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Anticipatory grief
The normal mourning that occurs when a patient or family is expecting a death. Anticipatory grief has many of the same symptoms as those experienced after a death has occurred. It includes all of the thinking, feeling, cultural, and social…
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Show more- Familial Parkinson disease type 4 A familial form of Parkinson disease inherited in an autosomal dominant manner due to a gene on chromosome…
- Childhood liver cancer Primary cancer of the liver (cancer that starts in the liver) in children, a relatively rare malignancy in…
- Scrub in To wash the hands and forearms very thoroughly, as for surgery. To scrub in implies the use of a brush (and…
- Cognition The process of knowing and, more precisely, the process of being aware, knowing, thinking, learning and…
- Brain cancer Brain cancer: Cancer of the central information processing center of the body. Tumors in the brain can be…
- Water blister A blister with clear watery contents that is not purulent (does not contain pus) and is not sanguineous (does…
- Hypo- Prefix meaning 'low, under, beneath, down, below normal' as in hypocalcemia (low calcium in the blood)…
- Papilloma A small solid benign tumor with a clear-cut border that projects above the surrounding tissue
- Stroke index A cardiodynamic measure. Stroke volume is the amount of blood the left ventricle ejects in one beat, measured…
- Eye melanoma See: Intraocular melanoma
- Leukemia, blastic phase of Leukemia, blastic phase of: A stage in which 30 percent or more of the cells in the bone marrow or blood are…
- Epicardium The inner layer of the pericardium, a conical sac of fibrous tissue that surrounds the heart and the roots of…