Category: G

In public health and medical statistics, a chaotic set of data from which conclusions are injudiciously drawn. Because the sample is not carefully randomized or scientifically selected, the conclusions derived from such sample groups may be inaccurate.  

Rubbing of the entire body with moist salt for stimulation.  

A medical education procedure, used especially in teaching hospitals, in which all aspects of a patient’s condition, management, and problems encountered are presented to faculty members, medical students, and health care workers. This provides an opportunity for all concerned to ask questions and provide comments on the patient’s diagnosis, care, and clinical program. The patient…

Competition between the sexes for status and compensation, especially in business, politics, and sports.  

A ridge extending obliquely downward from the greater trochanter of the femur for attachment of the gluteus maximus muscle.  

A ridge that develops on the ventromedial surface of the urogenital ridge and gives rise to the gonads.  

The 50-per-second rhythm seen in the electroencephalogram.  

A flow of thin watery material from the nose while one is eating.  

Making precise adjustments in a septic patient’s hemodynamics, oxygenation, and volume status in an attempt to optimize his or her chances of survival.  

Surgical resection of all or a part of the stomach.