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

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,

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.

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.

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…

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.

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.…

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.

Also known as Cutis anserina, a temporary local change in the?skin when it becomes rougher due to erection of little muscles, as from?cold, fear, or excitement. The chain of events leading to this skin change starts with a stimulus such as cold or fear. That stimulus causes a nerve discharge from the sympathetic nervous system, a portion of the…

A chemical substance produced in the body that controls and regulates the activity of certain cells or organs. Many hormones are secreted by special glands, such as thyroid hormone produced by the thyroid gland. Hormones are essential for every activity of life, including the processes of digestion, metabolism, growth, reproduction, and mood control. Many hormones, such as neurotransmitters, are active in…