Medicine
- Blood-alcohol content, aka Blood-alcohol level
- bioartificial liver - a medical procedure in which isolated hepatocytes are being used to provide temporary support for liver failure
- Ongoing brain activity aka Brain Activity Level
- Bronchoalveolar lavage, a medical procedure for obtaining a sample from within the lungs
- British anti-Lewisite Dimercaprol used in the treatment of arsenic, mercury and lead, and other heavy metal poisoning, and the antidote for the blister agent Lewisite
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Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienest who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous.... The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“We gave ‘em wings to fly and they rained death on us. We gave ‘em a voice to be heard around the world and they preach hatred to poison the minds of nations. Even the medicine we gave them to ease their pain is turned into a vice to enslave half mankind for the profit of a few. Ah, Janet, dear, don’t you see? Every gift that science has given them has been twisted into a thing of hate and greed.”
—Karl Brown (1897–1990)
“Authority, though it err like others,
Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself,
That skins the vice o’ the top.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)