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Ultradian

...tates as ultra rapid cycling , as this particular form of cycling is also described as a mixed state, and...ms are unable to capture the nature of this unique form of the Bipolar Disorder. Ultradian cycling is characterized by more than four mood states within a ...

Therapeutic gene modulation

...e of various stages, with a view to alleviate some form of ailment. It differs from gene therapy in that gene modulation seeks to alter the expression of an endogenous gene (perhaps through the introduction of a gene encoding a novel modulatory protein) whereas gene therapy concerns the introduction of ...

Telephone Triage

...dvice nurses”. Telephone triage utilizes an older form of technology (telephone lines) and thus, preceded telemedicine and telehealth. Telehealth is defined as the delivery of health related services and information via telecommunications technologies and is now the umbrella term describing all the possi...

Pre-conditioning

...general concept in which an entity is exposed to a form of some stress or stimulus in order to prepare that entity to be more resilient against the stimulus when and if the stimulus is encountered in the future. For example, a human may be exposed to artificially weakened virus in order to stimulate an an...

Proteopathy

...ted on an exogenous protein, typically a misfolded form of the same protein. In this way, the disease stat...ue extract from an afflicted donor. The best known form of such infectious (or transmissible) proteopathy is prion disease , which can be transmitted by ex...

Phantom pain

... entry zone (DREZ) lesioning. DREZ lesioning is a form of neurosurgery in which the wayward nociceptive neurons are destroyed. [1] See also Phantom eye syndrome Phantom limb References ^ a b c Vertosick, Frank T., Jr., M.D. (2000). "Slaying the Pha...

Personalized medicine

...l in 2002. For the last decade there has been some form of legislation which had been mired in the House of Representatives in the United States. The current bill is called the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act H.R. 493, S.358 aka GINA. It was passed in the House of Representatives 420-3 and app...

Orvietan

... wine and dissolved honey, but existed in powdered form too (sold in lead boxes). Patrizia Catellani and Renzo Console from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan analyzed 35 different recipes for mixing orvietan , published between 1655 and 1857. The number of ingredients varies from 9 to...

Nuclear medicine

...on while combined with food, inhalation in gaseous form or, rarely, injection of a radionuclide that has u...a-cameras employ lead or tungsten collimators to form an image on the crystal, accepting photons arriving perpendicular to the camera face, and rejecting ...

Medicine

... with bones and joints. Pharmacogenomics is a form of individualized medicine . PanVascular Medicine is an approach to deal with the problems of highly specialised but both, medical and economical inefficiently arranged human resources and medical equipment in today's vascular care facilities ...

Medical Laboratory Assistant

...n). Patient's details checked and matched on both form and sample (non-matching samples and/or forms rejected). Sample and form labelled with unique identifying number (UIN). Tests requested on form receipted onto UIN on comput...

Pathology

...hree to four years of postgraduate training in the form of a pathology residency. Training may be within two primary specialties, as recognized by the American Board of Pathology: Anatomic Pathology , and Clinical Pathology , each of which requires separate board certification. Many pathologists seek a ...

Hospital and Welfare Services Union

...Mental Hospital and Institutional Workers Union to form COHSE, The Confederation of Health Service Employ...d in 1993 COHSE amalgamated with NUPE and NALGO to form UNISON All For One History of COHSE Mick Carpenter Categories:Trade unions of the United Kingdom ...

Excoriation

...the skin by mechanical means, which appears in the form of a scratch or abrasion of the skin . It is commonly seen in other skin disorders causing itching/pruritus: dry skin, dermatitis , atopic dermatitis , scabies , etc. The condition is characteristic of a symptom of other illnesses like liver...

Episodic memory

.... Without the medial temporal lobe, one is able to form new procedural memories (such as playing the pia...neurological feature of autism is the ability to form semantic, but not episodic, memories ( Ben Shalom, 1993 ). The label " Amnesia " is most often give...

Craniofacial prosthesis

...etics are favored when they can better restore the form and function of the absent facial feature. Craniof...d as cosmetic because they replace the physical form and functional mechanics of the absent anatomy and serve a significant role in the emotional stab...

Cryostasis (clathrate hydrates)

... , N 2 , CO 2 , CH 4 , H 2 S, Ar, Kr, and Xe) will form a hydrate under some pressure-temperature conditions. [6] Live biological tissues can be saturated with the clathrate-forming gas(es) by diffusion or perfusion at the appropriate pressure in the range 1–50 bars at a temperature above clathrate-fo...

Depolarization-induced suppression of inhibition

...ely distributed in the brian. DSI is a very common form of short-term plasticity and thus needs to be mediated by a commonly found neurotransmitter. The use of endocannabinoids such as anandamide and 2-arachidonoyl glycerol in this method of signalling is quite logical, since both molecules can be syn...

Canadian Health Libraries Association

...r 1976 and agreed that there was enough support to form a Canadian health libraries association. No better name had been suggested and the agenda for this meeting notes, “It seems we are left with Canadian Health Libraries Association, the addition of ‘Sciences’ was not well received at the CASLIS meeting...

Body shaping

...ficulties. The masses of excess skin also make any form of exercise difficult. Many patients become reclusive and are hesitant to enter romantic or social relationships. Said one massive weight loss patient: “After I lost 155 pounds, (70 kg) it was like I had a size 26 skin hanging on my size 8 body.” [4...

Biotextile

...rying to develop new textiles so that the body can form new tissue around these devices so it’s not relying solely on synthetic foreign implanted material. One of Dr. Martin King's graduate students, Jessica Gluck, has demonstrated that viable and functioning liver cells can be grown on textile scaffolds....

Breath-holding spells

...breath-holding spells, may simply be a more severe form of the two most common types. This type generally begins as either a cyanotic or pallid spell that then is associated with seizure like activity. An EEG taken while the child is not having a spell is still generally normal. The diagnosis of a brea...

Automatic Positive Airway Pressure

...Pressure abbreviated APAP , is the most advanced form of treatment for sleep apnea . An APAP machine incorporates pressure sensors and a computer which continuously monitors the patient's breathing performance. It adjusts pressure continuously, increasing it when the user is attempting to breathe but c...

Artificial induction of immunity

... the controlled infection of a less lethal natural form of smallpox (known as Variola Minor) into a subjec...ing agent used, Variola Minor, was still an active form of smallpox and, although less potent, could still kill the inoculee or spread in its full form to o...

Allopathic medicine

...defines it as "[r]egular medicine, the traditional form of medical practice." [1] The Oxford English ...iscusses this historical pejorative usage: One form of verbal warfare used in retaliation by irregulars was the word "allopathy." ....... "Allopathy" an...