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Metanalysis
A technique currently popular in medical research, whereby all data from all available studies of something are combined, at times regardless of the quality of the data. The technique is used by researchers to get a maximum amount of…
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Show more- Anticonvulsant A medication used to control (prevent) seizures (convulsions) or stop an ongoing series of seizures. There…
- Drug caution codes Abbreviations on medications that indicate caution. While not a part of the historical heritage of ancient…
- Pulmonary hypertension Pulmonary hypertension: High blood pressure in the pulmonary artery that conveys blood from the right…
- RFID Radio frequency identification, a system for remotely storing and retrieving data. RFID tags can serve to…
- Parasomnia A sleep disorder in which odd or dangerous events occur that intrude on sleep. The parasomnias include sleep…
- Emboli Something that travels through the bloodstream, lodges in a blood vessel and blocks it. Examples of emboli…
- Disc Shortened terminology for an intervertebral disc, a disk-shaped piece of specialized tissue that separates…
- CHARGE syndrome See: CHARGE association
- Decongestant A drug that shrinks the swollen membranes in the nose and makes it easier to breath. Decongestants can be…
- ANUG (acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis) This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…
- Joseph Warshaw See: Warshaw, Joseph
- Anfinsen See: Anfinsen, Christian Boehmer, Jr.