(medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance
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Insulin shock
the administration of sufficient insulin to induce convulsions and coma
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the therapeutic use of aromatic plant extracts and essential oils in baths or massage
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Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Clinical psychology, General medicine, Psychology.the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Clinical psychology, General medicine, Psychology.therapy that uses a local electric current to introduce the ions of a medicine into the tissues
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Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Clinical psychology, General medicine, Psychology.hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women; believed to protect them from heart disease and osteoporosis
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mild form of diabetes mellitus that develops gradually in adults; can be precipitated by obesity or severe stress or menopause or othe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: administration, sufficient, insulin, induce, convulsions.mild form of diabetes mellitus that develops gradually in adults; can be precipitated by obesity or severe stress or menopause or othe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: administration, sufficient, insulin, induce, convulsions.severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset; characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: administration, sufficient, insulin, induce, convulsions.To be of use or advantage; to answer the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the pl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: administration, sufficient, insulin, induce, convulsions.a cell that produces insulin in the isles of Langerhans in the pancreas
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: administration, sufficient, insulin, induce, convulsions.Coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: administration, sufficient, insulin, induce, convulsions.Encompassed with a coma, or bushy appearance, like hair; hairy.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: administration, sufficient, insulin, induce, convulsions.Relating to, or resembling, coma; drowsy; lethargic; as, comatose sleep; comatose fever.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: administration, sufficient, insulin, induce, convulsions.A member of the solar system which usually moves in an elongated orbit, approaching very near to the sun in its perihelion, and recedi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: administration, sufficient, insulin, induce, convulsions.One who has convulsions; esp., one of a body of fanatics in France, early in the eighteenth century, who went into convulsions under t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: administration, sufficient, insulin, induce, convulsions.Producing, or attended with, convulsions or spasms; characterized by convulsions; convulsionary.
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