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Long-term care facility
A facility that provides rehabilitative, restorative, and/or ongoing skilled nursing care to patients or residents in need of assistance with activities of daily living. Long-term care facilities include nursing homes, rehabilitation…
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- BTE Behind-the-ear. See also: Behind-the-ear hearing aid
- Prostatodynia A type of inflammation of the prostate not due to bacterial infection and in which there are no objective…
- CpG island In molecular genetics, a short region of DNA rich in CpG sites, often located near the promoters of genes…
- Nicotinic acid Deficiency of nicotinic acid (also known as niacin), one of the B-complex vitamins, causes pellagra. Pellagra…
- CNPs Copy number polymorphisms
- Tetralogy of Fallot A combination of four heart defects that are present together at birth, accounting for about 10% of all…
- Therapy The treatment of disease. Therapy is synonymous with treatment, as for example: > >Antiretroviral therapy…
- Kissing disease A name for infectious mononucleosis ('mono'), a very common illness caused by the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)…
- Negative calorie diet The Negative calorie diet is a weight loss concept based upon the premise that consumption of foods with a…
- Serum amyloid A A superfamily of acute-phase proteins. The level of serum amyloid A (SAA) in the blood increases dramatically…
- Subclavian steal An illness that stays below the surface of clinical detection. A subclinical disease has no recognizable…