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Allopathic medicine
The system of medical practice which treats disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the disease under treatment. MDs practice allopathic medicine. Also called conventional medicine. The term…
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- Hypermagnesemia Excess magnesium. Persons with impaired kidney function should be especially careful about their magnesium…
- Sciatic nerve The largest nerve in the body, the sciatic nerve begins from nerve roots in the lumbar part of the spinal…
- Skin color The color of skin which is complexly determined. Skin color depends on many factors including reddening…
- Taenia solium The pork tapeworm. Contracted from eating undercooked or measly pork (pork infected with the larval forms of…
- Fear of thunderstorms An abnormal and persistent fear of thunderstorms. Sufferers experience anxiety even when they realize the…
- Magnetic resonance perfusion imaging A special type of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that uses an injected dye in order to see blood flow…
- Nephrectomy The surgical removal of a kidney. A nephrectomy can be radical, simple, or partial. The kidney, the adrenal…
- Subq Abbreviation for subcutaneous. Subcutaneous means under the skin. It implies just under the skin. With a…
- Lithotripsy A procedure to break a stone into small particles that can be passed in the urine.
- Nocturia Excessive urinating at night.
- H. floresiensis See: Homo floresiensis