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Psychiatric
Pertaining to or within the purview of psychiatry, the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illness. Psychiatric may refer to mental illness. For example, the 42-year-old man had a long…
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- Rib, cervical A extra rib which arises from the seventh cervical vertebra. It is located above the normal first rib. A…
- FAP Familial adenomatous polyposis, a prominent hereditary colon cancer syndrome
- Grapefruit diet The Grapefruit diet is a weight loss plan that incorporates eating half a grapefruit with each meal and…
- Otitis Inflammation of the ear. Depending upon which part of the ear is inflammed, there is otitis externa, otitis…
- Interleukin-3 A protein that stimulates the immune system to develop mast cells and bone-marrow cells. Abbreviated IL-3
- Specificity, analytic See: Analytic specificity
- Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale A 1-5 rating based on the hurricane's present intensity. This scale is used to give an estimate of the…
- Psychosis, intensive care unit A disorder in which patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) or a similar hospital setting may experience…
- Nipple The pigmented projection on the surface of the breast. Ducts that conduct milk from the mammary glands to the…
- Endogenous Inside. For example, endogenous cholesterol is cholesterol that is made inside the body and is not in the…
- LAVH Laparoscopic assisted vaginal hysterectomy, a procedure using laparoscopic techniques to remove the uterus…