Maternal phenylketonuria
- Thigh The thigh extends from the hip to the knee. The thigh has only one bone, the femur which is the largest bone…
- Primary care provider In insurance parlance, a physician chosen by or assigned to a patient, who both provides primary care and…
- Eye retraction syndrome See: Duane syndrome