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Diagnosis, retrospective
See: Retrodiagnosis
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- Total parenteral nutrition Intravenous feeding that provides a patient with all of the fluid and the essential nutrients they need when…
- Systole, premature See: Extrasystole
- SEER program The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), an…
- Sulfa drug One of the sulfonamides, the sulfa-related antibiotics which are used to treat bacterial and some fungal…
- Paragonimus infection See: Paragonimiasis
- Bacterial Of or pertaining to bacteria. For example, a bacterial lung infection
- Food poisoning Food poisoning: A common flu-like illness typically characterized by nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, due to…
- Folate Folic acid, one of the B vitamins that is a key factor in the synthesis (the making) of nucleic acid (DNA and…
- Vein, superior vena cava A large vein that receives blood from the head, neck, upper extremities, and thorax and empties it into the…
- Juvenile polyposis coli See: Juvenile polyposis