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The most complete online medical dictionary: 16,436 terms covering anatomy, physiology, pathologies, diagnostic exams, pharmacology and every clinical specialty.
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Air travel with diabetes
A concern for patients with diabetes is flying with medications and supplies. Letters from doctors are not recommended since security has concerns that these may be easily forged. The currently recommended way to fly with medications and…
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Show more- Orthotic A support, brace, or splint used to support, align, prevent, or correct the function of movable parts of the…
- Latent Hidden, dormant, inactive. The virus that causes chickenpox remains latent after the initial attack of…
- Morgue A place where bodies of the dead are kept before autopsy, funeral, or burial. The first Morgue was in Paris…
- Diagnosis, differential The process of weighing the probability of one disease versus that of other diseases possibly accounting for…
- Subluxation Partial dislocation of a joint. A complete dislocation is a luxation
- Alkaptonuria Alkaptonuria: A genetic metabolic disorder due to deficiency of the enzyme homogentisic acid (HGA)…
- Autophobia An abnormal and persistent fear of loneliness, of being alone. A fear of solitude. Sufferers from autophobia…
- Bone, blade Familiar term for the scapula, also called the shoulder blade or wing bone, the flat triangular bone at the…
- Aortic aneurysm An outpouching (a local widening) of the largest artery in the body, the aorta, involving that vessel in its…
- Ambulant Means the same as 'ambulatory' (able to ambulate, walk about)
- Hereditary atransferrinemia A genetic disorder in which there is absence of transferrin, a plasma protein that transports iron through…
- Rheumatologist, pediatric A physician who specializes in providing comprehensive care to children (as well as their families) with…