Medicine
- Spinal muscular atrophy, a motor neuron disease, or any of other related conditions known collectively as spinal muscular atrophies
- Superior mesenteric artery, a blood vessel supplying the pancreas and part of the intestine
- Supplementary motor area, part of the sensorimotor cortex
- Sequential Multiple Analysis, the old name for a panel of clinical chemistry lab tests, see Comprehensive metabolic panel
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Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“No medicine in the world can do thee good;
In thee there is not half an hour’s life.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“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)