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Antivenin
Antibodies created in the blood of a horse or sheep when the animal is injected with snake venom. Antivenin acts by neutralizing snake venom that has entered the body. Also called antivenom, snake antivenin, or snake antivenom. Other…
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Show more- Condition, Sever Inflammation of the growth plate of the calcaneus, the bone at the back of the heel. The inflammation is at…
- Library, arrayed In genetics, arrayed libraries of DNA clones are used for many purposes, including screening for a specific…
- Encephalitis Inflammation of the brain. Encephalitis occurs, for example, in 1 in 1,000 cases of measles. It may start (up…
- Humor, aqueous In medicine, humor refers to a fluid (or semifluid) substance. Thus, the aqueous humor is the fluid normally…
- Lepra 1. Leprosy (Hansen disease) 2. Before the mid 19th century, psoriasis.The acronym LEPRA stands for the…
- Juxtaposition The prefix 'juxta-' comes from the Latin preposition meaning near, nearby, close. Juxtaposition is thus the…
- Antisocial personality See: Antisocial personality disorder
- Ptosis Downward displacement. Ptosis of the eyelids is drooping of the eyelids.
- Metered-dose inhaler Abbreviated MDI. A device that delivers a measured amount of medication as a mist the patient can inhale. A…
- Myco- Prefix that denotes a relationship to fungus. From the Greek mykes, meaning fungus
- House staff The resident physicians of a hospital who care for patients under the direction of the attending staff. House…
- Diabetic macular edema Edema: Swelling of the retina in diabetes mellitus due to leaking of fluid from blood vessels within the…