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Salvage therapy
1. A final treatment for people who are nonresponsive to or cannot tolerate other available therapies for a particular condition and whose prognosis is often poor.2. In oncology, a treatment given after a tumor has not responded to other…
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- Pediatric kidney infection See: Urinary tract infection in children
- Hypochondriasis The belief and fear of serious illness which lasts for six months, beyond and despite medical reassurance…
- Sign of pregnancy See entry to: Pregnancy symptom
- ACNM The American College of Nurse-Midwives. See: Nurse-midwife
- Oswald Theodore Avery See: Avery, Oswald Theodore
- Orchiectomy The surgical removal of one or both testes.
- Bleb A bladder-like structure more than 5 mm in diameter with thin walls that may be full of fluid. Also called a…
- Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) Fever (RMSF): An acute febrile (feverish) disease initially recognized in the Rocky Mountain states, caused…
- Cyclothymia A form of bipolar disorder in which the mood swings are less severe. See also bipolar disease.
- PGA (polyglandular autoimmune syndrome) A genetic autoimmune disease with an extraordinary array of clinical features but characterized most often by…
- Infection, Leishmania See: Leishmania infection