Medicine
- D-cycloserine, (1) an anti-biotic used to treat tuberculosis; (2) its partial NMDA agonist properties have been shown to facilitate the extinction of fear and the treatment of anxiety disorders.
- Decompression sickness, a variety of symptoms suffered by a person exposed to a reduction in the pressure surrounding their body
- Dendritic cells, a type of antigen presenting cell of immunologic function
- Dorsal Column Stimulator, an implantable medical device used to treat chronic pain of neurologic origin
- Damage control surgery, a form of surgery which is used in cases of severe trauma
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Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“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)
“God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)