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Aromatherapy
A form of alternative and complimentary medicine based on the use of very concentrated 'essential' oils from the flowers, leaves, bark, branches, rind or roots of plants with purported healing properties. In aromatherapy these potent oils…
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- Polycythemia vera (PV) Overproduction (proliferation) of red blood cells due to bone marrow disease (myeloproferative disorder). PV…
- Nervine A nerve tonic, a medicine that acts therapeutically upon the nerves, particularly in the sense of a sedative…
- Diseases, rickettsial The infectious diseases caused by the rickettsiae fall into 4 groups:(1) typhus: epidemic typhus…
- Ovary The female gonad, the ovary is one of a pair of reproductive glands in women. They are located in the pelvis…
- Ordre des Medecins The Conseil National de l'Ordre des Médecins. The French equivalent of the American Medical Association (the…
- Flu, avian See: Avian influenza
- Perionychium The tissue surrounding the nail, whether it be a fingernail or a toenail, including the tissue bordering the…
- Secondary atelectasis Partial or total collapse of a lung or a segment of a lung that was once expanded, as may happen after chest…
- Differentiated cancer Cancer: A cancer in which the cells are mature and look like cells in the tissue from it arose…
- Subscapular Under the scapula, like the subscapularis muscle, which originates beneath the scapula.
- Situational syncope The temporary loss of consciousness in a particular kind of situation. The situations that trigger this…