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Family medicine
Also called family practice. The medical specialty which provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family. It is the specialty in breadth which integrates the biological, clinical, and behavioral sciences…
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- Disease-free survival See: Multiple sclerosis.
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- Robo Street name for the cough syrup Robitussin which contains dextromethorphan (DXM)
- Model end stage liver disease See: MELD
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- Artemsisia annua A Chinese herb (qinghaosu or sweet wormwood) from which is extracted the antimalarial agent artemisinin
- Fever, relapsing See: Relapsing fever
- Variola The old practice of inoculating someone with the virus of smallpox to produce immunity to the disease. Lady…
- Abuse, physical child Next to child neglect, physical abuse is the second most frequently reported form of child abuse, accounting…