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Medical vocabulary with 16,436 clear, complete and reliable definitions.
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Typhus, scrub
A mite-borne infectious disease caused by a microorganism, Rickettsia tsutsugamushi, characteristically with fever, headache, a raised (macular) rash, swollen glands (lymphadenopathy) and a dark crusted ulcer (called an eschar or tache…
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- Clone Literally a fragment, the word in modern medical science has come to mean a replica, for example, of a group…
- Proliferative Growing and increasing in number rapidly. For example, the lymphoproliferative disorders are diseases in…
- Environmental medicine The interactions between risk factors in the environment and human health. Environmental medicine focuses on…
- Syndrome, Werner A premature aging disease that begins in adolescence or early in adulthood and results in apparent old age by…
- Orthopod Slang for orthopedist.
- Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor A selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) is one of the commonly prescribed drugs for treating…
- Reverse genetics In classic genetics, the traditional approach was to find a gene product and then try to identify the gene…
- Node, SA The SA node (SA stands for sinoatrial) is one of the major elements in the cardiac conduction system, the…
- Palmar Pertaining to the palm (the grasping side) of the hand. The ancient Romans used the word 'palma' for the…
- Persantine thallium scan A type of myocardial perfusion scan done to disclose any areas of the heart muscle that may not be getting…
- Resistance, antibiotic The ability of bacteria and other microorganisms to withstand an antibiotic to which they were once sensitive…