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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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Bacillaceae

Medical; Medicine

A family of aerobic or facultatively anaerobic, spore-forming, ordinarily motile bacteria (order Eubacteriales) containing gram-positive rods. These organisms are ...

Enterobacteriaceae

Medical; Medicine

A family of aerobic, facultatively anaerobic, nonsporeforming bacteria (order Eubacteriales) containing gram-negative rods. Some species are nonmotile, and nonmotile variants of ...

Lactobacillaceae

Medical; Medicine

A family of anaerobic to facultatively anaerobic, ordinarily nonmotile bacteria (order Eubacteriales) containing straight or curved, gram-positive rods that usually occur singly ...

Bartonellaceae

Medical; Medicine

A family of bacteria that currently includes the genus Bartonella. Based on S16 rRNA studies, the former genera of Rochalimaea and Grahamella have been merged with the genus ...

Tabanidae

Medical; Medicine

A family of bloodsucking flies that includes the genera Tabanus (horsefly) and Chrysops (deerfly and mango fly), which are involved in transmission of several blood-borne ...

Bacteroidaceae

Medical; Medicine

A family of obligate anaerobic (microaerophilic species may occur), non-spore-forming bacteria (order Eubacteriales) containing gram-negative rods that vary in size from minute, ...

Babesiidae

Medical; Medicine

A family of protozoan parasites (class Sporozoea, order Piroplasmida) occurring in the red blood cells of various mammals. The organisms, which are piriform, round, or oval, ...