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Hygiene
The science of preventive medicine and the preservation of health. From the name of Hygeia, the daughter of Asklepios, the Greek god of medicine (whose staff with entwined snake is the symbol of medicine). Asklepios (known to the Romans as…
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Show more- Gene amplification Making multiple copies of a gene. Repeated copying of a gene. Gene amplification plays a role in cancer…
- Asthenia Weakness. Lack of energy and strength. Loss of strength. The word asthenia is not much used in medicine…
- Suicide prevention Diminishing the risk of suicide. It may not be possible to eliminate entirely the risk of suicide but it is…
- St. Louis encephalitis A disease caused by a virus (first observed in Illinois in 1932) transmitted from birds to the common Culex…
- PAPPA Pregnancy-associated plasma protein A
- Nicotine Nicotine: An alkaloid (a nitrogen-containing chemical) made by the tobacco plant or produced synthetically…
- Pregnancy calendar A pregnancy calendar is a chronological depiction of changes in a pregnant woman and the embryo/fetus during…
- Fixation, external A procedure that stabilizes and joins the ends of fractured (broken) bones by a splint or cast. External…
- Female pelvis The lower part of the abdomen located between the hip bones in the female. There are significant differences…
- Neurofibromatosis type 1 NF1, a genetic disorder characterized by a number of remarkable skin findings including multiple cafe au lait…
- Genome, mustard Arabidopsis thaliana See: Arabidopsis thaliana genome
- Vaginosis, bacterial See: Bacterial vaginosis