| ELSI | ethical, legal, and social issues |
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| GSS | gamete-shedding substance; General Social Survey; Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker [disease] |
| ISSI | interview schedule for social interaction; Israeli Study of Surgical Infections |
| KISS | key integrative social system; saturated solution of potassium iodide |
| MCSDS | Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale |
| state medicine | A system of medical care regulated, controlled and financed by the government, in which the government assumes responsibility for the health needs of the population. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| neonatal medicine | The art and science of caring medically for the newborn. (12 Dec 1998) |
| submarine medicine | The field of medicine concerned with conditions affecting the health of people in submarines or sealabs. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nuclear medicine | <study> The branch of medicine pertaining to diagnostic, therapeutic and investigative use of radioactive chemical elements. (16 Dec 1997) |
| nuclear medicine department, hospital | Hospital department responsible for the administration and management of nuclear medicine services. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nuclear medicine physician | <specialist> A specialist trained in the interpretation and administration of diagnostic tests that use radionuclide compounds. (27 Sep 1997) |
| defensive medicine | The alterations of modes of medical practice, induced by the threat of liability, for the principal purposes of forestalling lawsuits by patients as well as providing good legal defense in the event that such lawsuits are instituted. (12 Dec 1998) |
| desmoteric medicine | The branch of medical practice that deals with health problems occurring among prison inmates. Origin: G. Desmoterion, prison, fr. Deo, to bind, + -ic (05 Mar 2000) |
| quack medicine | A compound advertised falsely as curative of a certain disease or diseases. (05 Mar 2000) |
| institute of medicine | Identifies, for study and analysis, important issues and problems that relate to health and medicine. The institute initiates and conducts studies of national policy and planning for health care and health-related education and research; it also responds to requests from the federal government and other agencies for studies and advice. (12 Dec 1998) |
| internal medicine | The speciality of the general medicine of the internal organs. In the Commonwealth, the specialist in internal medicine is called a Physician (in the us, an Internist). (16 Dec 1997) |
| occupational medicine | <study> A branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of patients with occupational and environmental illness and injury. (09 Oct 1997) |
| oral medicine | A branch of dentistry dealing with diseases of the oral and paraoral structures and the oral management of systemic diseases. (hall, what is oral medicine, anyway? clinical update: national naval dental centre, march 1991, p7-8) (12 Dec 1998) |
| osteopathic medicine | A system of therapy and medicine based on the theory that the normal body is a vital mechanical organism whose structural and functional states are of equal importance and is capable of making its own remedies against infections and toxic conditions when there are favourable environmental circumstances and adequate nutrition. (12 Dec 1998) |
| theory of medicine | The science, as distinguished from the art, or practice, of medicine. (05 Mar 2000) |