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Open study
Open study
A trial in which subjects and investigators know which product each subject is receiving; opposite of doubleblind study.
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Open comedo
A blackhead - a noninflammatory comedo with a dark top and firmly packed contents.
Open heart surgery
Surgery that involves opening the chest and heart while a heart-lung machine performs for the heart.
Open Heart Surgery
Any of a number of invasive cardiac (heart) surgical procedures.
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Ommaya reservoir
A device with a fluid reservoir implanted under the scalp with a catheter to a ventricle. It allows for medication to be given directly to the CSF and into the brain.
Oncogene
Fragments of genetic material (DNA) that carry the potential to cause cancer (transform normal cells into malignant cells).
Oncogenesis
The causation or production of tumors.
Occupational therapist
An individual trained to help people manage the daily activities of living, such as dressing, grooming or cooking, and regaining vocational skills.
Objective measurement
A measurement that cannot be influenced by investigator bias; for example, blood glucose levels or ECG tracings.
Open study
Original medical record
See source documents.
Outcomes research
See pharmacoeconomics.
Outpatient clinic
A general medical clinic focused.
O.M.D.
Oriental Medical Doctor. ("D.O.M." stands for "Doctor of Oriental Medicine.")
Orthomolecular medicine (orthomolecular nutritional medicine, orthomolecular therapy)
Approach to therapy whose centerpiece is megavitamin therapy. Orthomolecular medicine encompasses hair analysis, orthomolecular nutrition (a form of megavitamin therapy), and orthomolecular psychiatry. Linus Carl Pauling, Ph.D. (1901-1994), coined the word "orthomolecular." The prefix "ortho-" means "straight," and the implicit meaning of "orthomolecular" is "to straighten (correct) concentrations of specific molecules." The primary principle of orthomolecular medicine is that nutrition is the foremost consideration in diagnosis and treatment. Its purported focus is "normalizing" the "balance" of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and "similar" substances in the body.
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