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Distance healing
Healing in which people seek to help patients simply with the power of the mind. Distance healing can include anything from therapeutic touch -- in which practitioners, without touching their patients, try to alter their energy fields --…
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- Heart, right The heart is composed functionally of two hearts - the right heart and the left heart. The right heart…
- Supertaster A supertaster has an unusually large density of taste buds, each surrounded by pain fibers
- American Academy of Pediatrics AAP. Its member pediatricians 'dedicate their efforts and resources to the health, safety and well-being of…
- Base in DNA A unit of the DNA. There are 4 bases: adenine (A), guanine (G), thymine (T), and cytosine (C). The sequence…
- Taenia armata Taenia solium
- Itching, anal See: Anal itching
- ICD Implantable cardiac defibrillator, a device that is put within the body and is designed to recognize certain…
- Dermopathy Any disease of the skin. Synonymous with dermatopathy.
- EDC Estimated date of confinement, the estimated calendar date when the baby will be born
- Poliomyelitis An acute and sometimes devastating viral disease. Man is the only natural host for poliovirus. The virus…
- Nipple shield A cap or dome, usually made today of plastic (formerly, rubber), placed over the nipple and areola during…