Medical
- Diethylstilbestrol, a synthetic estrogen and the origin of the phrase "DES daughter"
- DES gene, which encodes the desmin protein
- Diffuse esophageal spasm, a disorder of the esophagus
- Dissociative Experiences Scale, a questionnaire to screen for Dissociative identity disorder
- Drug-eluting stent, a medical device
- Dysequilibrium syndrome, a congenital disorder of the nervous system
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Famous quotes containing the word medical:
“They said I’d never get you back again.
I tell you what you’ll never really know:
all the medical hypothesis
that explained my brain will never be as true as these
struck leaves letting go.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Unusual precocity in children, is usually the result of an unhealthy state of the brain; and, in such cases, medical men would now direct, that the wonderful child should be deprived of all books and study, and turned to play or work in the fresh air.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)
“There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an irony it would be if fanatics continued to kill and yet it was the apathy and silence of the medical profession that most wounded the ability to provide what is, after all, a medical procedure.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)