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Ultradian

...ependent of illumination factors. The descriptive term ultradian is used in sleep research to describe ...(having four or more mood episodes in a year). The term rapid cycling was defined prior to discovery of Ultradian mood states. Thus it can be misleading to ...

Telephone Triage

...ommunications technologies and is now the umbrella term describing all the possible variations of healthca... have sprung up over the last decade. In 1990, the term "telephone triage" appeared on Medline indexes--a formal acknowledgement of this new subspecialty. ...

Surrogate markers

...A surrogate marker (or surrogate end point ) is term used in medical research for a change to the human body that is believe to be necessary to an eventual outcome or end point . [1] Surrogate markers are used when it is unethical to look for the end point (e.g., death) in the experiment, or whe...

Private prescription

...vate prescription is a United Kingdom Medical term that refers to a prescription funded by the patient, rather than the National Health Service . Unlike NHS prescriptions, a private prescription can be written on any piece of paper and a doctor may also write their own private prescriptions - thi...

Ramón Carrillo

...n a year before than Juan Domingo Perón 's second term become ended with a coup d'état (September 16, 1955 . In spite of his long disconnection, he was to remain outside of the country, first in the United States and then in Brazil. Exiled, seriously ill (insufficiently treated hypertension), politic...

Personalized medicine

...e in its accuracy, efficacy, safety and speed. The term emerged in the late 1990s with progress in the Human Genome Project . Research findings over the past decade, or so, in biomedical research have unfolded a series of new, predictive sciences that share the appendage -omics ( genomics , proteomi...

Medicine

...ugh its study , diagnosis , and treatment . The term is derived from the Latin ars medicina which...sciences and biomedicine . Broadly speaking, the term 'Medicine' today refers to the fields of clinical medicine , medical research and surgery , ther...

Pathology

...gans , tissues , cells and bodily fluids . The term encompasses both the medical specialty which uses tissues and body fluids to obtain clinically useful information, as well as the related scientific study of disease processes. Contents 1 History 1.1 Origins of gross pathology ...

Heterophile

... since May 2007 . Heterophile is an alternate term to heterosexual and once competed with it for currency, but only did so successfully in Scandinavia. It is a parallel concept to homophile In Scandinavia and Finland, the word heterofil is a gender-neutral term, like "heterosexual" in Canada...

Fat transfer

...15 percent of injected fat surviving over the long term whereas transplanting live fat via surgery resulted in a 75 percent survival rate. References ^ Neuber, F. Fettransplantation. Chir Kongr Verhandl Dtsch Ges Chir 1893:22; 66 ^ Czerny, V. Plastischer Ersatz der Brustdruse durch ein...

Disease causative agent

The term disease causative agent usually refers to a biol... pathogen that causes a disease. Technically, the term can also refer to a toxin or toxic chemical that causes illness, however....

Clean margin

A clean margin is a medical term referring to the attempt in surgical oncology to resect a tumor with no portion of the malignant growth on microscopic examination by a pathologist extending past a set delineation known as the 'tumor margin'. [1] This is an important issue i...

Biomedicine

...icine , also known as theoretical medicine , is a term that comprises the knowledge and research which is more or less in common to the fields of medicine , veterinary medicine , odontology and fundamental biosciences such as biochemistry , cell biology , genetics , zoology , botanics and mi...

Angor animi

...d also angina pectoris sine dolore [2] ), is a term used in medicine to describe a person's perception that they are in fact dying. Most cases of angor animi are found in patients suffering from acute coronary syndrom (cardiac related chest pain) such as angina . It is, however, occasionaly...

Acute care

...ble, with appropriate discharge instructions. The term is generally associated with care rendered in an e...department, ambulatory care clinic, or other short term stay facility. An important aspect of the current health care crisis in the US is the result of the ...

Allopathic medicine

See also: Allopathy Allopathic medicine is term applied by homeopathists to the ordinary or tradit...cal practice. Many medical dictionaries define the term allopathic medicine as the treatment of disease using conventional medical therapies, as opposed t...

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 discove...