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Showing none of a particular antibody in the blood.  

A laboratory technique which establishes to what degree an organism is sensitive to an antibiotic. A record of the susceptibility of specific pathogenic bacteria to antibiotics. Such susceptibility varies from hospital to hospital, state to state, and country to country. Antibiograms are constructed from cultural and other data accumulated in clinical laboratories. They help clinicians…

Referring to a drug that is used to treat asthma. A substance that alleviates the bronchial spasms associated with asthma. A compound that relieves the spasms associated with asthma.  

Referring to something such as a cosmetic which will not aggravate an allergy. Preventing the onset of allergies.  

A lung disease caused by breathing coal dust. Chronic lung disease, occurring in coal miners and others exposed to coal dust and soot characterized by black deposits on the lungs and bronchi and impaired lung function. Lung disease caused by inhalation of coal dust; also known as “black lung disease”. The change which takes place…

The tilting forward of an organ, whether usual, as of the uterus, or unusual. Forward tilting of organ or part of an organ; forward tilting of uterus over the bladder. The term applied to the forward tilting of an organ, especially of the uterus. A tipping forward of an organ as a whole, without bending.…

A condition of the eye, where the iris sticks to the cornea.  

A projection at the front end of the iliac crest of the pelvis.  

A small jugular vein in the neck.  

The cartilage at the top of the head where the frontal bone joins the two parietals. The diamond-shaped junction of the coronal, frontal, and sagittal sutures; it becomes ossified within 18 to 24 months.