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Cardiac rehabilitation
A program for people with heart disease designed to reduce future heart risks. Cardiac rehabilitation usually consists of nutritional counseling; management of lipid levels, hypertension, weight, and diabetes; smoking cessation…
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Show more- Accessory dwelling unit (ADU) A separate housing arrangement within a single-family home. The ADU is defined by Medicare as a…
- CAPD Central auditory processing disorder
- Cyclooxygenase-2 See: Cox-2
- Assignment of benefits An arrangement by which a patient requests that their health benefit payments be made directly to a…
- Critical incident stress management Cross-shaped. "Cruciate" comes from the Latin "crux" which means "cross". (That is the crux of this matter)…
- Dissection, axillary Surgery in which the axilla (the armpit) is opened -- to 'dissect' means to 'cut apart' -- in order to…
- Royal Society, the Nerable scientific society in England which in 1665 published one of the first 2 scientific journals in the…
- Prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP) An enzyme that is normally present only in small amounts in the blood, but that may be found at higher…
- Adamantine In dentistry, relating to the enamel of the teeth. Adamantine comes from the Greek and Latin word adamas…
- Senile 1. Pertaining to old age. 2. Pertaining to the physical decline associated with old age. 3. Pertaining to the…
- Treatment, PUVA See: PUVA
- Enophthalmos Sunken eyeball.