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Electromagnetic field therapy
See: Magnet therapy
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- Anfinsen, Christian Boehmer, Jr. (1916-1995) American biochemist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize for work that helped explain the structure…
- Hippophobia An abnormal and persistent fear of horses. Sufferers of this fear experience undue anxiety even when a horse…
- Long-term memory A system for permanently storing, managing, and retrieving information for later use. Items of information…
- Dacryo- A combining form denoting tears, as in dacryocyst (tear sac) and dacryocystorhinostomy (surgery to open up a…
- Legg disease See Legg-Calve-Perthes disease
- Antithyroglobulin An antibody directed against thyroglobulin which is a key protein in the thyroid gland essential to the…
- Practice, family The medical specialty which provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family…
- Respiratory therapy Exercises and treatments designed to help patients maintain and recover lung function, such as with cystic…
- Sitophilus granarius See: Granary weevil
- Case-to-infection ratio The ratio of the number of cases of a disease compared to the number of infections with the agent that causes…
- Breech birth Literally, delivery of the baby by the buttocks first, rather than the head as is usual. Breech birth is more…