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Therapy
The treatment of disease. Therapy is synonymous with treatment, as for example: > >Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is treatment that suppresses a retrovirus such as HIV. >Brachytherapy is treatment given by placing radioactive material…
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- Abraham-man Also abram-man. One of a class of beggars who once wandered over England after the dissolution of the…
- Ulna The larger of the two long bones within the forearm. (The smaller one is the radius). The ulna is on the same…
- Coitus Sexual union of a male and a female; also called sexual intercourse. Coitus begins when the male inserts his…
- Disease, subclinical An illness that stays below the surface of clinical detection. A subclinical disease has no recognizable…
- Gorlin syndrome Name sometimes used for the LEOPARD syndrome which Dr. Robert J. Gorlin and colleagues recognized and…
- Hemidiaphragm, elevated See: Elevated hemidiaphragm
- LQTS The long QT syndrome. See Long QT syndrome
- Bloody nose The nose is a part of the body that is very rich in blood vessels (vascular) and is situated in a vulnerable…
- Pelvis, female See: Female pelvis
- Infraspinatus muscle >The infraspinatus muscle; >The teres minor muscle, which (like the infraspinatus muscle) helps in the…
- Viral myocarditis See: Myocarditis, viral