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D.O.
Abbreviation for Doctor of Osteopathy, an osteopathic physician. Osteopathy is a system of therapy founded in the 19th century based on the concept that the body can formulate its own remedies against diseases when the body is in a normal…
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Show more- Contraction The tightening and shortening of a muscle
- Replacement therapy, hormone (HRT) The combination therapy of estrogen plus progestogen, termed hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Estrogen…
- Syndrome, Barlow Barlow syndrome is mitral valve prolapse (also known as 'click murmur syndrome'), the most common heart valve…
- Electrophysiologic study of the heart A test of the electrical conduction system of the heart (the system that generates the heart beat)…
- Open fracture A fracture in which the bone is sticking through the skin. Also called a compound fracture. NTER> Note that…
- System, cardiac conduction The electrical conduction system that controls the heart rate. This system generates electrical impulses and…
- Psychosomatic Relating to both the mind and the body or to the mind-body interrelationships. From the Greek words…
- John La Montagne See: La Montagne, John
- Opium An addictive narcotic drug derived from the unripe seedpods of the opium poppy. Preparations of opium were…
- DT Diphtheria-Tetanus vaccine.
- Prosthesis An artificial substitute or replacement of a part of the body such as a tooth, eye, a facial bone, the…
- Off-pump Not on the pump, usually meaning not on the heart-lung machine. See also: Off-pump surgery