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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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Central limit theorem
Health care; Pharmacy
A theorem that states that the distribution of means is approximately normal if the sample size is large enough (n 30), regardless of the underlying distribution of the original measurements.
Dose
Health care; Pharmacy
* The amount of active ingredient that the patient takes each time he or she self-administers the drug product. * The amount of drug administered to the patient as a single event.
Albuminuria
Health care; Pharmacy
A condition where a large amount of albumin (>300 mg/day) is present in the urine, often indicating glomerular damage in the kidney.
Practise philosophy
Health care; Pharmacy
* A set of values that guides behaviours associated with a professional practice. * Aids the practitioner in making clinical, ethical, and management decisions and is used by a practitioner to ...
Short stature
Health care; Pharmacy
A broad term describing a condition commonly defined by a physical height that is more than two standard deviations below the population mean and lower than the third percentile for height in a ...
Retinopathy
Health care; Pharmacy
A disorder of the retina of the eye; among diabetics the disorder arises from damage to the small blood vessels of the retina and can lead to blindness.
