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41Heroic medicine — is a term for aggressive medical practices or methods of treatment, and usually refers to those which were later superseded by scientific advances.It is not known who first used the pejorative term “heroic medicine”; but it is most likely that it …
42Porphyria cutanea tarda — DiseaseDisorder infobox Name = Porphyria cutanea tarda Caption = Porphyria cutanea tarda on the hands ICD10 = ICD10|E|80|1|e|70 ICD9 = ICD9|277.1 Porphyria cutanea tarda (PCT) is the most common subtype of porphyria. The disorder results from low …
43Hypopituitarism — Infobox Disease Name = Hypopituitarism Caption = The pituitary gland on a plate from Gray s Anatomy (1918). The anterior lobe is on the left, and the posterior lobe on the right, both in red. DiseasesDB = 6522 ICD10 = ICD10|E|23|0|e|20,… …
44Neil Hamilton Fairley — Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley Brigadier Neil Hamilton Fairley Born 15 July 1891 Inglewood …
45Sushruta Samhita — The Sushruta Samhita is a Sanskrit text on surgery, attributed to Sushruta, (6th century BCE), the father of Surgery .The text as preserved dates to the 3rd or 4th century CE.Amongst the eight divisions of medical knowledge (Ayurveda), surgery… …
46Panchakarma — is the five different procedures described by the Ayurveda texts for purification of the body and is one of the two systems for treatment. One is to pacify the aggravated Doshas by using appropriate diet, natural herbs and minerals; and the other …
47cholera — choleraic /kol euh ray ik/, adj. /kol euhr euh/, n. 1. Also called Asiatic cholera. Pathol. an acute, infectious disease, endemic in India and China and occasionally epidemic elsewhere, characterized by profuse diarrhea, vomiting, cramps, etc. 2 …
48phlebotomy — /fleuh bot euh mee/, n., pl. phlebotomies. Med. the act or practice of opening a vein for letting blood as a therapeutic measure; venesection; bleeding. [1350 1400; earlier flebotomye, phlebothomy ( < MF flebotomie) < ML phlebotomia, LL < Gk… …
49venepuncture — /ven euh pungk cheuhr, vee neuh /, n. Med. venipuncture. [1920 25; vene (see VENESECTION) + PUNCTURE] * * * …
50venisection — /ven euh sek sheuhn, vee neuh /, n. Surg. phlebotomy. Also, venesection. [VEN(A) + I + SECTION] * * * …
