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- Placebo-controlled A term used to describe a method of research in which an inactive substance (a placebo) is given to one group…
- Premature menopause Premature menopause: Menopause (permanent cessation of menses) occurring before age 40 due to ovarian…
- Male genitalia The genital organs of the male. These are usually separated by convention into the external and internal…
- Data Facts, statistics, and the like. In medicine and the health sciences, people often speak of 'the data'…
- Efferent Carrying away. An artery is an efferent vessel carrying blood away from the heart. An efferent nerve carries…
- Hypercarbia More than the normal level of carbon dioxide in the blood. Hypercarbia is the opposite of hypocarbia
- Synaesthesia See: Synesthesia
- Replacement therapy, testosterone The practice of giving testosterone to treat conditions in which the testes do not produce enough…
- Ban zhi lian See: Scutellaria barbata
- Cyclic vomiting syndrome See: Cystocele.
- Insomnia, intermittent Insomnia that occurs from time to time and each time lasts less than a week or two. Intermittent insomnia may…