Medicine
- Camptothecin, an anti-cancer drug
- Carnitine palmitoyltransferase I, a mitochondrial enzyme
- Certified Psychiatric Technician, a variety of employees with bachelors degrees or less who are providing direct care to individuals with mental illnesses and/or developmental disabilities; a credential offered through the American Association of Psychiatric Technicians (AAPT)
- Charged particle therapy, a type of radiotherapy that uses charged particles
- Chest physiotherapy, a treatment in which a respiratory therapist percusses an individual's chest with his or her hands to dislodge sputum and encourage its expectoration, for example for patients with cystic fibrosis
- Continuous Performance Task, a psychological test that consists of a series of stimuli
- Current Procedural Terminology, a code set maintained by the American Medical Association that describes medical, surgical, and diagnostic services
- Custom Procedure Trays, in hospitals
- Cyclopentyltheophylline, in biochemistry, a potent and selective adenosine receptor antagonist
- Troparil, a dopamine reuptake inhibitor
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Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“Good medicine is bitter, but it cures illness.”
—Chinese proverb.
Confucius.
“For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection,—for recalling to, not for keeping in mind.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.”
—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (b. 1926)