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Intensivist
A physician who specializes in the care of critically ill patients, usually in an intensive care unit (ICU)
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- Ectopic In the wrong place. Out of place. An ectopic kidney, for example, is one that is not in the usual location…
- Osteogenesis The production of bone
- EBM Evidence-based medicine
- Nerve, vestibulocochlear A nerve that is responsible for the sense of hearing and which is also pertinent to balance, to the body…
- Adult respiratory distress syndrome Better known as ARDS. See: ARDS
- P arm of a chromosome The short arm of a chromosome. The 'p' comes from the French 'petit' meaning small. All human chromosomes…
- Complete syndactyly A condition in which singers or toes are completely joined together, with the connection extending from the…
- Fever, typhoid See: Typhoid fever
- Epilepsy, temporal lobe See: Epilepsy, temporal-lobe
- Opiate agonist maintenance See: Methadone treatment program
- Primary liver cancer, adult A tumor in which the cancer starts during adulthood in cells in the liver. Also called hepatocellular…