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Nursing home
A residential facility for persons with chronic illness or disability, particularly older people who have mobility and eating problems. Also called a convalescent home, long-term care facility
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- Scorbutic Pertaining to scurvy (scorbutus) or affected by it
- Immunization, mumps Mumps: See Immunization, MMR
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- Sunscreen A substance that blocks the effect of the sun's harmful rays. Using lotions that contain sunscreens can…
- Reagent A substance used to produce a chemical reaction to detect, measure, produce, etc. other substances
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- Phalangeal Pertaining to a phalanx (a bone in the finger or toe)
- Hormone, estrogenic A female hormone produced by the ovaries (or an equivalent hormone synthesized in the laboratory). Estrogen…