"giving a reason for" (αἰτία, aitia, "cause"; and -λογία, -logia). In medicine, etiology refers to the cause or causes of diseases or pathologies. Where no...
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Cancer is caused by genetic changes leading to uncontrolled cell growth and tumor formation. The basic cause of sporadic (non-familial) cancers is DNA...
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principles of the practice of medicine Medical literature – Scientific literature of medicine Medical malpractice – Legal cause of action Medical psychology –...
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Etiology (category Cause (medicine))
they function, or it can refer to the causes themselves. The word is commonly used in medicine (pertaining to causes of disease or illness) and in philosophy...
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prevent illness or to alleviate an illness by eliminating its cause. The terms "allopathic medicine" and "allopathy" are drawn from the Greek prefix ἄλλος (állos)...
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seizures are observed in patients who do not have epilepsy. There are many causes of seizures. Organ failure, medication and medication withdrawal, cancer...
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transport, or nuclear plants), medicine (for medical diagnosis), healthcare industry (e.g., for epidemiology), etc. Root cause analysis is a form of inductive...
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In law, medicine, and statistics, cause of death is an official determination of the conditions resulting in a human's death, which may be recorded on...
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Traditional medicine (also known as indigenous medicine or folk medicine) comprises medical aspects of traditional knowledge that developed over generations...
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Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an alternative medical practice drawn from traditional medicine in China. A large share of its claims are pseudoscientific...
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Homeopathy (redirect from Exciting causes)
downplaying the effectiveness of medicine. Homeopaths claim that use of conventional medicines will "push the disease deeper" and cause more serious conditions...
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pain can be a cause for concern and may require a psychiatric evaluation. In other instances the infliction of pain is consensual but caused by another person...
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something Ethical ideal (principles or value) Causes (company), an online company Cause (medicine) Cause (river), in Bouches-du-Rhône, southern France...
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Ancient Medicine had described the essential characteristics of a cause as it is considered in medicine: We must, therefore, consider the causes of each...
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Physician (redirect from Doctor (medicine))
medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through...
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Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults". American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 14 (4): 245–258. doi:10.1016/S0749-3797(98)00017-8...
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Manner of death (redirect from Natural cause)
who lacked the ability to understand causes of death attributed unknown causes to "old age." With modern medicine and medical machinery, doctors are now...
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Humorism (redirect from Four humors of Hippocratic medicine)
thought to be humoral were in fact caused by microbes. The concept of "humors" may have origins in Ancient Egyptian medicine, or Mesopotamia, though it was...
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Correlation does not imply causation (redirect from Third-cause fallacy)
does not imply causation" refers to the inability to legitimately deduce a cause-and-effect relationship between two events or variables solely on the basis...
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Internal medicine, also known as general internal medicine in Commonwealth nations, is a medical specialty for medical doctors focused on the prevention...
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Epilepsy (redirect from Causes of epilepsy)
"Sturge-Weber syndrome and port-wine stains caused by somatic mutation in GNAQ". The New England Journal of Medicine. 368 (21): 1971–1979. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1213507...
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Swedish: Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin) is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute...
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state from God. Medieval medicine also recognized that illnesses spread from person to person, that certain lifestyles may cause ill health, and some people...
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Clinical Medicine. Retrieved 11 November 2019. Marine JE (2012). "ECG Features that suggest a potentially life-threatening arrhythmia as the cause for syncope"...
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practices are New Age medicine, pseudo-medicine, unorthodox medicine, holistic medicine, fringe medicine, and unconventional medicine, with little distinction...
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used systemically, and paved the way for the antibiotic revolution in medicine. In bacteria, antibacterial sulfonamides act as competitive inhibitors...
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of Medicine, this was in agreement with Galen who believed that the formal cause of illness is based upon the individual's temperament. Final Cause: The...
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Hypothermia (redirect from Causes of hypothermia)
hyperglycemia". Western Journal of Medicine. 134 (5): 455–6. PMC 1272797. PMID 7257359. eMedicine Specialties > Emergency Medicine > Environmental >Hypothermia...
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Sciatica (redirect from Causes of sciatica)
pressing on one of the lumbar or sacral nerve roots is the most frequent cause of sciatica, being present in about 90% of cases. This is particularly true...
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Sepsis (category Causes of amputation)
life-threatening condition that arises when the body's response to infection causes injury to its own tissues and organs. This initial stage of sepsis is followed...
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