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Diseases and disorders VACTERL-H Vertebral abnormalities, Anal atresia, Cardiac defects, Tracheoesophageal fistula, Esophageal atresia, Renal and radial abnormalities, Limb abnormalities with Hydrocephalus
Activities of daily living (ADLs) is a term used in healthcare to refer to an individual's daily self-care activities. Health professionals often use a person's ability or inability to perform ADLs as a measure of their functional status .
The term childhood disease refers to disease that is contracted or becomes symptomatic before the age of 18 or 21 years old. Many of these diseases can also be contracted by adults. Some childhood diseases include:
The BRAT diet: bananas, rice, applesauce, toast (helps digestion in some GI disorders) BRATY: another version of the BRAT diet: bananas, rice, applesauce, toast, yogurt (helps digestion in some GI disorders) BRB: bright red blood (color is important as an indicator of source, for example in gastrointestinal bleeding) BRBPR: bright red blood per ...
Pronunciation follows convention outside the medical field, in which acronyms are generally pronounced as if they were a word (JAMA, SIDS), initialisms are generally pronounced as individual letters (DNA, SSRI), and abbreviations generally use the expansion (soln. = "solution", sup. = "superior").
ADLS can refer to: Activities of daily living , a term used in healthcare about daily self-care activities Aircraft Detection Lighting System , a system for turning wind turbine lights on, only when its radar detects aircraft within thresholds of altitude and distance
This is an alphabetically sorted list of medical syndromes. 1p36 deletion syndrome ... Work-related musculoskeletal disorders; Worster-Drought syndrome; Worth ...
Sortable table Abbreviation Meaning ā (a with a bar over it) before (from Latin ante) before: A: assessment a.a. of each (from Latin ana ana) amino acids: . A or Ala – alanine C or Cys – cysteine