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An enzyme produced by the pancreas, which breaks down fats in the intestine. Lipase is an enzyme found in the pancreatic juice.  

A treatment for respiratory disease in which someone breathes in steam with medicinal substances in it. A technique for alleviating certain symptoms associated with colds, sinusitis, and laryngitis involves inhaling vapor emanating from a container of hot water. The moisture helps to loosen nasal and throat secretions, facilitating their easier clearance.  

The time which someone spends in a place. A postponement of an administrative or a judicial ruling.  

Organisations set up by Acts of Parliament to carry out specific functions, e.g. the Nursing and Midwifery Council, set up to regulate the nursing and midwifery professions.  

A condition in which the glands in the lymphatic system are enlarged. Enlargement of the thymus and other parts of the lymphatic system, formerly believed to be a predisposing cause to sudden death in infancy and childhood associated with hypersensitivity to drugs or vaccines. A state where the body’s lymphoid tissues, particularly the thymus gland…

A general feeling.  

The condition of something or of a person. A particular circumstance of a living being that exhibits variations either in its structure or in its physiological processes or sometimes both, during different intervals of its existence. Situations that necessitate a predetermined sequence of events are called stages.  

A diet which contains little nourishment, and is not enough to keep a person healthy.  

The fact of having had very little or no food. Involuntary absence of feeding. Condition resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period and characterized by weight loss, widespread physiologic and metabolic disturbances, and increased susceptibility to infection. Suffering extremely or dying of a lack of food. Starvation occurs primarily during famine conditions…

The usual response of a young baby to a sudden loud noise or a sudden fall through the air, by contracting the limb and neck muscles. Alternate term for Moro’s reflex, a type of “primitive” reflex found only in babies that disappears in three to four months. An instinctive response observed in newborn infants, resembling…