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Arthritis, reactive
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- Staging, laparoscopic See: Laparoscopic staging
- Alpha-linolenic acid An essential fatty acid found in flaxseed oil, canola oil and walnuts. Abbreviated ALA
- Test, tilt-table Tilt-table testing involves placing the patient on a table with a foot-support. The table is tilted upward…
- Levonorgestrel A progestin. Named levonorgestrel because it is the levorotatory form of norgestrel. Used in combination with…
- Skittling Street name for the high produced by abuse of the drug dextromethorphan
- Proctosigmoidoscopy See: Sigmoidoscopy
- Anti-infective Something capable of acting against infection, by inhibiting the spread of an infectious agent or by killing…
- Medical entomology The branch of science that deals with insects that cause disease or that serve as vectors of organisms that…
- Geriatric medicine The branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease in older people and…