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Beers criteria
Criteria for safe medication use in older adults -- for people over 65 years of age. First issued in 1991, these criteria have been repeatedly revised and updated. In addition to the benzodiazepines, the Beers criteria (or list) has…
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- Malaria Malaria: An infectious disease caused by protozoan parasites from the Plasmodium family that can be…
- Sporadic primary pulmonary hypertension See: Pulmonary hypertension
- Immunotherapy Treatment to stimulate or restore the ability of the immune (defense) system to fight infection and disease…
- Scleromalacia Degenerative thinning of the sclera, the tough white coat that covers most of the back of the eyeball and…
- Clostridium welchii See: Clostridium perfingens.
- Tenia In medicine, tenia is a genus (group) of large tapeworms some of which are parasitic in humans. In anatomy…
- Acute-phase reactant See: Acute-phase protein
- Pleural effusion Excess fluid between the two membranes that envelop the lungs. These membranes are called the visceral and…
- Elbow, tip of the The bony tip of the elbow is called the olecranon. It is formed by the near end of the ulna, one of the two…
- Mortality, infant The death of an infant before his or her first birthday. The infant mortality rate is, by definition, the…
- Syndrome, battered child A disease in which children are physically abused. The battered child syndrome is a form of child abuse. Not…