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Carbolic acid
A synonym of phenol. In dilute solution, an antimicrobial agent. First used to clean wounds and dress them by the surgeon Joseph Lister who reported in 1867 that his wards at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary had remained free of sepsis, then a…
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- Vitamin B5 Vitamin B5 is pantothenic acid, one of the less well known B vitamins, perhaps because it is widely…
- Memory, anterograde See: Anterograde memory
- Pseudomonas cepacia Bacterium now known as Burkholderia cepacia. See: Burkholderia cepacia
- Hypoproteinemic hypertrophic gastropathy See: Giant hypertrophic gastritis
- Egg Ovum (plural: ova).
- Back pain, low Back pain, low: Pain in the lower back area that can relate to problems with the lumbar spine, the discs…
- Blender experiment See: Hershey-Chase experiment
- American Medical Association : The AMA. The AMA's mission statement proclaims: 'We are the Voice of the American Medical Profession. 'We…
- Tension, intravenous The pressure of the blood within a vein, the venous pressure
- Plano In practical optics, a surface that has been worked flat
- Mucolipidosis One of a group of inherited storage diseases in which both lipids and substances called mucopolysaccharides…