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Medical physics
The science of human health and radiation exposure. Medical physics, also called health physics, is devoted to radiation safety. The international professional body for health physics, the Health Physics Society, notes that: 'For decades…
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- Disorder, bipolar See: Bipolar disorder
- Prophase chromosome A chromosome at the prophase stage in the cell cycle, before metaphase (when a chromosome is most highly…
- Penis, inflammation of the head of the Inflammation of the rounded head (the glans) of the penis is called balanitis. In the uncircumcised male…
- Amnesia, anterograde See: Antegrade amnesia
- Shettles method A set of procedures proposed and popularized for sex selection by the gynecologist Landrum B. Shettles…
- Medical jurisprudence The branch of the law that deals with the application of law to medicine or, conversely, the application of…
- Deficiency, phenylalanine hydroxylase See Phenylalanine hydroxylase deficiency
- Teleology The study of the ultimate purpose of the design of something in nature. For example, 'what is the true…
- Hypospadias A birth defect of the penis involving the urethra (the transport tube leading from the bladder to discharge…
- Medication, antibiotic A drug used to treat bacterial infections. The original definition of an antibiotic was a substance produced…
- Human gene therapy Insertion of normal DNA directly into cells to correct a genetic defect. The treatment of disease by…