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Palliate
To treat partially and incompletely. To palliate a diseases is to treat it partially but not cure it completely. Palliation cloaks a disease. Palliate has several senses, including: to reduce the severity of (a disease); to moderate the…
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Show more- Turgor Gree of elasticity of skin, sometimes referred to as skin turgor. The assessment of skin turgor is used…
- Pseudomembranous colitis Severe inflammation of the inner lining of the colon. Pseudomembranous colitis is characterized by pus and…
- Varicose vein A dilated (widened) tortuous (twisting) vein, usually involving a superficial vein in the leg, often…
- Leg In popular usage, the leg extends from the top of the thigh down to the foot. However, in medical…
- American Cancer Society (ACS) A 'nationwide community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health…
- Primary First or foremost in time or development. The primary teeth (the baby teeth) are those that come first…
- Polymorphonuclear leukocyte A type of white blood cell with a nucleus that is so deeply lobated or divided that the cell looks to have…
- Syndrome, Kartagener's The trio of sinusitis, bronchitis and situs inversus (lateral reversal of the position all organs in the…
- Caudal block See Caudal anesthesia
- Patellar reflex See: Knee jerk
- Spermatogenesis The process of sperm formation. The term was created from the prefix 'spermato-' (Greek sperma, the seed or…
- Peristalsis The rippling motion of muscles in the digestive tract. In the stomach, this motion mixes food with gastric…