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Panacea
A universal remedy, a cure-all. The word 'panacea' comes from the name of Panaceia, the daughter of Asklepios, the Greek god of medicine (whose staff with entwined snake is the symbol of medicine). Asklepios (known to the Romans as…
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Show more- Infantile thiamine deficiency See: Infantile beriberi
- Phlebotomist A person who draws blood.
- Sternutator Something that causes a sneeze. From the Latin sternutatio (sneeze). See also: Sternutation
- Q_h (on prescription) If a medicine is to be taken every so- many hours, it is written 'q_h'; the 'q' standing for the Latin word…
- Maneuver, Heimlich An emergency treatment for obstruction of the airway in adults. It may be needed when someone chokes on a…
- Transferrin A plasma protein that transports iron through the blood to the liver, spleen and bone marrow. The blood…
- Familial Parkinson disease type 1 A familial form of Parkinson disease inherited in an autosomal dominant manner due to mutation in the…
- Lazy eye An eye that diverges in gaze. A lazy eye is formally called strabismus. A lazy eye (strabismus) can be due to…
- Diagnosis, differential The process of weighing the probability of one disease versus that of other diseases possibly accounting for…
- Anat. The abbreviation for anatomy, the study of form. Gross anatomy involves structures that can be seen with the…
- Natural pacemaker The natural pacemaker of the heart is the sinus node, one of the major elements in the cardiac conduction…
- Mucopolysaccharidosis type VII Sly syndrome, due to deficiency of the enzyme beta-glucuronidase. See also Mucopolysaccharidosis