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Ultradian

...to generational morbidity. Both twins studies, and general population studies show that there is an increased...nce of developing a Bipolar Disorder when either a general mood disorder or a specific Bipolar disorder is present in family members. Further research is being...

Thymocyte

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Réseau Sentinelles

...k of 1 260 volunteer “médecins généralistes”, or general practitioners , working throughout the metropolitan regions of France (2% of the total general practitioners in these regions). Its goal is to provide clinical surveillance in France for 14 he...

Pre-conditioning

Pre-conditioning is a 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 artific...

Personalized medicine

..., the regulators, the payors, the patients and the general public Pharmaceutical industry The pharma...apeutics will cater for particular sub-sets of the general population. Another reason for the scepticism of the pharmaceutical industry is the threat to exist...

Patient trade-off

...pective of the risk for waning sexual function. In general the phenomenon of conceptual trade-off is poorly understood. The trade-off between the decreased risk of survival and the increased probability of intact quality of life is one such problem. Access to valid empirical information is crucial for such d...

Mumijo

...le and Avicenna as a remedy with antiseptic and general stimulant properties used in Caucasus mountains . Most scientists agree that people observed wounded animals frequenting caves with mumijo and so discovered the substance. Similar substances are used for medicinal purposes throughout Tibet. A lot o...

Nuclear medicine

...ch is a focal increase in radio-accumulation, or a general increase in radio-accumulation throughout the physiological system. Some disease processes result in the exclusion of a tracer, resulting in the appearance of a 'cold-spot'. Many tracer complexes have been developed in order to image or treat many di...

Medical writing

...g documents about drugs, devices and biologics for general audiences,and specific audiences such as professional healthcare audiences. These documents include monographs about a newly launched drug for sales representatives, data presentations at medical congresses, medical journal articles for nurses, physi...

Medicine

...ralleled by a similar shift in European society in general - see Copernicus 's rejection of Ptolemy 's theo...d questions about each major body system in order: general (such as weight loss), endocrine, cardio-respiratory, etc. Next comes the actual physical examinatio...

Pathology

...e ways to disease processes. [8] Elucidation of general principles underlying pathologic processes, such a...as biopsies submitted by non- surgeons such as general internists , medical subspecialists , dermatologists , and interventional radiologists . Cyto...

Goodsall's rule

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Body shaping

...g operation can require seven to 10 hours under general anesthesia , blood transfusions and often, anoth...to three surgical stages , with the patient under general anesthesia. But if the patient is a smoker, has a history of deep venous thrombosis or clotting di...

Arterial stiffness

...al., Circulation. 2002; 106: 2085–2090) and in the general population (Mattace-Raso et al. Circulation. 2006;...r, at present, the role of measurement of PWV as a general clinical tool remains to be established....

Allopathic medicine

...in a deprecatory manner. Medical dictionaries and general usage dictionaries also give varying accounts of the meaning of allopathy . Some dictionaries define allopathic medicine as conventional medicine. Stedman's Illustrated Medical Dictionary defines it as "[r]egular medicine, the traditional form of ...

Abtissue pathology

Abtissue pathology is a general term for a disease which, through disabling the immune system and changing the chemical balance of the nervous system , makes the brain react as if there were an internal organ disfunction or massive internal bleeding . Abtissue pathology was di...