Medicine

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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Placebo

Medical; Medicine

A substance that is made to look like a medicine but contains no medical ingredients and is used in medical research.

Antiseptic

Medical; Medicine

A substance that kills germs or keeps them from multiplying is known as antiseptic and is an antimicrobial substance.

Waksman

Medical; Medicine

American scientist who in 1888 discovered the first drug for treating tuberculosis and used word antibiotic to describe this drug.

Hyperopia

Medical; Medicine

The condition of the eye where incoming rays of light reach the retina before they converge into a focused image.

Myopia

Medical; Medicine

A visual defect in which distant objects appear blurred because their images are focused in front of the retina rather than on it; nearsightedness.

Astigmatism

Medical; Medicine

An error of refraction in the eye so that rays of light in different meridians cannot be brought to a focus together on the retina.

A bleeding time test in which a sphygmomanometer is inflated to 40 mm Hg around the upper arm, a 5-mm deep incision is made on the flexor surface of the forearm, and the time is measured to cessation ...