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Debride
To remove dead, contaminated or adherent tissue or foreign material. The purpose of wound debridement is to remove all materials that may promote infection and impede healing. This may be done by enzymatic debridement (as with proteolytic…
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Show more- Medical school syndrome A form of acute hypochondriasis that affects most people in training to be a physician. For example, when…
- VWM Leukoencephalopathy with vanishing white matter, an inherited brain disease that occurs mainly in children…
- MAP The commonly used term for Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis. MAP is an acronym derived from…
- Tenia In medicine, tenia is a genus (group) of large tapeworms some of which are parasitic in humans. In anatomy…
- B. burgdorferi Short for Borrelia burgdorferi, the cause of Lyme disease. Once the full name of a bacterium has been given…
- Carcinoma in situ Cancer that involves only the place in which it began and that has not spread. Carcinoma in situ is an…
- Strollerobics The supportive framework of an organ (or gland or other structure), usually composed of connective tissue…
- Papuliferous 1. Having papules. 2. Having pimples. Simply pimply. From papule, pimple + the Latin fero, to bear. Also…
- Acoustic aphasia See: Auditory aphasia
- Reportable disease A disease that must be reported to federal, state, or local health officials when diagnosed. Reportable…
- Hepatic duct A duct that carries bile from the liver into the common bile duct which conveys it to the duodenum (the upper…
- Dermal Pertaining to the skin. From the Greek word derma for skin