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Medical vocabulary with 16,436 clear, complete and reliable definitions.
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The most complete online medical dictionary: 16,436 terms covering anatomy, physiology, pathologies, diagnostic exams, pharmacology and every clinical specialty.
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- Antiandrogen A drug that blocks the action of androgens (male sex hormones). Antiandrogens are sometimes used in the…
- Malnutrition-related diabetes At one time, a distinct type of diabetes mellitus, often associated with the tropics and so also called…
- Complement system A series of molecules that work together to perform many immune system functions. For example, the complement…
- Hemidiaphragm, raised See: Elevated hemidiaphragm
- Medicare >'senior citizens' -- people 65 years of age or older, >certain younger people with specific disabilities…
- Dermis The lower or inner layer of the two main layers of cells that make up the skin.The dermis contains blood…
- Single gene disease Any genetic disorder caused by a change affecting only one gene. There are thousands of single-gene diseases…
- Hybrid The word 'hybrid' has a number of different biomedical meanings. In transmission genetics, a hybrid is the…
- Cancer, cervix See: Cervical cancer
- Cephalgia Headache. (One of those things we all know but that defies an easy definition.) Literally, headache is an…
- Negative-strand RNA virus Also known as an antisense-strand RNA virus, a virus whose genetic information consists of a single strand of…