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Primary Prevention
PRIMARY PREVENTION Primary prevention generally involves the prevention of diseases and conditions before their biological onset. This can be done in a variety of ways, such as preventing environmental exposures, improving human resistance to disease, or education to diminish risk-taking behaviors.... Read more |
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Transverse Myelitis
Transverse myelitis Definition Transverse myelitis is an inflammation of the full width of the spinal cord that disrupts communication to the muscles, resulting in pain , weakness, and muscle paralysis. Description The symptoms of transverse myelitis are due to damage and/or destruction of the... Read more |
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Frank Morgan
Frank Morgan Saxophonist Impelled by Jazz as Youth Jeopardized Career at Onset Triumphed After Prison Selected discography Sources Read more |
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birth
birth or labor, delivery of the fetus by the viviparous mammal. Birth is also known as parturition. Human birth normally occurs about 280 days after onset of the last menstrual period before conception. The Stages of Labor Onset of labor, the first stage, is heralded by contractions of the... Read more |
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dormancy
dormancy (hypobiosis) A resting condition with reduced metabolic rate. This is found in non-germinating seeds and non-growing buds. Dormancy is predictive if it protects the organism against adverse conditions and occurs before their onset. Predictive dormancy most commonly occurs in environments... Read more |
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Precocious puberty
Precocious puberty Definition Precocious puberty is sexual development before the age of eight in girls, and age 10 in boys. Description Precocious pubertyoften begins before age eight in girls, triggering the development of breasts and hair under the arms and in the... Read more |
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turbulence
turbulence state of violent or agitated behavior in a fluid. Turbulent behavior is characteristic of systems of large numbers of particles, and its unpredictability and randomness has long thwarted attempts to fully understand it, even with such powerful tools as statistical mechanics . Although... Read more |
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Tourette Syndrome
Tourette syndrome Definition Tourette syndrome (TS) is an inherited neurological disorder that typically appears in childhood. The main features of TS are repeated movements and vocalizations called tics. TS can also be associated with behavioral and developmental problems. Description Tourette... Read more |
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Antidiabetic Drugs
Antidiabetic Drugs Definition Antidiabetic drugs are medicines that help control blood sugar levels in people with diabetes mellitus (sugar diabetes). Purpose Diabetes may be divided into type I and type II, formerly termed juvenile onset or insulin-dependent, and maturity onset or non... Read more |
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Latent Period
LATENT PERIOD A "latent period" is the lag time between exposure to a disease-causing agent and the onset of the disease the agent causes. In infectious diseases it is often identical to the incubation period, but not always. A disease may have incubated but remains latent, or dormant, within the... Read more |
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