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Anticipatory grief
The normal mourning that occurs when a patient or family is expecting a death. Anticipatory grief has many of the same symptoms as those experienced after a death has occurred. It includes all of the thinking, feeling, cultural, and social…
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- Chemosensory Pertaining to the sensing of chemicals, as by olfaction (the sense of smell). Diabetes and Parkinson's…
- Transplant The grafting of a tissue from one place to another, just as in botany a bud from one plant might be grafted…
- Cotinine The major metabolite (breakdown product) of nicotine. Exposure to nicotine can be measured by analyzing the…
- Acid, fatty One of many molecules that are long chains of lipid-carboxylic acid found in fats and oils and in cell…
- Acute kidney failure See: Acute renal failure
- Antegrade Forward-moving. As in blood flow. Sometimes synonymous with anterograde. From the Latin ante- + gradior, to…
- Thalidomide baby An infant affected by prenatal exposure to the drug thalidomide. This medication was prescribed to pregnant…
- Doppler ultrasound A form of ultrasound that can detect and measure blood flow. Doppler ultrasound depends on the Doppler…
- Foot-drop Dropping of the front of the foot due to weakness or paralysis of the anterior muscles of the lower leg…
- Drain, Jackson Pratt See: JP drain
- National Academies Collectively, the four National Academies of the United States -- the National Academy of Sciences, the…