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United States Department of Health and Human Services, Radiation Emergency Medical Management
The thin muscle below the lungs and heart that separates the chest from the abdomen.
Industry:Health care
A condition in which multiple fibromas develop. Fibromas are tumors (usually benign) that affect connective tissue.
Industry:Health care
In medicine, refers to the inability to have an erection of the penis adequate for sexual intercourse. Also called erectile dysfunction.
Industry:Health care
A person who has a license that gives them the legal power to witness the signing of documents, to certify that documents are real, and to take statements made under oath.
Industry:Health care
A system in which medical doctors and other healthcare professionals (such as nurses, pharmacists, and therapists) treat symptoms and diseases using drugs, radiation, or surgery. Also called allopathic medicine, biomedicine, conventional medicine, mainstream medicine, and Western medicine.
Industry:Health care
A method of delivering fluids and drugs directly into the abdominal cavity through a thin tube. Also called intraperitoneal infusion.
Industry:Health care
In medicine, a very simple microorganism that infects cells and may cause disease. Because viruses can multiply only inside infected cells, they are not considered to be alive.
Industry:Health care
A type of soft tissue sarcoma that begins in fibrous tissue, which holds bones, muscles, and other organs in place.
Industry:Health care
