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Single-payer health care
A system of health care characterized by universal and comprehensive coverage. Single-payer health care is similar to the health services provided by Medicare in the US. The government pays for care that is delivered in the private (mostly…
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Show more- MRI Abbreviation and nickname for magnetic resonance imaging. For more information, see: Magnetic Resonance…
- Meconium Dark sticky material normally present in the intestine at birth and passed in the feces after birth. The…
- Decortication Removal of part or all of the outer surface of an organ such as the lung, kidney, or brain
- Auscultate To listen to the sounds made by the internal organs of the body for diagnostic purposes. For example, nurses…
- Antisense DNA DNA normally has two strands, i.e., the sense strand and the antisense strand. In double-stranded DNA, only…
- Ear piercing The practice of using a needle or needle gun to make holes through the ear lobe or other parts of the ear for…
- Bergstrom See: Bergström, Sune K.
- Test, syphilis (VDRL) A blood test for syphilis (VDRL stands for Venereal Disease Research Laboratory) that detects an antibody…
- Great pox Syphilis. An old name to distinguish it from the smallpox
- Syndrome, Poland A unique pattern of one-sided malformations characterized by a defect of the chest (pectoralis) muscle on one…
- Chlamydia trachomatis A bacterium that causes a disease called trachoma that results in blindness so frequently that it places a…
- Anastomosis The connection of normally separate parts or spaces so they intercommunicate. An anastomosis may be naturally…