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Thalassotherapy
Thalassotherapy
The treatment of illness by sea air and sea water. It encompasses sea bathing, ocean voyaging, and sojourning at seaside resorts.
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Thalassemia
An inherited disorder in which abnormal hemoglobin is formed; required repeated blood transfusions result in iron loading with especial impairment of functions of pituitary, heart and pancreas; prevalent in countries bordering the Mediterranean, in the Middle East, and in India and Southeast Asia.
Thalassery doctors
All doctors near Thalassery, India. Doctors who can assist a patient in Thalassery.
Thalidomide
A sedative and hypnotic drug first marketed in the 1950s before it was known to cause pregnant women to give birth to babies with either missing limbs (amelia) or phocomelia (seal-flipper deformity of arms and/or legs)
Thalitone
Thalitone is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) approved in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): chlorthalidone.
Thallium Exercise Stress Test (Stress thallium test, Perfusion scan)
A type of nuclear scanning technique that uses the radioactive substance thallium. A thallium stress test combines nuclear scanning with exercise on a treadmill or stationary bicycle to assess heart function and determine if there is adequate flood flow to the myocardium.
Thallium stress test
A study in which radioactive potassium is carried by the blood and the progress is followed by x-ray pictures.
Thallous chloride tl 201
Thallous chloride tl 201 is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) approved in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): thallous chloride, tl-201.
Thalomid
Thalomid is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) approved in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): thalidomide.
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Triple-blind study
A study in which knowledge of the treatment is concealed from the people who organise and analyse the data of a study as well as from subjects and investigators.
Type 1 error (statistics)
Error made when a correct null hypothesis is rejected, when a treatment effect is seen which is not true.
Type 2 error (statistics)
Error made when an incorrect null hypothesis is not rejected, when a treatment effect is in fact present, but not observed, perhaps because of too few events.
Tao
In a word, everything; the experience of the "universal Way" ("essential reality").
TCM
Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Thalassotherapy
Th.D.
Doctor of Theology.
Tofu (bean curd)
A kind of soy cheese. It is nondairy and high in protein.
Team Management
Describes a diabetes treatment approach in which medical care is provided by a physician, diabetes nurse educator, dietitian, and behavioral scientist working together with the patient.
Thiazolidinediones
One of several different classes of pills that lower the level of glucose in the blood. Used in Type 2 diabetes. There are several thiazolidinedione pills available. This class of medications is also called "glitazones."
Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH)
A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland, that controls the production and release of the thyroid hormones (T4 and T3). Measurement of the TSH level in the bloodstream is commonly done as a screening tool for hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism, and as an assessment of the adequacy of therapy in people who are taking thyroid hormone pills as therapy. Typically, high values of TSH are associated with hypothyroidism, and absence of TSH is associated with hyperthyroidism.
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