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Hospice care
Care designed to give supportive care to people in the final phase of a terminal illness and focus on comfort and quality of life, rather than cure. The goal is to enable patients to be comfortable and free of pain, so that they live each…
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Show more- Cryptorchidism 1. Pertaining to the elbow. 2. Pertaining to the forearm and hand. 3. Pertaining to the ulna. From the Latin…
- MB ChB Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degrees. See: MBChB
- Fever, Pontiac See: Pontiac fever
- Schedules, Gesell Developmental A measure of child development devised by the American child psychologist and pediatrician Arnold Gesell…
- Kit, emergency supplies A group of bacteria normally living in the intestinal tract and frequently the cause of nosocomial infections…
- Intrahepatic Within the liver.
- Salmonella genome The entire genetic complement (the DNA) of Salmonella bacteria. The genomes of two strains of Salmonella…
- C peptide See: C-peptide
- STAT Medical term used to imply urgent or rush. It may appear in lower case letters as stat or in capital letters…
- Smoking, passive The inhaling of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) by someone who is not smoking. See: ETS
- Anti-platelet agents Medications that, like aspirin, reduce the tendency of platelets in the blood to clump and clot
- Fruitfly genome See: Drosophila genome