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Of or pertaining to the prevention and treatment of illness, and the preservation of physical and mental well-being, through the services provided by medical professionals.
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base increase at low levels
Medical; Medicine
A hearing aid signal-processing strategy to gradually raise the amplification of low frequencies at low-intensity levels.
Glanzmann thrombasthenia
Medical; Medicine
A hemorrhagic diathesis characterized by normal or prolonged bleeding time, normal coagulation time, defective clot retraction, and normal platelet count, but morphologic or ...
basal cell nevus
Medical; Medicine
A hereditary disease noted in infancy or adolescence, characterized by lesions of the eyelids, nose, cheeks, neck, and axillae, appearing as uneroded flesh-colored papules, some ...
lumbar hernia
Medical; Medicine
A hernia between the last rib and the iliac crest where the aponeurosis of the transversus muscle is covered only by the latissimus dorsi.
Bassini herniorrhaphy
Medical; Medicine
A herniorrhaphy for an indirect inguinal hernia repair; after reduction of the hernia, the sac is twisted, ligated, and cut off, then a new inguinal floor is made by uniting the ...
bassini operation
Medical; Medicine
A herniorrhaphy for an indirect inguinal hernia repair; after reduction of the hernia, the sac is twisted, ligated, and cut off, then a new inguinal floor is made by uniting the ...
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)
Medical; Medicine
A herpesvirus in the genus Lymphocryptovirus that causes infectious mononucleosis and is also found in cell cultures of Burkitt lymphoma; associated with nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
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