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Alternative medicine
Alternative medicine: Healing arts not taught in traditional Western medical schools that promote options to conventional medicine that is taught in these schools.. An example of an alternative therapy is using a special diet to treat…
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Show more- Tube, nasogastric See: Nasogastric tube
- Retropubic prostatectomy Surgical removal of the prostate through an incision in the abdomen. NTER>
- Miosis Contraction of the pupil. The opposite of mydriasis.
- Factor V A coagulation factor needed for the normal clotting of blood. Also known as proaccelerin
- Azoospermia No sperm at all. The ejaculate is completely devoid of sperm. By contrast, in oligospermia (literally, few…
- FMO3 Abbreviation for the enzyme, flavin-containing monooxygenase-3. See Fish-odor syndrome
- Herpes simplex type 1 A herpes virus that causes cold sores and fever blisters in and around the mouth. Here is a depiction of a…
- Radius In anatomy, the radius is the smaller of the two bones on the thumb side of the forearm. (The bigger one is…
- Extracorporeal (ECMO) A life support system that circulates the blood through an oxygenating system. ECMO is like a…
- Chest The area of the body located between the neck and the abdomen. The chest contains the lungs, the heart and…
- Sexually transmitted infection An infection that can be transferred from one person to another through sexual contact. In this context…
- Volume, stroke Stroke: The amount of blood pumped by the left ventricle of the heart in one contraction. The stroke volume…