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Child abuse, physical
Child abuse, physical: Next to child neglect, physical abuse is the second most frequently reported form of child abuse, accounting for 25% of all cases of child abuse. Physical child abuse is physical injury inflicted upon the child with…
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Show more- Progressive Increasing in scope or severity. Advancing. Going forward. In medicine, a disease that is progressive is…
- Sleep restriction therapy A type of therapy in which the number of hours of sleep are restricted. Sleep restriction therapy is used in…
- Cellulitus Common misspelling of cellulitis
- Myocardium The heart muscle.
- Shot, flu The flu (influenza) vaccine is recommended annually (each year) for persons at high risk for serious…
- Gerstmann-Straussler disease See: Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome
- Surgeon A physician who treats disease, injury, or deformity by operative or manual methods. A medical doctor…
- Pelvic exam An examination of the organs of the female reproductive system. In a pelvic exam, a speculum (an instrument…
- Pasteurization A method of treating food by heating it to a certain point to kill pathogenic (disease-causing) organisms but…
- Tiredness See: Tired
- Scan, computerized tomography Pictures of structures within the body created by a computer that takes the data from multiple X-ray images…
- Taenia saginata The beef tapeworm. The most common of the big tapeworms that parasitizes people, contracted from infected raw…