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Medicine

The science and art of healing that employs a variety of health care practices to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.

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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.

A hemorrhagic diathesis characterized by normal or prolonged bleeding time, normal coagulation time, defective clot retraction, and normal platelet count, but morphologic or functional abnormality of ...

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 becoming ...

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 edge of the internal ...

bassini operation

Medical; Medicine

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.