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Therapy
The treatment of disease. Therapy is synonymous with treatment, as for example: > >Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is treatment that suppresses a retrovirus such as HIV. >Brachytherapy is treatment given by placing radioactive material…
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- Muscle relaxant Muscle relaxant is a term usually used to refer to skeletal muscle relaxants (drugs), which act on the…
- Cysteine An amino acid, one of the 20 building blocks of protein. Cysteine can be synthesized by the body and is not…
- Toxicity The degree to which a substance can harm humans or animals. Toxicity can be acute, subchronic, or chronic: >…
- Polycystic kidney disease, infantile See: Polycystic kidney disease, autosomal recessive
- Pancreatic juices Inflammation of the pancreas. Of the many diverse causes of pancreatitis, the most common are alcohol and…
- Asthma, exercise-induced Asthma, exercise-induced: Asthma that is 'triggered' by vigorous physical activity. Exercise-induced asthma…
- Hypertrophic hypoproteinemic gastropathy See: Giant hypertrophic gastritis
- Tuberculosis, bovine See: Bovine tuberculosis
- Pharmacogenomics The study of how variations in the human genome affect the response to medications. The older term…
- Right hepatic duct The duct that drains bile from the right half of the liver and joins the left hepatic duct to form the common…
- Acute tubular necrosis A severe form of acute renal failure that develops in people with severe illnesses (such as sepsis) or with…