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Palliative treatment
To palliate a disease is to treat it partially and insofar as possible, but not cure it completely. Palliation cloaks a disease. Also sometimes called symptomatic treatment. To take a case, a 91-year-old man was found to have a tumor in…
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Show more- Drug, antihypertensive As the name clearly implies, a drug aimed at reducing high blood pressure (hypertension)
- Zhong Wei Chen See: Chen, Zhong Wei
- Argyria Silver poisoning resulting in ashen gray discolored skin (and other tissues of the body). Due to long-term…
- Isodisomy Remarkable situation where both chromosomes in a pair are from one parent and neither from the other…
- Blistering agent See: Vesicant
- F (symbol) A much used symbol, F stands for fractional concentration; free energy; Fahrenheit; visual field; fluorine…
- Fear of children An abnormal and persistent fear of babies and children. Sufferers experience anxiety even though they realize…
- Effusion, pleural See: Pleural effusion
- Glioma A brain tumor that begin in a glial, or supportive, cell, in the brain or spinal cord. Malignant gliomas are…
- Annals of Internal Medicine : A medical journal especially concerned with information in the field of internal medicine (adult medicine)…
- Chronic illness An illness that persists for a long period of time. The term 'chronic' comes from the Greek chronos, time and…
- Spinal stenosis Narrowing of the spaces in the spine, resulting in compression of the nerve roots or spinal cord by bony…