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Having to do with the eye.

Oral contraceptive pill.

Oral cholecystogram.

A licensed health professional who is trained to evaluate patients with joint conditions, such as arthritis, to determine the impact the disease on their activities of daily living. Occupational therapists can design and prescribe assistive devices that can improve the quality of the activities of daily living for patients with arthritis and other conditions of the…

Hidden. For example, occult blood in the stool is hidden from the eye but can be detected by chemical tests.

1 To close, obstruct, or prevent the passage. To occlude an artery is to occlude the flow of blood. 2 To bring together. To occlude the teeth is to align the upper and lower teeth, as for chewing.

A hematoma (collection of blood) in the occipital region (at the back of the head). An occipital hematoma may be either subdural or epidural. In an occipital epidural hematoma, the bleeding occurs between the skull and the dura (the brain cover). The bleeding is from an injury to a vein or a branch of the posterior meningeal artery. Occipital epidural hematoma is often caused by a full-on blow to…

The bone that forms the rear and rear bottom of the skull.

1. Pertaining to the occiput, the back of head.2. Located near the occipital bone as, for example, the occipitallobe of the brain.

The principle of scientific or, in medicine, diagnostic parsimony or “unitarianism.” In medicine, a clinician would like to be able to use Occam’s razor and come up with a unifying diagnosis that will explain all of the patient’s problems. “Although we generally like to invoke Occam’s razor, for some patients we cannot follow the rule of diagnostic…