Medicine has its own unique language. Well before matriculating, the medical school applicant is bombarded with a litany of terms and acronyms. Being exposed to the nomenclature can help to ease the ...

A new app has been created to help patients who speak Innu-aimun communicate with their English-speaking health care providers. The Innu Medical Glossary, designed by Memorial University researchers ...

Confabulation: A memory disorder where the patient fabricates unusual thoughts about oneself or the society without any intention to cheat. Delirium: Confused thought process and loss of awareness ...

Every day it seems a biotech company releases data for a promising new drug that it hopes will cure some dreaded disease, but has been studied only in a handful of people so far. Or a big university ...

Prenatal test: A test done before the birth of the baby. Trimester of pregnancy: Pregnancy is divided into 3 trimesters each of around 3 months. The first trimester is for 12 weeks, the second is from ...

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