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Varicella (chickenpox)
A highly infectious viral disease, known familiarly as chickenpox. (In many countries, this disease is always called 'varicella.') Chickenpox has nothing at all to do with chicken. The name was meant to distinguish this 'weak' form of the…
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Show more- Care, postoperative See: Postoperative care
- Amini Amini, Fariborz
- Pediatrics 'Pediatrics is concerned with the health of infants, children and adolescents, their growth and development…
- Peptidase An enzyme that can break down a peptide into its component amino acids
- Pneumomediastinum Free air in the mediastinum (space betweens the lungs) which may give rise to pneumothorax or…
- JP drain The original suction drain. The drain itself is inside the body. It is made of Teflon and has multiple…
- Unconscious 1. Interruption of awareness of oneself and one's surroundings, lack of the ability to notice or respond to…
- Drain, Jackson-Pratt See: JP drain
- Mitotic Pertaining to mitosis.
- RP Retinitis pigmentosa
- Care, hospice See: Hospice care
- Sly syndrome A disorder of mucopolysaccharide metabolism characterized by short stature, coarsening of the facial…