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Presenteeism
The problem of workers being on the job but, because of medical conditions, not fully functioning. The health problems that result in presenteeism include such chronic or episodic ailments as seasonal include: depression, back pain…
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- Family 1. A group of individuals related by blood or marriage or by a feeling of closeness. 2. A biological…
- Lymphadenitis, regional Cat scratch disease, a mild flu-like infection, with swollen lymph nodes (lymphadenitis) and mild fever of…
- Yellow fever vaccination A live attenuated (weakened) viral vaccine that is recommended for people traveling to or living in tropical…
- Thyroid storm Thyroid storm is a severe, life-threatening condition caused by an excess of thyroid hormone. A number of…
- Childhood liver cancer Primary cancer of the liver (cancer that starts in the liver) in children, a relatively rare malignancy in…
- Polio vaccine, killed See: Polio vaccine, inactivated
- Migraine, menstrual See: Menstrual migraine
- Embolus Something that travels through the bloodstream, lodges in a blood vessel and blocks it. Examples of emboli…
- Arrayed library In genetics, an arrayed library consists of (in technical terms) individual primary recombinant clones which…
- Human embryonic stem cell Stem cell: Also known as a human pluripotent stem cell, one of the 'cells that are self-replicating, are…
- Water pore See: Aquaporin