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Double minutes ( DMs ) are small fragments of extrachromosomal DNA , which have been observed in a large number of human tumors including breast, lung, ovary, colon, and most notably, neuroblastoma . They are a manifestation of gene amplification as a result of chromothripsis , [ 1 ] during the development of tumors, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_minute |
The Bidhan Chandra Roy Award is an award instituted in 1962 in memory of Dr. B. C. Roy by the Medical Council of India . It is presented by the President of India in New Delhi every year on July 1, National Doctors' Day . It is also the highest honour that can be achieved by a doctor in India.
The award is given annua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._B._C._Roy_Award |
Dr. Lucy Dupuy Montz House is a historical building in Warsaw, Kentucky that was the location of Lucy Dupuy Montz home residence and dental practice. Montz was Kentucky's first woman dentist. [ 2 ] In 1978, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places . [ 3 ]
Warsaw Historic District (Warsaw, Ke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Lucy_Dupuy_Montz_House |
The Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research is given annually by Johnson & Johnson to honor the work of an active scientist in academia, industry or a scientific institute in the field of biomedical research. It was established in 2004 and perpetuates the memory of Paul Janssen , the founder of Janssen Pharmaceu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Paul_Janssen_Award_for_Biomedical_Research |
DrSmile is a dentistry brand by German startup Urban Technology GmbH based in Berlin .
DrSmile was founded in 2016 in Berlin by Jens Urbaniak and Christopher von Wedemeyer. Urbaniak worked for Rocket Internet and is a co-founder of Go Butler, and von Wedemeyer previously worked as an investment banking analyst. [ 1 ] ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DrSmile |
The Dravet Syndrome Foundation (DSF) is a volunteer -run, non-profit organization based in the United States. The mission of the foundation is to raise research funds for Dravet's syndrome and related epilepsies , while providing support to affected individuals and families. The Dravet Syndrome Foundation is listed as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravet_Syndrome_Foundation |
DreamLab was a volunteer computing Android and iOS app launched in 2015 by Imperial College London and the Vodafone Foundation . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was discontinued on 2nd April 2025.
The app currently helps to research cancer , [ 3 ] COVID-19 , new drugs and tropical cyclones. [ 4 ] To do this, DreamLab accesses part of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DreamLab |
A drop attack is a sudden fall without loss of consciousness . Drop attacks stem from diverse mechanisms, including orthopedic causes (for example, leg weakness and knee instability ), hemodynamic causes (for example, transient vertebrobasilar insufficiency , a type of interruption of blood flow to the brain), and neur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_attack |
Drug eluting implants encompass a wide range of bioactive implants that can be placed in or near a tissue to provide a controlled, sustained or on demand release of drug while overcoming barriers associated with traditional oral and intravenous drug administration , such as limited bioavailability , metabolism, and tox... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug-eluting_implant |
A drug-eluting stent (DES) is a tube made of a mesh-like material used to treat narrowed arteries in medical procedures both mechanically (by providing a supporting scaffold inside the artery) and pharmacologically (by slowly releasing a pharmaceutical compound). A DES is inserted into a narrowed artery using a deliver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug-eluting_stent |
Drug-induced amnesia is amnesia caused by drugs. Amnesia may be therapeutic for medical treatment or for medical procedures, or it may be a side-effect of a drug, such as alcohol , or certain medications for psychiatric disorders, such as benzodiazepines . [ 1 ] It is seen also with slow acting parenteral general anae... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug-induced_amnesia |
Drug-related gingival hyperplasia is a cutaneous condition characterized by enlargement of the gums noted during the first year of drug treatment . [ 1 ] Although the mechanism of drug related gingival hyperplasia is not well understood, some risk factors for the condition include the duration of drug use and poor oral... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug-related_gingival_hyperplasia |
Drug addiction recovery groups are voluntary associations of people who share a common desire to overcome their drug addiction . Different groups use different methods, ranging from completely secular to explicitly spiritual. Some programs may advocate a reduction in the use of drugs rather than outright abstention. On... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_addiction_recovery_groups |
Dry needling , also known as trigger point dry needling and intramuscular stimulation , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] is a treatment technique used by various healthcare practitioners, including physical therapists , physicians , and chiropractors , among others. [ 3 ] Acupuncturists usually maintain that dry needling is adapted from ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_needling |
Dual consciousness (also known as dual mind or divided consciousness ) is a hypothesis in neuroscience . It is proposed that it is possible that a person may develop two separate conscious entities within their one brain after undergoing a corpus callosotomy . The idea first began circulating in the neuroscience commun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_consciousness |
In the mental health field, a dual relationship is a situation where multiple roles exist between a therapist , or other mental health practitioner, and a client. [ 1 ] Dual relationships are also referred to as multiple relationships , and these two terms are used interchangeably in the research literature. [ 1 ] [ 2 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_relationship |
Dubai School of Dental Medicine (DCDM), founded in 2013, is a dental medical college located in Dubai , United Arab Emirates . The dental college is accredited by the Ministry of Higher Education, [ 1 ] offering both undergraduate and post-graduate programs. [ 2 ]
The college is a newly established home-grown dental i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_School_of_Dental_Medicine |
Ductal papilloma is a group of rare and benign papillary salivary gland tumors arising from the duct system: [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
This oncology article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it . | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ductal_papilloma |
Ductopenia refers to a reduction in the number of ducts in an organ , in particular the absence of bile ducts of the expected size in the portal tract of the liver. [ 1 ] It is the histological hallmark of vanishing bile duct syndrome (typically <0.5 bile ducts per portal triad ). The most common cause of ductopenia is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ductopenia |
The Duke Activity Status Index ( DASI ) is an assessment tool used to evaluate the functional capacity of patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD), such as coronary artery disease , myocardial infarction , and heart failure . [ 1 ]
In clinical practice , DASI can be used to assess the effects of medical treatments a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Activity_Status_Index |
Duke E. Cameron is an American cardiac surgeon . Formerly Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; the James T. Dresher Sr. Professor of Surgery; Director of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery; and Director of The Dana and Albert "Cubby" Broccoli Center for Aortic Diseases , at the Johns Hopkins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Cameron |
Duke Treadmill Score is a tool for predicting the risk of ischemia or infarction in the heart muscle . [ 1 ] The score is a function of data from an exercise test : [ citation needed ] [ 1 ]
Angina index is zero if no pain occurs during the exercise, one if the pain is limited to the exercise period but the patient ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Treadmill_Score |
Duodenal-Jejunal Bypass Liner , or Gastric Bypass Stent , [ 1 ] Common brand names include EndoBarrier , is an implantable medical device in the form of a thin flexible 60 cm-long tube that creates a physical barrier between ingested food and the duodenum / proximal jejunum . The duodenal-jejunal bypass liner prevents ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodenal-jejunal_bypass_liner |
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The Duplessis Orphans (French: les Orphelins de Duplessis ) were a population of Canadian children [ 1 ] wrongly certified as mentally ill by the provincial government of Quebec and confined to psychiatric institutions in the 1940s and 1950s. Many of these children were deliberately miscertified in o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplessis_Orphans |
Duroziez's disease is a congenital variant of mitral stenosis . It was described in 1877 by Paul Louis Duroziez . [ 1 ]
This article about a medical condition affecting the circulatory system is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it . | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duroziez's_disease |
The Dutch hypothesis provides one of several biologically plausible explanations for the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) , a progressive disease known to be aetiologically linked to environmental insults such as tobacco smoke . [ 1 ]
The Dutch hypothesis was originally proposed by Dick Ori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_hypothesis |
Duvelisib , sold under the brand name Copiktra , is a medication used to treat chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL), and follicular lymphoma after other treatments have failed. [ 5 ] It is taken by mouth. [ 5 ] It is a PI3 kinase inhibitor . [ 6 ]
Common side effects include diarrhea, l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duvelisib |
In the military, dwell time is the amount of time that service members spend in their home station between deployments to war zones. It is used to calculate the deploy-to-dwell ratio. Dwell time is designed to allow service members a mental and physical break from combat and to give them time with their families. It is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwell_time_(military) |
Dynamic psychiatry is based on the study of emotional processes , their origins, and the mental mechanisms underlying them. It is in direct contrast with descriptive psychiatry , which is based on the study of observable symptoms and behavioral phenomena rather than underlying psychodynamic processes. Most modern psych... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_psychiatry |
Dyscopia consists of the Latin root copia , [ 1 ] which means abundance or plenty (see cornucopia ), and the Greek prefix dys- , which means "bad", "abnormal", "difficult" or "impaired". [ 2 ]
This word has assumed two meanings, both of which are essentially a play on words based on the phonic similarity of the words ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyscopia |
In medicine , both ancient and modern, a dyscrasia is any of various disorders. The word has ancient Greek roots meaning "bad mixture". [ 1 ] The concept of dyscrasia was developed by the Greek physician Galen (129–216 AD), who elaborated a model of health and disease as a structure of elements, qualities, humors, orga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyscrasia |
Dysdiadochokinesia ( DDK ) is the medical term for an impaired ability to perform rapid, alternating movements (i.e., diadochokinesia ). Complete inability is called adiadochokinesia. The term is from Greek δυς dys "bad", διάδοχος diadochos "working in turn", κίνησις kinesis "movement". [ 2 ]
Abnormalities in diadocho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysdiadochokinesia |
Dysesthesia is an unpleasant, abnormal sense of touch. Its etymology comes from the Greek word "dys," meaning "bad," and "aesthesis," which means "sensation" (abnormal sensation). It often presents as pain [ 1 ] but may also present as an inappropriate, but not discomforting, sensation. It is caused by lesions of the n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysesthesia |
Dysgraphia is a neurological disorder [ 2 ] and learning disability that concerns impairments in written expression, which affects the ability to write, primarily handwriting , but also coherence. It is a specific learning disability (SLD) as well as a transcription disability, meaning that it is a writing disorder ass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgraphia |
Dyskinesia refers to a category of movement disorders that are characterized by involuntary muscle movements, [ 1 ] including movements similar to tics or chorea and diminished voluntary movements. [ 2 ] Dyskinesia can be anything from a slight tremor of the hands to an uncontrollable movement of the upper body or lowe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyskinesia |
Dyslalia is an antiquated term for the incapacity to produce speech phonetically correctly, without neurological disorders or hearing disorders . Under the ICD-10, Dyslalia is currently coded under F80.0 (Phonological disorder). See speech disorders for information on current classifications and etiologies of phonetica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslalia |
Dysmorphopsia , in a broad sense, is a condition in which a person is unable to correctly perceive objects. It is a visual distortion , used to denote a variant of metamorphopsia in which lines appear wavy. [ 1 ] These illusions may be restricted to certain visuals areas, or may affect the entire visual field. [ 2 ]
I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysmorphopsia |
In medicine , dysthanasia occurs when a person who is dying has their biological life extended through technological means without regard to the person's quality of life . [ 1 ] The term dysthanasia means "bad death" (from the Greek language : δυσ, dus ; "bad", "difficult" + θάνατος, thanatos ; "death") [ 2 ] and is co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysthanasia |
Dystrophy is the degeneration of tissue , due to disease or malnutrition , most likely due to heredity . | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystrophy |
An e-patient is a health consumer who participates fully in their own medical care , primarily by gathering information about medical conditions that impact them and their families, using the Internet and other digital tools. [ 1 ] The term encompasses those who seek guidance for their own ailments, and the friends and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-patient |
The E.B. Wilson Medal is the American Society for Cell Biology 's highest honor for science and is presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for significant and far-reaching contributions to cell biology over the course of a career. It is named after Edmund Beecher Wilson . [ 1 ]
Source : ASCB | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.B._Wilson_Medal |
Edward Francis Bani Forster , FRSA , FWACP , was a Gambian physician and academic based in Ghana . He was the first Gambian psychiatrist, and a professor of Psychiatry at the University of Ghana . He served as the president of the West African College of Physicians from 1983 to 1984.
Forster was a foundation member of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._F._B._Forster |
The E. Mead Johnson Award , given by the Society for Pediatric Research , was established in 1939 to honor clinical and laboratory research achievements in pediatrics . The awards are funded by Mead Johnson Nutritionals , a subsidiary of Reckitt Benckiser and are named after Edward Mead Johnson , a co-founder of the or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Mead_Johnson_Award |
The ELVIS Procedure is a hybrid endoscopic and laparoscopic operation for evaluation of the colon . ELVIS stands for e ndoscopic/ l aparoscopic vis ualisation. This procedure is utilized for patients in whom a standard colonoscopy was unable to be completed. This is also found in the surgical literature as a "laparosc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELVIS_Procedure |
The ESC Congress is the annual congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), the largest medical congress in Europe. It gathers over 30,000 active participants (mainly cardiologists) and takes place every year in August/September in a different European city. [ citation needed ]
The first ESC Congress was held... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESC_Congress |
ESKAPE is an acronym comprising the scientific names of six highly virulent and antibiotic resistant bacterial pathogens including: Enterococcus faecium , Staphylococcus aureus , Klebsiella pneumoniae , Acinetobacter baumannii , Pseudomonas aeruginosa , and Enterobacter spp. [ 1 ] The acronym is sometimes extended to E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESKAPE |
Eagle syndrome (also termed stylohyoid syndrome , [ 1 ] styloid syndrome , [ 2 ] stylalgia , [ 3 ] styloid-stylohyoid syndrome , [ 2 ] or styloid–carotid artery syndrome ) [ 4 ] is an uncommon condition commonly characterized but not limited to sudden, sharp nerve-like pain in the jaw bone and joint , back of the throa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_syndrome |
The ear canal ( external acoustic meatus , external auditory meatus , EAM ) is a pathway running from the outer ear to the middle ear . The adult human ear canal extends from the auricle to the eardrum and is about 2.5 centimetres (1 in) in length and 0.7 centimetres (0.3 in) in diameter.
The human ear canal is divide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear_canal |
Earl Emanuel Shepard (September 1908 – May 1991) was an American orthodontist who is known for his contributions in the field of orthodontics. [ 1 ] He was director of the American Board of Orthodontics for 10 years. American Association of Orthodontics has an award named after Shepard which is given every year to orth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Emanuel_Shepard |
Earl Howard Wood (January 1, 1912 – March 18, 2009) was an American cardiopulmonary physiologist who helped invent the G-suit , brought heart catheterization into a clinical reality and introduced dynamic volumetric computed tomography for the study of the heart and lungs. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
Shortly after receivi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Wood |
Early intervention in psychosis is a clinical approach to those experiencing symptoms of psychosis for the first time. It forms part of a new prevention paradigm for psychiatry [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and is leading to reform of mental health services , [ 3 ] especially in the United Kingdom [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and Australia.
This approa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_intervention_in_psychosis |
Early pregnancy loss is a medical term that when referring to humans can variously be used to mean:
Pregnancy loss, in many cases, occurs for unknown reasons, often involving random chromosome issues during conception. Miscarriage is not caused by everyday activities like working, exercising, or having sex. Even falls... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_pregnancy_loss |
Early prostate cancer antigen-2 ( EPCA-2 ) is a protein of which blood levels are elevated in prostate cancer . It appears to provide more accuracy in identifying early prostate cancer than the standard prostate cancer marker, PSA .
"EPCA-2" is not the name of a gene. EPCA-2 gets its name because it is the second pros... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_prostate_cancer_antigen-2 |
The Early versus Late Intervention Trial with Estradiol ( ELITE ) was a large randomized controlled trial that assessed the timing hypothesis that menopausal hormone therapy in early but not late menopause would improve cardiovascular outcomes. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_versus_Late_Intervention_Trial_with_Estradiol |
An earmold (also spelled; ear mold , ear mould or earmould ) is a device worn inserted into the ear for sound conduction or hearing protection . Earmolds are anatomically shaped and can be produced in different sizes for general use or specially cast from particular ear forms. [ 1 ] Some users specify how hard or soft ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earmold |
An earplug is a device that is inserted in the ear canal to protect the user's ears from loud noises, intrusion of water, foreign bodies, dust or excessive wind . Earplugs may be used as well to improve sleep quality or focus in noisy environments. Since they reduce the sound volume, earplugs may prevent hearing loss a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earplug |
East Asian blepharoplasty , more commonly known as double eyelid surgery , is a cosmetic procedure that reshapes the skin around the eye to create a crease in an upper eyelid that naturally lacks one. Although 70-83% of East Asian women naturally have upper eyelid creases, it is estimated that 17-30% of Chinese and Jap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_blepharoplasty |
The Eating Disorder Diagnostic Scale ( EDDS ) is a self-report questionnaire that assesses the presence of three eating disorders ; anorexia nervosa , bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder . It was adapted by Stice et al. in 2000 from the validated structured psychiatric interview: The Eating Disorder Examination (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_Disorder_Diagnostic_Scale |
Eating recovery refers to the full spectrum of care that acknowledges and treats the multiple etiologies of anorexia nervosa and bulimia , including the biological, psychological, social and emotional causes of the disorder, through a comprehensive, integrated treatment regimen. When successful, this regimen restores ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_recovery |
Ebb Cade (17 March 1890 – 13 April 1953) was a construction worker at Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee , and was the first person subjected to injection with plutonium as an experiment.
Cade was born on 17 March 1890 in Macon County, Georgia , the son of Evens and Carrie Cade. Ebb Cade was married to Ida... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebb_Cade |
Ebullism is the formation of water vapour bubbles in bodily fluids due to reduced environmental pressure, usually at extreme high altitude . It occurs because a system of liquid and gas at equilibrium will see a net conversion of liquid to gas as pressure lowers; for example, liquids reach their boiling points at lowe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebullism |
Echocardiography , also known as cardiac ultrasound , is the use of ultrasound to examine the heart . It is a type of medical imaging , using standard ultrasound or Doppler ultrasound . [ 1 ] The visual image formed using this technique is called an echocardiogram , a cardiac echo , or simply an echo .
Echocardiograph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echocardiography |
Ecnoglutide (XW003) is a GLP-1 agonist being developed for the treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In preclinical trials, "Ecnoglutide showed a favorable potency, pharmacokinetic, and tolerability profile, as well as a simplified manufacturing process" compared to other GLP-1 agonists. [ 4 ]
T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecnoglutide |
Eco-friendly dentistry (also called environmentally friendly dentistry , green dentistry or sustainable dentistry ) aims at reducing the detrimental impact of dental services on the environment while still being able to adhere to the regulations and standards of the dental industries in their respective countries.
The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-friendly_dentistry |
Economic credentialing is a term of disapproval used by the American Medical Association (AMA). The association defines the term as "the use of economic criteria unrelated to quality of care or professional competence in determining a physician's qualifications for initial or continuing hospital medical staff membershi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_credentialing |
Ecovative LLC is a materials company headquartered in Green Island, New York , that provides sustainable alternatives to plastics and polystyrene foams for packaging , building materials as well as farm harvested high performance mycelium materials and proteins to reduce animal agriculture.
Ecovative was developed fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecovative_Design |
Ectopic enamel is an abnormality in the formation of enamel. It is tooth enamel that is found in an unusual location ( ectopia ), such as at the root of a tooth. [ 1 ] Enamel pearls are a type of ectopic enamel. [ 2 ]
This dentistry article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it . | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectopic_enamel |
An ectopic pancreas is an anatomical abnormality in which pancreatic tissue has grown outside its normal location ( ectopia ) and without vascular or other anatomical connections to the pancreas. [ 2 ] It is a disease which is congenital [ 2 ] and is also known as heterotopic, accessory, or aberrant pancreas. [ 3 ]
Of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectopic_pancreas |
An ectopic tooth , also known as an impacted tooth , is a tooth that develops in an abnormal position ( ectopia ) and fails to erupt into its normal location in the oral cavity . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Ectopic teeth can cause a variety of symptoms, such as pain, swelling, and infection, and they can lead to more serious complica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectopic_tooth |
Eczema vaccinatum is a rare severe adverse reaction to smallpox vaccination , caused by exposure to replicating live vaccinia virus.
It arises when vaccinia disseminates in people who have ever had atopic dermatitis or related eczematous disorders—or in their close contacts—because their impaired epidermal barrier per... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eczema_vaccinatum |
The Edinburgh College of Medicine for Women was established by The Scottish Association for the Medical Education of Women whose leading members included John Inglis , the father of Elsie Inglis . Elsie Inglis went on to become a leader in the suffrage movement and found the Scottish Women's Hospital organisation in W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_College_of_Medicine_for_Women |
The Edinburgh Phrenological Society was founded in 1820 by George Combe , an Edinburgh lawyer, with his physician brother Andrew Combe . [ 1 ] The Edinburgh Society was the first and foremost phrenology grouping in Great Britain ; more than forty phrenological societies followed in other parts of the British Isles . Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Phrenological_Society |
Personalized medicine involves medical treatments based on the characteristics of individual patients, including their medical history , family history , and genetics . Although personal genetic information is becoming increasingly important in healthcare, there is a lack of sufficient education in medical genetics amo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_personalized_medicine |
According to the US Department of Education , the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates ( ECFMG ) is "the authorized credential evaluation and guidance agency for non-U.S. physicians and graduates of non-U.S. medical schools who seek to practice in the United States or apply for a U.S. medical residency ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_Commission_for_Foreign_Medical_Graduates |
The Edwin Grant Conklin Medal was inaugurated in 1995 by the Society for Developmental Biology in honor of the biologist Edwin Conklin . It is awarded annually to recognise a member of the society who has carried out distinguished and sustained research in developmental biology. The recipient delivers a feature lecture... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Grant_Conklin_Medal |
The Edwin Smith Papyrus is an ancient Egyptian medical text , named after Edwin Smith who bought it in 1862, and the oldest known surgical treatise [ 2 ] on trauma .
This document, which may have been a manual of military surgery, describes 48 cases of injuries, fractures, wounds, dislocations and tumors. [ 3 ] It dat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Smith_Papyrus |
Effacement is the shortening, or thinning, of a tissue .
It can refer to cervical effacement . It can also refer to a process occurring in podocytes in nephrotic syndrome . [ 1 ]
In histopathology , it refers to the near obliteration of a tissue, as in the normal parenchyma of tissues in the case of some cancers.
Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effacement_(histology) |
In electrocardiography , during a cardiac cycle , once an action potential is initiated, there is a period of time that a new action potential cannot be initiated. This is termed the effective refractory period (ERP) of the tissue. This period is approximately equal to the absolute refractory period (ARP), it occurs be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_refractory_period |
The effects of long-term benzodiazepine use include drug dependence as well as the possibility of adverse effects on cognitive function, physical health, and mental health. [ 1 ] Long-term use is sometimes described as use not shorter than three months. [ 2 ] Benzodiazepines are generally effective when used therapeuti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_long-term_benzodiazepine_use |
The psychological and physiological effects of meditation have been studied. In recent years, studies of meditation have increasingly involved the use of modern instruments, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging and electroencephalography , which are able to observe brain physiology and neural activity in livin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_meditation |
Efficacy is the ability to perform a task to a satisfactory or expected degree. The word comes from the same roots as effectiveness , and it has often been used synonymously, although in pharmacology a distinction is now often made between efficacy and effectiveness . [ 1 ]
The word efficacy is used in pharmacology an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficacy |
Egg paleopathology is the study of evidence for illness, injury, and deformity in fossilized eggs . A variety of pathological conditions afflicting eggs have been documented in the fossil record . Examples include eggshell of abnormal thickness and fossil eggs with multiple layers of eggshell. The identification of egg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_paleopathology |
Eggs per gram (eggs/g) is a laboratory test that determines the number of eggs per gram of feces in patients suspected of having a parasitological infection , such as schistosomiasis . [ 1 ]
Measuring the number of eggs per gram is the primary diagnostic method for schistosomiasis, as opposed to a blood test . Eggs pe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggs_per_gram |
On 4 August 1985, Chinese gambler Huang Zhiheng murdered a family of ten in the Eight Immortals Restaurant in Portuguese Macau (present-day Macau SAR, China ). He stabbed or strangled each of his victims to death before dismembering their bodies and disposing of their remains in the ocean and dumpsters. Huang purported... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Immortals_Restaurant_murders |
Einthoven's triangle is an imaginary formation of three limb leads in a triangle used in the electrocardiography , formed by the two shoulders and the pubis. [ 1 ] The shape forms an inverted equilateral triangle with the heart at the center. It is named after Willem Einthoven , who theorized its existence. [ 2 ]
Eint... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einthoven's_triangle |
Eisenmenger syndrome or Eisenmenger's syndrome is defined as the process in which a long-standing left-to-right cardiac shunt caused by a congenital heart defect (typically by a ventricular septal defect , atrial septal defect , or less commonly, patent ductus arteriosus ) causes pulmonary hypertension [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenmenger_syndrome |
El Anfiteatro Anatómico Español ( English: The Spanish Anatomical Amphitheater ) was a Spanish medical journal dedicated to the fields of Medicine , Surgery , and Auxiliary Sciences , founded in the 19th century.
The medical journal was established by Segovian physician Pedro González de Velasco and began publication ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Anfiteatro_Anatómico_Español |
Elastic therapeutic tape , also called kinesiology tape or kinesiology therapeutic tape , Kinesio tape , k-tape , or KT [ 1 ] is an elastic cotton strip with an acrylic adhesive that is purported to ease pain and disability from athletic injuries and a variety of other physical disorders. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In individua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastic_therapeutic_tape |
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Elcatonin is a calcitonin derivative used as an anti- parathyroid agent.
It is transformed from eel's calcitonin by changing the S-S bond into a stable C-N bond. It inhibits the absorption and autolysis of bones and thus leads to lowering of blood calcium. It inhibits bone salts from dissolving and transferring and pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elcatonin |
Eleazar Parmly (March 13, 1797 – December 13, 1874) was an American dentist in New York City during the 19th-century. He was the first Provost of The University of Maryland School of Dentistry , the first dental school established in the United States . He was the third of five brothers and his three brothers also purs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleazer_Parmly |
An elective [ note 1 ] [ 1 ] is a placement undertaken as part of a medical degree . The content and setting of the placement are largely decided by the student undertaking it, [ 2 ] with some students choosing to spend it in a different country.
Elective placements are not exclusive to medical degrees; many other deg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elective_(medical) |
Elective surgery or elective procedure is surgery that is scheduled in advance because it does not involve a medical emergency . Semi-elective surgery is a surgery that must be done to preserve the patient's life, but does not need to be performed immediately. Most surgeries are elective, scheduled at a time to suit th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elective_surgery |
Electrical brain stimulation ( EBS ), also referred to as focal brain stimulation ( FBS ), is a form of electrotherapy and neurotherapy used as a technique in research and clinical neurobiology to stimulate a neuron or neural network in the brain through the direct or indirect excitation of its cell membrane by using a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_brain_stimulation |
Electrical cardiometry is a method based on the model of Electrical Velocimetry , and non-invasively measures stroke volume (SV), cardiac output (CO), and other hemodynamic parameters through the use of 4 surface ECG electrodes. Electrical cardiometry is a method trademarked by Cardiotronic, Inc., and is U.S. FDA appr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_cardiometry |
Electroanatomic mapping is a method of creating a three dimensional model of the human heart during clinical cardiac electrophysiology procedures.
The fundamental concept of electroanatomic mapping systems is to localize catheters within the heart in three dimensional space (a sort of " GPS " within the heart). Buildi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroanatomic_mapping |
Electrocardiography is the process of producing an electrocardiogram ( ECG or EKG [ a ] ), a recording of the heart's electrical activity through repeated cardiac cycles . [ 4 ] It is an electrogram of the heart which is a graph of voltage versus time of the electrical activity of the heart [ 5 ] using electrodes place... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocardiography |
Electrocardiography in suspected myocardial infarction has the main purpose of detecting ischemia or acute coronary injury in emergency department populations coming for symptoms of myocardial infarction (MI). Also, it can distinguish clinically different types of myocardial infarction.
The standard 12 lead electrocar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocardiography_in_myocardial_infarction |
Electrocochleography (abbreviated ECochG or ECOG ) is a technique of recording electrical potentials generated in the inner ear and auditory nerve in response to sound stimulation, using an electrode placed in the ear canal or tympanic membrane . [ 1 ] The test is performed by an otologist or audiologist with specializ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocochleography |
Electrocorticography ( ECoG ), a type of intracranial electroencephalography ( iEEG ), is a type of electrophysiological monitoring that uses electrodes placed directly on the exposed surface of the brain to record electrical activity from the cerebral cortex . In contrast, conventional electroencephalography (EEG) el... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocorticography |
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