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Potassium balance
The balance between too much potassium and, far more often today, too little potassium. Adults should consume at least 4.7 grams of potassium per day to lower blood pressure, blunt the effects of salt, and reduce the risk of kidney stones…
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- THG Tetrahydrogestrinone. A 'designer steroid.' THG first surfaced in October 2003 with reports of its illicit…
- Binocular diplopia See: Diplopia, binocular
- Radiation oncologist A specialist in the use of radiation therapy as a treatment for cancer
- Cranial nerve VII The cranial nerves emerge from or enter the skull (the cranium), as opposed to the spinal nerves which emerge…
- Vaccination, infectious hepatitis See Immunization, hepatitis A.
- T cell, peripheral A T cell found in the peripheral blood rather than in the lymphatic system.
- Medication 1. A drug or medicine. 2. The administration of a drug or medicine. (Note that 'medication' does not have the…
- Single-masked See: Single-blind
- Body stuffing The swallowing of relatively small amounts of loosely wrapped illicit drugs because of the fear of arrest
- Guillain-Barre syndrome Guillain-Barre syndrome: A disorder characterized by progressive symmetrical paralysis and loss of reflexes…
- Rebound effect The characteristic of a drug to produce reverse effects when the effect of the drug has passed or the patient…