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The Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) is a systematic, computer-processable collection of medical terms, in human and veterinary medicine, to provide codes, terms, synonyms and definitions which cover anatomy, diseases, findings, procedures, microorganisms, substances, etc. It allows a consistent way to index, store, retrieve, and ...
A page from Robert James's A Medicinal Dictionary; London, 1743-45 An illustration from Appleton's Medical Dictionary; edited by S. E. Jelliffe (1916). The earliest known glossaries of medical terms were discovered on Egyptian papyrus authored around 1600 B.C. [1] Other precursors to modern medical dictionaries include lists of terms compiled from the Hippocratic Corpus in the first century AD.
A descriptor which is applied to any substance or process which is being investigated for clinical use but either has not commenced, or has not completed, clinical trials. Examples: candidate vaccine, candidate formulation. Case report A detailed report of the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of an individual patient.
In forming or understanding a word root, one needs a basic comprehension of the terms and the source language.The study of the origin of words is called etymology.For example, if a word was to be formed to indicate a condition of kidneys, there are two primary roots – one from Greek (νεφρός nephr(os)) and one from Latin (ren(es)).
For example, the drug therapy of asthma is displayed as asthma/drug therapy. The remaining two types of term are those that describe the type of material that the article represents ( publication types ), and supplementary concept records (SCR) which describes substances such as chemical products and drugs that are not included in the headings ...
Acronyms Diseases and disorders BA Bronchial Asthma: BBS Bardet-Biedl syndrome BBS Bashful bladder syndrome (see paruresis) : BEB Benign essential blepharospasm
Where available, ICD-10 codes are listed. When codes are available both as a sign/symptom (R code) and as an underlying condition, the code for the sign is used. When there is no symptoms for a disease that a patient has, the patient is said to be asymptomatic.
Likewise, sepsis and trauma are examples of foreign insults, [2] and encephalitis, multiple sclerosis, and brain tumors are examples of insults to the brain. [3] Clinicians may use the term cerebrovascular insult (CVI) as a synonym for a stroke. [4] [5] Insults may be categorized as either genetic or environmental. [6]