| physician-assisted suicide | assisted suicide where the assistant is a physician |
medicine
practice of medicine | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries, he studied medicine at Harvard |
| preventive medicine | the branch of medicine concerned with preventing disease, the medical establishment doesn't profit from preventive medicine |
| alternative medicine | the practice of medicine without the use of drugs, may involve herbal medicines or self-awareness or biofeedback or acupuncture |
| herbal medicine | the use of medicinal herbs to prevent or treat disease or promote health |
| complementary medicine | the practice of medicine that combines traditional medicine with alternative medicine |
family practice
family medicine | medical practice that provides health care regardless of age or sex while placing emphasis on the family unit |
| holistic medicine | medical care of the whole person considered as subject to personal and social as well as organic factors, holistic medicine treats the mind as well as the body |
phytotherapy
herbal therapy
botanical medicine | the use of plants or plant extracts for medicinal purposes (especially plants that are not part of the normal diet) |
| music medicine | punishment for one's actions, you have to face the music, take your medicine |
| respiratory syncytial virus | a paramyxovirus that forms syncytia in tissue culture and that is responsible for severe respiratory diseases such as bronchiolitis and bronchial pneumonia (especially in children) |
aqualung
Aqua-Lung
scuba | a device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water, scuba is an acronym for selfontained underwater breathing apparatus |
| cold medicine | medicine intended to relieve the symptoms of the common cold |
| heart-lung machine | a pump to maintain circulation during heart surgery, diverts blood from the heart and oxygenates it and then pumps it through the body |
| herbal medicine | a medicine made from plants and used to prevent or treat disease or promote health |
| iron lung | respirator that produces alternations in air pressure in a chamber surrounding a patient's chest to force air into and out of the lungs thus providing artificial respiration |
lipid-lowering medicine
lipid-lowering medication
statin drug
statin | a medicine that lowers blood cholesterol levels by inhibiting HMG-CoA reductase |
medicine
medication
medicament
medicinal drug | (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease |
| medicine ball | heavy ball used in physical training |
medicine chest
medicine cabinet | cabinet that holds medicines and toiletries |
National Library of Medicine
United States National Library of Medicine
U.S. National Library of Medicine | the world's largest medical library |
over-theounter drug
over-theounter medicine | a drug that is sold without a prescription |
| patent medicine | medicine that is protected by a patent and available without a doctor's prescription |
prescription drug
prescription
prescription medicine
ethical drug | a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist, he told the doctor that he had been taking his prescription regularly |
| physician-patient privilege | the right of a physician to refuse to divulge confidential information from a patient without the consent of the patient |
| lung-power | the ability to speak loudly |
lower respiratory tract smear
bronchoscopic smear
sputum smear | any of several cytologic smears obtained from different parts of the lower respiratory tract, used for cytologic study of cancer and other diseases of the lungs |
pulmonary artery
arteria pulmonalis | one of two arteries (branches of the pulmonary trunk) that carry venous blood from the heart to the lungs |
pulmonary trunk
truncus pulmonalis | the artery that carries venous blood from the right ventricle of the heart and divides into the right and left pulmonary arteries |
pulmonary vein
vena pulmonalis | any of four veins that carry arterial blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart |
inferior pulmonary vein
vena pulmanalis inferior | either of two pulmonary veins (left and right) returning blood from the inferior lobes of the lungs |
superior pulmonary vein
vena pulmonalis superior | either of two pulmonary veins (left and right) returning blood from the superior lobes of the lungs |
| lung | either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates, serves to remove carbon dioxide and provide oxygen to the blood |
| lobe of the lung | any of the three lobes of the right lung or the two lobes of the left lung |
| pulmonary valve | a semilunar valve between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery, prevents blood from flowing from the artery back into the heart |
pulmonary plexis
plexus pulmonalis | one of two autonomic nerve plexuses in each lung |
respiratory system
systema respiratorium | the system for taking in oxygen and giving off carbon dioxide, in terrestrial animals this is accomplished by breathing |
respiratory tract
airway | the passages through which air enters and leaves the body |
| lower respiratory tract | the bronchi and lungs |
| upper respiratory tract | the nose and throat and trachea |
| respiratory organ | any organ involved in the process of respiration |
| book lung | organ in many arachnids containing many thin folds of membrane resembling the leaves of a book |
| respiratory center | the center in the medulla oblongata and pons that integrates sensory information about the level of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood and determines the signals to be sent to the respiratory muscles |
medicine
medical specialty | the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques |
aeromedicine
aerospace medicine
aviation medicine | the study and treatment of disorders associated with flight (especially with space flight) |
dentistry
dental medicine
odontology | the branch of medicine dealing with the anatomy and development and diseases of the teeth |
| emergency medicine | the branch of medicine concerned with the prompt diagnosis and treatment of injuries or trauma or sudden illness |
forensic medicine
forensic pathology | the branch of medical science that uses medical knowledge for legal purposes, forensic pathology provided the evidence that convicted the murderer |
internal medicine
general medicine | the branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and (nonsurgical) treatment of diseases of the internal organs (especially in adults) |
| nuclear medicine | the branch of medicine that uses radioactive materials either to image a patient's body or to destroy diseased cells |