Medicine has its own unique language. Well before matriculating, the medical school applicant is bombarded with a litany of terms and acronyms. Being exposed to the nomenclature can help to ease the ...

A new app has been created to help patients who speak Innu-aimun communicate with their English-speaking health care providers. The Innu Medical Glossary, designed by Memorial University researchers ...

Glossary states sex is not fixed, binary The primary teaching hospital of Boston University’s medical school, recently updated its “Glossary for Culture Transformation” to include dozens ...

Every day it seems a biotech company releases data for a promising new drug that it hopes will cure some dreaded disease, but has been studied only in a handful of people so far. Or a big university ...

Confabulation: A memory disorder where the patient fabricates unusual thoughts about oneself or the society without any intention to cheat. Delirium: Confused thought process and loss of awareness ...

Prenatal test: A test done before the birth of the baby. Trimester of pregnancy: Pregnancy is divided into 3 trimesters each of around 3 months. The first trimester is for 12 weeks, the second is from ...

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