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Code, hospital
While there is no formal definition for a 'Code,' doctors often use the term as slang to refer to a patient in cardiopulmonary arrest , requiring a team of providers (sometimes called a 'code team') to rush to the specific location and…
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Show more- Intrathecal chemotherapy Chemotherapy: Treatment with drugs that are injected into the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord…
- International unit (IU) An international unit (IU) is an internationally accepted amount of a substance. This type of measure is used…
- Amygdaloid complex See: Amygdaloid nucleus
- Good Samaritan law A law designed to protect a Good Samaritan from legal liability. Such laws usually specify that whoever in…
- Membrane A very thin layer of tissue that covers a surface.
- Syndrome, Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker This condition is a primary problem of platelets in which the platelets lack the ability to stick adequately…
- Study, crossover A type of clinical trial in which the study subjects receive each treatment in a random order. In this type…
- Acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis (ANUG) This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…
- SKY (spectral karyotype) Karyotype: A visualization of all of the chromosomes in the genome all together with each chromosome labeled…
- Maternal age The number of maternal deaths related to childbearing divided by the number of live births (or by the number…
- XX gonadal dysgenesis with sensorineural deafness See Perrault syndrome
- Zinc finger A finger-shaped fold in a protein that permits it to interact with DNA and RNA. The fold is created by the…