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Bundling
A term employed by the FDA (the US Food & Drug Administration) that refers to the inclusion of multiple devices or multiple indications for use for a device in a single premarket submission, including products subject to the device and…
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Show more- Cancer, myeloma A bone marrow cancer involving a type of white blood cell called a plasma (or myeloma) cell. The tumor cells…
- Right-handed The preferential use of the right hand for most fine manual tasks. Approximately 90% of the population is…
- Hospitalist A hospital-based general physician. Hospitalists assume the care of hospitalized patients in the place of…
- Disease, pulseless See: Takayasu disease
- Soft sore See: Chancroid
- Contact healing Another name for the alternative medicine practice of laying on of hands. See: Laying on of hands. See also…
- Fong disease See Nail-patella syndrome
- Episclera A thin membrane that covers the sclera (the white of the eye). 'Epi-' is a prefix from the Greek that means…
- Ear, slanted An ear that is slanted more than usual. Technically, an ear is slanted when the angle of the slope of the…
- Hyperostosis Overgrowth of bone. Hyperostosis is a nonspecific term that does not refer to any particular condition
- Hypervolemic Pertaining to hypervolemia, an abnormal increase in blood volume. For example, hypervolemic hyponatremia…
- Liminal In neurolgy, at the threshold of perception to a sensory stimulus. In other words, just barely perceptible to…