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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Diafiltration

Medical; Medicine

Diafiltration is a unit operation that incorporates ultrafiltration membranes to remove salts or other microsolutes from a solution. Small molecules are separated from a solution while retaining ...

APC, or atrial premature complex (or beat) is a beat that arise in the atria of the heart from outside the normal mechanism of heartbeats. It's very common and doesn't portend any bad prognosis. It ...

Protein

Medical; Medicine

Any of a class of nitrogenous organic compounds that consist of large molecules composed of one or more long chains of amino acids and are and essential part of all living organisms, esp. as ...

Glucocorticoid

Medical; Medicine

Any of a group of corticosteroids that are involved in the metabolism of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats and have anti-inflammatory activity

Mutation

Medical; Medicine

The changing of the structure of a gene, resulting in a variant form that may be transmitted to subsequent generations, caused by the alteration of single base units in DNA, or the deletion, ...