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Quaque die (on prescription)
Seen on a prescription, qd (or, written with periods, q.d.) means one a day (from the Latin quaque die). The abbreviation is sometimes written without a period in capital letters as 'QD'. However it is written, it is one of a number of…
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- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Drug Abuse (NIDA): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., NIDA's mission is to 'lead the…
- Carcinoma, pancreatic See: Pancreatic cancer
- ACh (acetylcholine) Abbreviation for acetylcholine. See: Acetylcholine
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- Short arm of a chromosome The short arm of a human chromosome is symbolized by convention as 'p'. The 'p' comes from the French 'petit'…
- Vibramycin Brand name for doxycycline
- Mastoid The rounded protrusion of bone just behind the ear once thought to look like the breast. The word comes from…
- Proteins Large molecules composed of one or more chains of amino acids in a specific order determined by the base…