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Pharmacy, compounding
A facility that both makes and sells prescription drugs. A compounding pharmacy can often concoct drug formulas that are specially tailored to patients: for example, liquid versions of medications normally available only in pill form, for…
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- Leukemia, acute Cancer of the blood cells (leukemia) that progresses rapidly, as opposed to chronic leukemia which progresses…
- Physician, family A physician who is educated and trained in family practice. 'Family physicians possess unique attitudes…
- Disease, Hansen See: Hansen disease
- Atopic Prone to allergies or characterized by allergy
- Bipolar disease Manic-depressive disease. See: Bipolar disorder
- Fracture, transverse A fracture in which the break is across the bone, at a right angle to the long axis of the bone. NTER> A…
- Test, CA 125 See: CA 125
- Disease, Stein-Leventhal >Irregular or no periods >Acne >Obesity, and >Excess hair growth. All women with PCO have irregular or no…
- Papilla, anal See: Anal papilla
- Osteoblast A cell that makes bone. It does so by producing a matrix that then becomes mineralized. Bone mass is…
- Insufficiency, pancreatic See: Pancreatic insufficiency