| ECM | electronic claims management; embryonic chick muscle; erythema chronicum migrans; experimental cereb... |
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| EDAM | electron-dense amorphous material |
| EGM | electrogram; extracellular granular material |
| EIM | excitability-inducing material |
| GIM | general internal medicine; gonadotropin-inhibiting material |
| NMCUES | National Medical Care Utilization and Expenditure Survey |
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| ACCESS | Access to Community Care and Effective Services and Support |
| EPSDT | Early and Periodic Screening Diagnosis and Treatment |
| SUPPORT | Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment |
| AMC | Academic Medical Center |
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| medical futility | The absence of a useful purpose or useful result in a diagnostic procedure or therapeutic intervention. The situation of a patient whose condition will not be improved by treatment or instances in which treatment preserves permanent unconsciousness or cannot end dependence on intensive medical care. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| medical genetics | The study of the aetiology, pathogenesis, and natural history of human diseases which are at least partially genetic in origin. Compare: clinical genetics, human genetics. (05 Mar 2000) |
| medical illustration | The field which deals with illustrative clarification of biomedical concepts, as in the use of diagrams and drawings. The illustration may be produced by hand, photography, computer, or other electronic or mechanical methods. (12 Dec 1998) |
| medical indigency | The condition in which an individual is unable to provide himself and his dependents with adequate medical care without depriving himself and his dependents of food, clothing, shelter, and other essentials of living. (12 Dec 1998) |
| medical informatics | <study> Medical informatics is the use of computers and software to solve clinical or health care problems and the use of algorithms to improve communication, understanding and management of medical information. (09 Oct 1997) |
| medical informatics applications | Automated systems applied to the patient care process including diagnosis, therapy, and systems of communicating medical data within the health care setting. (12 Dec 1998) |
| medical informatics computing | Precise procedural mathematical and logical operations utilised in the study of medical information pertaining to health care. (12 Dec 1998) |
| medical jurisprudence | The application of medical knowledge to questions of law. (12 Dec 1998) |
| medical missions, official | Travel by a group of physicians to a foreign country for the purpose of making a special study or of undertaking a special project of a short-term duration; not to be confused with missions and missionaries which covers permanent medical establishments and personnel maintained by religious organizations. (12 Dec 1998) |
| medical model | A set of assumptions that views behavioural abnormalities in the same framework as physical disease or abnormalities. (05 Mar 2000) |
| medical mycology | The study of fungi that produce disease in humans and other animals, and of the diseases they produce, their ecology, and their epidemiology. (05 Mar 2000) |
| medical office buildings | Office and laboratory facilities constructed for the use of physicians and other health personnel. (12 Dec 1998) |
| medical oncologist | <specialist> A cancer physician, qualified in internal medicine who has subspecialised in the whole person assessment of patients with cancer and also in the use of chemotherapy, hormones and biotherapy. Some medical oncologists combine their practice with internal medicine, others with haem-oncology or palliative medicine. There are few such specialists world-wide. The majority work in academic university units. (16 Dec 1997) |
| medical oncology | A subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the study of neoplasms. (12 Dec 1998) |
| medical pathology | Pathology pertaining to various diseases not suitable for treatment by surgery. (05 Mar 2000) |