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Heimlich maneuver
An emergency treatment for obstruction of the airway in adults. It may be needed when someone chokes on a piece of food that has 'gone down the wrong way.' To perform the Heimlich maneuver, stand behind the victim, wrap your arms around…
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- Postulates, Koch's In 1890 the German physician and bacteriologist Robert Koch set out his celebrated criteria for judging…
- EOS The gene for familial eosinophilia. EOS has been mapped to chromosome region 5q31-33 containing the cytokine…
- Douglas, pouch of >Culdoscopy, the introduction of a viewing tube (endoscope) through the vagina into the cul-de-sac…
- Cerebrovascular disease Disease of the blood vessels and, especially, the arteries that supply the brain. Cerebrovascular disease is…
- Kok disease A genetic disorder also known as hyperexplexia in which babies have an exaggerated startle reflex (reaction)…
- Invest In medicine, this has nothing to do with the stock market. It means to envelop, cover, or embed.
- Supplies kit, emergency Treatment given to prevent, control, or relieve complications and side effects and to improve the patient's…
- DT Diphtheria-Tetanus vaccine.
- Phenomenon, Babinski A neurologic reflex that constitutes an important medical examination based upon what the big toe does when…
- Endochondral bone Any bone that develops in and replaces cartilage. The cartilage is partially or entirely destroyed by the…
- Sigmoidoscopy Inspection of the rectum and lower colon using a thin lighted tube called a sigmoidoscope. Samples of tissue…