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Co-payment
A payment made by an individual who has health insurance, usually at the time a service is received, to offset some of the cost of care. Co-payments are a common feature of HMO (Health Maintenance Organization) and PPO (Preferred Provider…
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- Urea breath test (UBT) The urea breath test (UBT) is a procedure for diagnosing the presence of a bacterium, Helicobacter pylori (H…
- Extracellular Outside a cell. As opposed to intracellular, meaning within a cell
- Syndrome, Sjogren-Larsson The Sjogren-Larsson syndrome is a genetic (inherited) disease usually characterized by a triad of clinical…
- Colitis, mucus A common gastrointestinal disorder involving an abnormal condition of gut contractions (motility)…
- Fear of sexual intercourse An abnormal and persistent fear of male-female sexual intercourse. Sufferers of this fear experience undue…
- Quarantine The period of isolation decreed to control the spread of infectious disease. Before the era of antibiotics…
- Environment The sum of the total of the elements, factors and conditions in the surroundings which may have an impact on…
- Anonymous reporting In public health, anonymous reporting permits the acquisition of certain data such as the proportion of…
- Drain, Jackson Pratt See: JP drain
- Domagk, Gerhard German physician and chemist (1895-1946) who discovered the first sulfa drug, prontosil, which ushered in the…
- Syndrome, Shulman's (Eosinophilic fasciitis) A disease which leads to inflammation and thickening of the skin and fascia. (The fascia is a lining tissue…