Pharmacy

Pharmacy

1) The science and practice of the preparation and dispensing of medicinal drugs. 2) A store where medicinal drugs are dispensed and sold.

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culture negative endocarditis

Health care; Pharmacy

Describes a patient in whom a clinical diagnosis of infective endocarditis is likely, but blood cultures do not yield a pathogen.

Destroying or severing the axon so that electrical impulses are impeded along the nerve sheath or across the nerve synapse. Axonal damage is not reversible and leads to long-term disability and the ...

demyelination

Health care; Pharmacy

Destruction of myelin in the spinal cord and brain leading to the formation of plaques that impair communication between neurons. Demyelination is classically found in the central nervous system of ...

aneuploid

Health care; Pharmacy

Deviation by a whole number in the total number of chromosomes in a cell compared to normal (46 in humans).

dysentery

Health care; Pharmacy

Diarrhea characterized by blood, mucus, and leukocytes in the stool with tenesmus and fever.

discordant results

Health care; Pharmacy

Different outcome status for two or more individuals, as in a pair-matched case–control study, when one subject in a pair is exposed and the other individual is unexposed to the risk factor of ...