Category: Hg-Hx

  • HS

    Hereditary spherocytosis. HS also stands for half-strength, hamstrings, heart sounds, heparan sulfate, hernia sac, and house surgeon.

  • HRT (hormone replacement therapy)

    The combination therapy of estrogen plus a progestogen. Formerly, known as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and now known as hormone therapy (HT).?Estrogen therapy (ET) is used to treat the symptoms of??menopause. It reduces or stops the short-term changes of menopause such as?hot flashes, disturbed??sleep, and?vaginal dryness. Estrogen therapy can prevent?osteoporosis, a consequence of lowered estrogen levels. Vaginal…

  • HPS

    1. Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.2. Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome.

  • House surgeon

    Literally, a surgeon in the house, the house being the hospital. The meaning of the term house surgeon varies significantly from country to country. For example,

  • House staff

    The resident physicians of a hospital who care for patients under the direction of the attending staff. House in this context refers to the hospital.

  • House officer

    A resident physician and surgeon of a hospital (the “house”) who is receiving further training, usually in a medical or surgical specialty, while caring for patients under the direction of an attending physician.

  • Hot flashes

    A sudden wave of mild or intense body heat caused by rushes of hormonal changes resulting from decreased levels of estrogen. Hot flashes can occur at any time and may last from a few seconds to a half-hour. They are due to blood vessel opening and constricting and a symptom of menopause. Hot flashes are episodes that are experienced…

  • Host

    1. The organism from which a parasite obtains its nutrition and/or shelter.2. An organism or cell culture in which a virus can replicate itself.3. The transplant recipient of a tissue or organ graft.

  • Hospice care

    Care designed to give supportive care to people in the final phase of a terminal illness and focus on comfort and quality of life, rather than cure. The goal is to enable patients to be comfortable and free of pain, so that they live each day as fully as possible. Aggressive methods of pain control may be used.…

  • Horror autotoxicus

    Literally, the horror of self-toxicity. A term coined by the great German bacteriologist and immunologist Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915) to describe the body’s innate aversion to immunological self-destruction. However, as we now know, the immune system can upon occasion attack itself and does so in the autoimmune disorders.