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1) Orthopedic appliances used to support, align, or hold parts of the body in correct position. (Dorland, 28th ed)
2) 1) An appliance that gives support to movable parts (as a joint or a fractured bone), to weak muscles (as in paralysis), or to strained ligaments (as of the lower back). 2) Braces plural: an orthodontic appliance usually of metallic wire that is used especially to exert pressure to straighten misaligned teeth and that is not removable by the patient
Industry:Health care
1) Orthopedic appliances used to support, align, or hold parts of the body in correct position. (Dorland, 28th ed)
2) 1) An appliance that gives support to movable parts (as a joint or a fractured bone), to weak muscles (as in paralysis), or to strained ligaments (as of the lower back). 2) Braces plural: an orthodontic appliance usually of metallic wire that is used especially to exert pressure to straighten misaligned teeth and that is not removable by the patient
Industry:Health care
1) Outcomes that describe an individual's physiological reaction to substances that are foreign or interpreted by the body as foreign.
2) The activity of the immune system against foreign substances (antigens).
Industry:Health care
1) Outcomes that describe an individual's physiological reaction to substances that are foreign or interpreted by the body as foreign.
2) The activity of the immune system against foreign substances (antigens).
Industry:Health care
1) Outside a living organism.
2) In the laboratory (outside the body). The opposite of in vivo (in the body).
Industry:Health care
1) Paired glands situated in the retroperitoneal tissues at the superior pole of each kidney.
2) A pair of small glands, one located on top of each kidney. They produce steroid hormones, adrenaline and noradrenaline, which help control control heart rate, blood pressure, and other important body functions.
Industry:Health care
1) Paired glands situated in the retroperitoneal tissues at the superior pole of each kidney.
2) A pair of small glands, one located on top of each kidney. They produce steroid hormones, adrenaline and noradrenaline, which help control control heart rate, blood pressure, and other important body functions.
Industry:Health care
1) Palpitations; unpleasant sensation of irregular and/or forceful beating of the heart.
2) A rapid pulsation; especially: an abnormally rapid beating of the heart when excited by violent exertion, strong emotion, or disease.
Industry:Health care
1) Paralysis of both arms and both legs.
2) Paralysis of all four limbs.
Industry:Health care
1) Paralysis of one or more of the ocular muscles due to disorders of the eye muscles, neuromuscular junction, supporting soft tissue, tendons, or innervation to the muscles.
2) Paralysis of some or all of the muscles of the eye.
Industry:Health care
