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Agonist maintenance treatment
See: Methadone treatment program
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- Biliary atresia Congenital absence or closure of the major bile ducts, the ducts that drain bile from the liver. Biliary…
- Suicide, assisted See: Assisted suicide
- Bifid Cleft (split) in two. See, for example, bifid uvula
- Cox-1 inhibitor An agent that inhibits the action of the enzyme cox-1 (cyclooxygenase-1). The common anti-inflammatory drugs…
- Patho- Pathology, with emphasis on the pathophysiological and pathogenetic mechanisms underlying human disease.
- TEE Transesophageal echocardiography. A diagnostic test which employs ultrasound waves to make images of the…
- Syndrome, giant platelet Nard-Soulier syndrome): This condition is a primary problem of platelets in which the platelets lack the…
- Drug activity A measure of the physiological response a drug produces. A less active drug produces less response (and visa…
- Tetraphocomelia-thrombocytopenia syndrome See TAR syndrome
- Brill-Zinsser disease Recrudescence of epidemic typhus years after the initial attack. The agent that causes epidemic typhus…