Author: Glossary

Muscular dystrophy, with progressive weakening of the muscles, particularly in the pelvic and shoulder girdles. A type of motor neuron disease in which the muscles of the hands, arms, and legs weaken and waste or atrophy. Involuntary twitching is another symptom. There is no cure for progressive muscular atrophy. This progressively debilitating condition eventually spreads…

More and more.  

A condition, common in people as they get older, in which a person gradually becomes more and more deaf.  

Development and improvement. The way in which a person is becoming well. The ongoing sequence of events of an illness.  

A series of medical treatments given in a set way at set times.  

A test to suggest how a disease will develop or how long a person will survive after an operation.  

Referring to a prognosis.  

A jaw which protrudes further than the other.  

Any substance which has the same effect as progesterone. One of a group of naturally occurring or synthetic steroid hormones, including progesterone, that maintain the normal course of pregnancy. Progestogens are used to treat threatened or habitual abortion, premenstrual tension, amenorrhea, and abnormal bleeding from the womb. Because they prevent ovulation, progestogens are a major…

A surgical operation to widen a junction of the femoral artery, in order to relieve narrowing by atherosclerosis. An operation to repair an obstructing lesion in a deep blood vessel, for example, of the deep femoral artery.