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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An adaptation to a test statistic when a continuous probability distribution is used to estimate a discrete probability distribution; eg, using the chi-square distribution for analysing contingency ...

Apraxia

Health care; Pharmacy

Cardinal symptom of Alzheimer's disease; inability to carry out a motor task in the absence of impaired motor function.

B-type natriuretic peptide

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B-type natriuretic peptide is a 32-amino-acid polypeptide secreted by the ventricles in response to excessive myocyte stretching. Elevated levels are typically seen in patients with left ventricular ...

Cyanosis

Health care; Pharmacy

Bluish tint to the skin or mucous membranes because of lack of oxygen.

Aortic stenosis

Health care; Pharmacy

Aortic stenosis is the obstruction of blood flow across the aortic valve. This disorder has several etiologies: congenital unicuspid or bicuspid valve, rheumatic fever, and degenerative calcific ...

Acute pain

Health care; Pharmacy

Can be a useful physiologic process warning individuals of disease states and potentially harmful situations. Severe, unremitting, undertreated, acute pain, when it outlives its biologic usefulness, ...