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- Audiometry The measurement of hearing.
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- AC Abbreviation for a.c. (ante cibum on a prescription); acromioclavicular (shoulder joint); antecubital (crook…
- Nocebo A negative placebo effect as, for example, when patients taking medications experience adverse side effects…
- Phrenology The study of variations in size, shape, and proportion of the cranium. Phrenology was a pseudoscience of the…
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