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Behavioral medicine
An interdisciplinary field of research and practice that focuses on how people's thoughts and behavior affect their health and disease. Behavioral medicine is concerned, for example, with undesirable behaviors such as drug abuse and…
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Show more- Gigantism Excessive growth both in height and specific body parts. Gigantism with extreme height may be associated with…
- Myoglobin The pigment in muscle that carries oxygen.
- Let down reflex An involuntary reflex during breastfeeding which causes the milk to flow freely
- Dumdum fever Also called kala-azar, a chronic, potentially fatal parasitic disease of the viscera (the internal organs)…
- Tendon, patellar See: Patellar tendon
- Catheter, central A catheter (a tube) that is passed through a vein to end up in the thoracic (chest) portion of the vena cava…
- Scratch test for allergy A mammogram (an X-ray of the breast) in women who have no signs of breast cancer. It usually involves two…
- Cannabis The botanical name for the plant from which marijuana comes. Its full name is Cannibis sativa. Use of…
- Pachyderma Thick skin, like that of a pachyderm (an elephant, rhinoceros, or hippopotamus). From the Greek pachydermos…
- Remission Disappearance of the signs and symptoms of cancer or other disease. When this happens, the disease is said to…
- Austin Flint murmur A murmur due to aortic regurgitation, originating at the mitral valve when blood enters simultaneously from…
- Evertor A muscle that turns a part toward the outside. To evert is to turn outward or turn inside out. From the Latin…