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The medical treatment of obesity. The field of medicine devoted to the treatment of obese persons. A medical term referring to the management of people who are overfat or obese. A branch of medicine focused on treatment and management of obesity. The branch of medicine dealing with obesity and related diseases. The branch of medicine…

A method of spinal analgesia by which cerebrospinal fluid is withdrawn and then injected back. Repeated injection and withdrawal of fluid, as in gastric lavage, or the administration of an anesthetic into the subarachnoid space by alternate injection of anesthetic and withdrawal of cerebrospinal fluid into the syringe.  

Poisoning caused by an overdose of barbiturates. Excessive sedation, sometimes accompanied by an inability to protect the airway; coma; shock; and hypothermia as a result of overdose with barbiturates. Agents commonly taken in overdose include secobarbital, phenobarbital, or butalbital.  

Being dependent on regularly taking barbiturate tablets.  

Repeated addictive use of barbiturates which in the end affects the brain. Barbiturates are depressant drugs that were initially designed to induce sleep and relieve anxiety or tension by slowing down the central nervous system. The sedative affect is much the same as alcohol’s and normally lasts for 3-6 hours at a time (Information on…

A form of elephantiasis, a large swelling of the leg due to a Filaria worm.  

Same as splenic anaemia [Described 1882. After Guido Banti (1852-1925), Florentine pathologist and physician.]  

An operation to repair a recurrent dislocation of the shoulder [First performed 1923. After Arthur Sydney Blundell Bankart (1879-1951), first orthopaedic surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital, London, UK.]  

A place where blood or organs from donors can be stored until needed. In medicine, storage of human materials for later use, usually by other persons (e.g., blood bank, eye bank, sperm bank). A stored supply of body fluids or tissues for use in another individual (e.g., blood bank, eye bank, kidney bank, tissue bank).…