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(MAYN-streem MEH-dih-sin)
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| A system in which medical doctors and other healthcare professionals (such as nurses, pharmacists, and therapists) treat symptoms and diseases using drugs, radiation, or surgery. Also called allopathic medicine, biomedicine, conventional medicine, orthodox medicine, and Western medicine. |
Previous Definitions: | magnetic resonance perfusion imaging, magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging, magnetic-targeted carrier, Magnevist, maidenhair tree | Next Definitions: | maintenance therapy, malabsorption syndrome, male breast cancer, malignancy, malignant |
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