| IHCA | individual health care account; isocapnic hyperventilation with cold air |
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| MICG | macromolecular insoluble cold globulin |
| PCH | paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria; polycyclic hydrocarbon |
| AAEM | American Academy of Environmental Medicine; American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine |
| DDM | Diploma in Dermatological Medicine; Doctor in Dental Medicine; Dyke-Davidoff-Masson [syndrome] |
| nuclear medicine department, hospital | Hospital department responsible for the administration and management of nuclear medicine services. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| 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) |
| emergency medicine | A branch of medicine concerned with an individual's resuscitation, transportation and care from the point of injury or beginning of illness through the hospital or other emergency treatment facility. (12 Dec 1998) |
| environmental medicine | Medical specialty concerned with environmental factors that may impinge upon human disease, and development of methods for the detection, prevention, and control of environmentally related disease. (12 Dec 1998) |
| tropical medicine | <study> The branch of medicine concerned with diseases, mainly of parasitic origin, common in tropical and subtropical regions. (12 Dec 1998) |
| evidence-based medicine | The process of systematically finding, appraising, and using contemporaneous research findings as the basis for clinical decisions. Evidence-based medicine asks questions, finds and appraises the relevant data, and harnesses that information for everyday clinical practice. Evidence-based medicine follows four steps: formulate a clear clinical question from a patient's problem; search the literature for relevant clinical articles; evaluate (critically appraise) the evidence for its validity and usefulness; implement useful findings in clinical practice. The term "evidence based medicine" (no hyphen) was coined at mcmaster medical school in canada in the 1980's to label this clinical learning strategy, which people at the school had been developing for over a decade. (12 Dec 1998) |