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Low altitude aerial photograph for use in photogrammetry. Location: Three Arch Bay, Laguna Beach, CA. Photogrammetry is the science and technology of obtaining reliable information about physical objects and the environment through the process of recording, measuring and interpreting photographic images and patterns of electromagnetic radiant imagery and other phenomena.
Medical Subject Headings ( MeSH) is a comprehensive controlled vocabulary for the purpose of indexing journal articles and books in the life sciences. It serves as a thesaurus that facilitates searching. Created and updated by the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), it is used by the MEDLINE / PubMed article database and by NLM's ...
The oldest known medical prescription text was found at Ebla, in modern Syria, and dates back to around 2500 BCE. Modern prescriptions are actually extemporaneous prescriptions (from the Latin ex tempore, "at/from the time"), meaning that the prescription is written on the spot for a specific patient with a specific ailment. This is ...
Cardiotocography ( CTG) is a technique used to monitor the fetal heartbeat and uterine contractions during pregnancy and labour. The machine used to perform the monitoring is called a cardiotocograph . Fetal heart sounds were described as early as 350 years ago and approximately 200 years ago mechanical stethoscopes, such as the Pinard horn ...
The human skull is used universally as a symbol of death. Death is the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. The remains of a former organism normally begin to decompose shortly after death. Death eventually and inevitably occurs in all organisms. Some organisms, such as Turritopsis dohrnii, are biologically immortal, however they can still die from ...
Translational medicine. Translational medicine (often called translational science, of which it is a form) develops the clinical practice applications of the basic science aspects of the biomedical sciences; that is, it translates basic science to applied science in medical practice. It is defined by the European Society for Translational ...
rheumatoid arthritis. right atrium. room air. RAD. reflex anal dilatation. right axis deviation. reactive airway disease. radiation absorbed dose. reactive attachment disorder.
Abbreviations are used very frequently in medicine. They boost efficiency as long as they are used intelligently. The advantages of brevity should be weighed against the possibilities of obfuscation (making the communication harder for others to understand) and ambiguity (having more than one possible interpretation).