Category: M

Action by a professional person such as a doctor which is considered wrong.  

To have a miscarriage.  

A drug which makes the pupil of the eye become smaller. To or causing constriction of the pupil of the eye, as a miotic drug (e.g., pilocarpine). A drug that causes the pupil of the eye to contract. Miotics, such as physostigmine and pilocarpine, are used to counteract the dilation of the pupil caused by…

A hospital department which treats most accidents and emergencies.  

An illness which is not serious.  

Not very serious or life-threatening. Less important or serious than others of the same type. A person under the legally defined age of adulthood (majority) and therefore normally required to be in the custody of parent, foster parent, guardian, or other legally responsible supervision; in legal terms, a child or infant unable to act as…

The smallest amount of a substance required to kill someone or something.  

Smallest possible.  

Surgery which involves the least possible disturbance to the body. It often uses lasers and other high-tech devices. More popularly called ‘keyhole surgery’, MIS is surgical intervention, whether diagnostic or curative, that causes patients the least possible physical trauma. It has revolutionized surgery, growing from a technique used by gynaecologists, urologists and innovative general surgeons…

A liquid measure used in pharmacy (one sixtieth of a drachm).