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Cyanide
>First, get fresh air by leaving the area where the cyanide was released. Moving to an area with fresh air is a good way to reduce the possibility of death from exposure to cyanide gas. >If the cyanide release was outside, move away from…
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Show more- Anhedonia Loss of the capacity to experience pleasure. The inability to gain pleasure from normally pleasurable…
- Virulence The ability of any agent of infection to produce disease. The virulence of a microorganism (such as a…
- Photodynamic therapy Photodynamic therapy: A form of cancer treatment using an photosensitizing agent administered intravenously…
- Homozygous Possessing two identical forms of a particular gene, one inherited from each parent
- CBC A commonly used abbreviation in medicine that stands for complete blood count, a set values of the cellular…
- Abse, Dannie British pulmonary physician and poet. Abse was born in 1923 in Cardiff, Wales to a Jewish family. He studied…
- Therapeutic Relating to therapeutics, that part of medicine concerned specifically with the treatment of disease. The…
- Vaccinia adverse reaction See Smallpox vaccination adverse reaction
- Malar Referring to the cheek.
- Carbonmonoxyhemoglobin See: Carboxyhemoglobin
- Periodontal disease A bacterial infection that destroys the attachment fibers and supporting bone that hold the teeth in the…
- WM Abbreviation for 'white male' used by doctors as shorthand when jotting down the results of their physical…