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Traditional oriental medicine
This is a sophisticated form of medicine comprised of many systematic techniques and methods, including acupuncture, herbal medicine, acupressure, qi gong, and oriental massage. The most striking characteristic of oriental medicine is its…
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- Diabetic spinal cord disease Involvement of the spinal cord in diabetes. Most of the neurologic attention in diabetes mellitus has focused…
- Analgesic drug A drug designed to control pain. Analgesic comes from the Greek an-, without + algesis, sense of pain =…
- Maternal myasthenia gravis Myasthenia gravis: The presence of myasthenia gravis in a pregnant woman. Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune…
- Vanishing bone syndrome An inherited form of osteolysis -- the destruction of bone. There are several such syndromes. In one form of…
- Stickler, Gunnar B. German-American pediatrician Gunnar B. Stickler (1925-) who first described the genetic disorder of collagen…
- Ectodermal dysplasia A genetic disorder in which there is abnormal development of the skin and associated structures (the hair…
- Ectopic In the wrong place. Out of place. An ectopic kidney, for example, is one that is not in the usual location…
- Diabetes, gestational A form of diabetes mellitus that appears during pregnancy (gestation) in a woman who previously did not have…
- Immunity, active Immunity, active: The production of antibodies against a specific agent by the immune system. Active immunity…
- NTD Neural tube defect, a major birth defect caused by abnormal development of the neural tube, the structure…