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Pharmacy, compounding
A facility that both makes and sells prescription drugs. A compounding pharmacy can often concoct drug formulas that are specially tailored to patients: for example, liquid versions of medications normally available only in pill form, for…
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- Horripilation Better known as goose bumps, a temporary local change in the skin when it becomes rougher due to erection of…
- Disc Shortened terminology for an intervertebral disc, a disk-shaped piece of specialized tissue that separates…
- Doyne honeycomb retinal dystrophy Abbreviated DHRD. An eye disease also known as malattia leventinese. See: Malattia leventinese
- FFI Fatal familial insomnia
- Pharmaco-epidemiology The study of the use of drugs in society. The process of identifying and responding to safety issues about…
- Debride To remove dead, contaminated or adherent tissue or foreign material. The purpose of wound debridement is to…
- Facultative 1. In general, not obligatory but rather capable of adapting to different conditions. The opposite of…
- Intrauterine growth restriction The growth of the fetus is abnormally slow. When born, the baby appears too small, considering its' dates…
- Umami The taste of substances such as glutamate and monosodium glutamate (MSG) that are found in foods like…
- Prognosis 1. The expected course of a disease.2. The patient's chance of recovery. The prognosis predicts the outcome…
- Thrombophilia The tendency to form blood clots (thrombosis). The clots can break off, travel through the bloodstream and…