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A form of adult day care providing rehabilitative, medical, and personal care services as well as social and recreational services for older adults.  

Infection by the fungus Geotrichum, which usually attacks the lungs, causing symptoms resembling those of chronic bronchitis or tuberculosis. This infection may also affect the mouth or intestine.  

The study of the influence of geography and climate on health.  

Any of the tropical soil worms, including ascaris, hookworm, and Trichuris trichiura (whipworm), that may parasitize human beings and other organisms.  

An ulcer of the cornea with an irregular and lobulated border.  

The relationship between the prevalence of a disease and specific geographical-environmental conditions. For example, goiter occurs in inland iodine-deficient areas of the U.S., and pulmonary hypertension occurs in those who reside at high altitude. Certain infectious diseases, such as leprosy, leishmaniasis, and Chagas’ disease, are endemic in specific tropical or subtropical areas.  

The tendency of a scientist or educator to refer only to those journal articles published in his or her own country or native language. As a result of this bias, American health care educators are more likely to cite studies reported in the New England Journal of Medicine than in the (British) journal Lancet.  

A subchondral (bony) cyst occasionally found in patients with rheumatological illnesses.  

A genus of heat-and pressure-resistant motile gram-positive aerobic or facultatively anaerobic spore-forming rod-shaped bacteria. The bacteria thrive at temperatures from 35° to 75°C. The ability of this genus to survive at high temperatures is used as a biological indicator of the effectiveness of sterilizers used in medicine and dentistry.  

A lateral alignment of the femur and tibia of greater than 195 degrees.