Home > Industry/Domain > Health care
Health care
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.
45Categories 457930Terms
Add a new termContributors in Health care
Health care > Medicine 
canada turpentine
Medical; Medicine
A yellowish liquid resin from the balsam fir, Abies balsamea (family Pinaceae); contains kinene and bornyl acetate; used for mounting histologic specimens and as a cement for ...
vena iliolumbalis
Medical; Medicine
Accompanying the artery of the same name, anastomosing with the lumbar and deep circumflex iliac veins, and emptying into the internal iliac vein.
iliolumbar vein
Medical; Medicine
Accompanying the artery of the same name, anastomosing with the lumbar and deep circumflex iliac veins, and emptying into the internal iliac vein.
materia alba
Medical; Medicine
Accumulation or aggregation of microorganisms, desquamated epithelial cells, blood cells, and food debris loosely adherent to surfaces of plaques, teeth, gingiva or dental ...
feedback activation
Medical; Medicine
Activation on an enzyme by an end product of a biochemical pathway in which that enzyme plays a part. For example, the activation of factors VIII and V by thrombin during blood ...
amniotic band sequence
Medical; Medicine
Activity comprising early rupture of the amnion with formation of bands that adhere to or compress parts of the fetus, resulting in a wide variety of anomalies: craniofacial ...
Sub-categories
- Arthritis (5830)
- Behavioral science (517)
- Cancer treatment (31937)
- Childbirth (66)
- Chinese medicine ()
- Chronic diseases (64)
- Dementia (39)
- Dentistry (3202)
- Dermatology (116)
- Diabetes treatment (2975)
- Diseases (22470)
- Drug rehabilitation (4949)
- Flu prevention & treatment (1568)
- Genetic disorders (76130)
- Hair loss (2037)
- Health care organizations (30)
- Health care regulations (244)
- Heart disease (4126)
- Hematology (3561)
- High blood pressure (205)
- Hip surgery (818)
- Hospitals (13808)
- Immunization (12)
- Incurable diseases (271)
- Kidney disease (2189)
- Leg surgery (0)
- Leukemia (2506)
- Managed care (1529)
- Medicine (135738)
- Nursing homes (390)
- Nutrition (2978)
- Ophtalmology (51)
- Optometry (16172)
- Organ transplantation (431)
- Orthopedics (1829)
- Pharmacy (22398)
- Podiatry (1666)
- Psychiatry (11523)
- Sexual health (6275)
- Sleep disorder (2897)
- Surgery (143)
- Tuberculosis (3748)
- Vaccines (2878)
- Viruses (400)
- Women’s health (16059)