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Attenuate
To weaken, dilute, thin, reduce, weaken, diminish. The use of 'attenuate' in medicine is not new. In the 16th century, eating dried figs was claimed to attenuate the body fluids. Now 'attenuate' refers to procedures that weaken an agent of…
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- Tonic-clonic seizure The classic type of epileptic seizure consisting of two phases to a tonic-clonic seizure -- the tonic phase…
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