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Therapy, testosterone replacement
The practice of giving testosterone to treat conditions in which the testes do not produce enough testosterone. This may be due to absence, injury, or disease. Testosterone is available in oral, IV, and patch forms. As with estrogen…
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- Naturopathic medicine See: Naturopathy
- Diverticulum, Zenker See: Zenker diverticulum
- Giardiasis Infection with Giardia lamblia
- Mediterranean anemia Better known today as thalassemia (or as beta thalassemia or thalassemia major). The clinical picture of this…
- Adjuvant The Latin 'adjuvans' means to help, particularly to reach a goal. Adjuvant therapy for cancer is surgery…
- GOLD-2 One of the stages of chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD), according to the Global Initiative for Chronic…
- NINDS Stands for the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, one of the National Institutes of…
- Eosinophilic meningitis Meningitis with a high percentage of eosinophils (a type of white blood cell) in the cerebrospinal fluid…
- Glossal Of or pertaining to the tongue. Glossal is used as both an adjective and a compound word, as in hypoglossal…
- Humorism In medicine, humor refers to a fluid (or semifluid) substance. Thus, the aqueous humor is the fluid normally…
- Implantation, seed Radiation treatment given by placing radioactive material contained within a small cylindrical shell directly…