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Health screening. A test for a particular disease which is given to people who have no symptoms in order to identify how many of them have that disease or are showing early signs of it. Tests given to see if someone has certain characteristics, especially problems. Among the common types are genetic screening tests, seeking…

Relatively superficial evaluations of a person’s health status designed to identify obvious deviations from normal. The use of quick, simple procedures to identify and separate apparently well persons who have, or have a risk of having, a disease from those who probably do not have the disease. It is used to identify suspects for more…

A skin test in which a small scratch is made on the skin of the forearm by a small needle wherein a substance is placed to determine the body’s reaction to the substance. A test for allergy, in which a small amount of a substance is placed on a lightly scratched area of skin to…

Test profile.  

A sexual variance characterized by the person gaining sexual gratification from viewing sexual acts and genitalia.  

An alkaloid obtained from various plants in the nightshade family. Used medicinally as a sedative hypnotic. A colourless thick liquid poisonous alkaloid found in some plants of the nightshade family. It is used especially to prevent motion sickness and as a sedative. Anticholinergic drug used to treat nausea and vomiting, to sedate, and in ophthalmic…

The entire range of organizing elements considered within the discipline of health education sequence.  

A split-frame stretcher. A type of stretcher formed of two jointed sections which can slide under someone and lock together.  

The head of a tapeworm that is adorned with suckers for attachment. The head of a tapeworm. The presence of suckers and/or hooks on the scolex enables the worm to attach itself to the wall of its host’s gut. The headlike segment of a tapeworm, by which it attaches itself to the wall of the…

Thickening or hardening of tissues sclerosis.