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The most complete online medical dictionary: 16,436 terms covering anatomy, physiology, pathologies, diagnostic exams, pharmacology and every clinical specialty.
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Activities of daily living (ADLs)
The things we normally do in daily living including any daily activity we perform for self-care (such as feeding ourselves, bathing, dressing, grooming), work, homemaking, and leisure. The ability or inability to perform ADLs can be used…
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Show more- Cartilage Firm, rubbery tissue that cushions bones at joints. A more flexible kind of cartilage connects muscles with…
- Headache, febrile A headache associated with fever. Because this can sometimes indicate inflammation of the brain, as in…
- Dorsal The back or posterior side of a structure. "Dorsum" is the Latin word for the back. Something pertaining to…
- Osteomalacia Softening of bone, particularly in the sense of bone weakened by demineralization (the loss of mineral) and…
- Waardenburg, Petrus Johannes See: Stickler syndrome.
- Torre syndrome See: Muir-Torre syndrome
- Biological therapy Biological therapy: Treatment to stimulate or restore the ability of the immune (defense) system to fight…
- MEDVAC Acronym for medical evacuation. MEDVAC typically refers to a team that is organized with the skills for the…
- Vincent infection This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…
- Marie-Strumpell disease A synonym for ankylosing spondylitis. Named for the French neurologist Pierre Marie (1853-1940) and the…
- Truncate To shorten, to cut short. A malformation (birth defect) may truncate a limb. A mutation may create a stop…
- Syphilis test, RPR Rapid plasma reagin, a blood test for syphilis that looks for an antibody that is present in the bloodstream…