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Medical Terms: A
KDA-Medical Terminology
Med. Terms: A | Definition |
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Abrasion | Injury caused by rubbing or scraping the skin. |
Accelerator | A chemical substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction. |
Acculturation | process of learning the beliefs and behaviors of a dominant culture and assuming some of the characteristics. |
Adduction | movement toward the midline. |
Adenitis | inflammation of a glandor lymph node. |
Adipose | fatty tissue |
Advance Directive | a lgal document designed to indicate a person's wishes regarding care in case of a terminal illness or during the dying process. |
Afebrile | without a fever |
Agar Plate | special laboratory dish containing agar, a gelatinous colloidal extract of a red alga, which is used to provide nourishment for growth of organisms. |
Agglutination | clumping together, as in the clumping together of red blood cells. |