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Scrubs
A protective garment designed to be worn by the doctor, nurse, and others in the operating room. The garment was originally a gown. Scrubs now include the shirt and pants worn by those who scrub in for surgery. The wearing of scrubs…
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Show more- Nephritis, infective tubulointerstitial Inflammation of the kidney due to infection. Symptoms include nausea, pain in the kidney area, fever, and…
- Knockout Inactivation of specific genes. Knockouts are often created in laboratory organisms such as yeast or mice so…
- Hemidiaphragm Half of the diaphragm, the muscle that separates the chest cavity from the abdomen and that serves as the…
- Q.s. If a medicine is to be taken every so- many hours, it is written "q_h"; the "q" standing for the Latin word…
- Phagedenic gingivitis This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…
- Palliate To treat partially and incompletely. To palliate a diseases is to treat it partially but not cure it…
- Papilloma, intraductal A benign, wart-like growth that occurs in breast ducts
- Titin A giant filamentous protein essential to the structure, development, and elasticity of muscle. The gene…
- Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur (1859-1930) British physician, better known as the writer who created Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson…
- Dementia, multi-infarct See Vascular dementia
- EM (electron microscope) A microscope in which an electron beam replaces light to form the image. EM stands for electron microscope…
- Gage, Phineas The most famous patient to have survived severe damage to the brain and the first from whom something was…