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A drug used in the treatment of severe acne and several other skin diseases. A drug used to treat severe acne. Isotretinoin (Accutane) is prescribed only after milder medications, including antibiotics, have failed to clear up the acne. Isotretinoin works by shrinking oil glands within the skin, thereby diminishing the amount of oil they produce.…

The equal osmotic pressure of two or more solutions.  

A compound which causes widening or relaxation of the blood vessels, used in the treatment of angina pectoris. Drug used to treat angina pectoris and congestive heart failure. Adverse effects include hypotension, dizziness, and headache. A drug used to relieve or prevent angina (chest pain). Isosorbide dinitrate (Isordil, Sorbitrate, Dilatrate, and others) relieves angina pectoris…

A drug that relieves asthma by widening the bronchial tubes in the lungs. A sympathomimetic drug used to dilate the air passages in asthma and other bronchial conditions. It also stimulates the heart and is used to treat some heart conditions involving reduced heart activity. It is administered by inhalation, by mouth, by injection, or…

A colourless crystalline compound that is used in the treatment of tuberculosis. Drug used to treat tuberculosis. Adverse effects include disturbances of peripheral nerve fiinction, liver toxicity, rashes, and fever. An antibiotic used to treat tuberculosis (TB). Isoniazid (Laniazid, Nydrazid) is used to prevent TB in people who have been exposed to it but have…

A large clear plastic bag in which a person can be nursed, or operated on, in a sterile environment. A room or piece of equipment which keeps people or substances separated from others which may contaminate them.  

Special ward where people who have dangerous infectious diseases can be kept isolated from others.  

Immunisation of a person with antigens derived from another person. The immunisation of a person by an antigen they do not have but which is present in other people. For example, a rhesus-negative mother does not carry the rhesus antigen. If she carries a rhesus-positive baby, passage of the rhesus antigen from the baby into…

An antibody which forms in one person as a reaction to antigens from another person. Antibody that occurs naturally against foreign tissues of a person of the same species. An antibody that occurs naturally against the components of foreign tissues from an individual of the same species. An antibody produced in response to an isoantigen.…

Charts used in a test for colour vision in which numbers or letters are shown in dots of primary colours with dots of other colours around them. People with normal colour vision can see them, but people who are colour-blind cannot.