Medicine
- Sliding-Scale Insulin, a method of insulin administration
- Solid State Intelligence, a malevolent entity described by John C. Lilly
- Stress-strain index, a measure of bone strength
- Surgical site infection, this term is preferred over "Surgical Wound Infection"
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Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“After you eat always take a walk, and you’ll never have to go to a medicine shop.”
—Chinese proverb.
Rhyme.
“In view of the fact that the number of people living too long has risen catastrophically and still continues to rise.... Question: Must we live as long as modern medicine enables us to?... We control our entry into life, it is time we began to control our exit.”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)
“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)