deglove v.— «Open procedures involve incisions made along the nose or under the lip, lifting the face in a technique called facial degloving, and moving bone—potentially the upper jaw and cheekbone—and sometimes brain out of the way...
suitcase college n.— «Dr. Pinkham said Connecticut had been one scene of the operations [of ] “suitcase colleges and vendors of harlequin diplomas.”» —“Nation Menaced by “Mountebank” Medical...
heroic dose n.— «Antibiotic therapy in the form of Penicillin, chloramphenicol, or tetracycline should be started promptly in heroic doses.» —by Glen C. Craig U.S. Army Special Forces Medical Handbook May, 1988. (source:...
heroic dose n.— «An ounce in twenty-four hours, and a drachm at a dose, are heroic prescriptions, and not to be generally imitated.…In cases wherein the physician might be tempted to overstep nature with these heroic doses of...
heroic dose n.— «One drop of it was fully as efficient as curiosity in killing a cat.…An early nineteenth century pharmacopoeia lists a tobacco enema. About the same time the surgeon and anatomist, Sir Ashley Cooper, recommended...
terminal wean n.— «In twelve cases they performed a procedure called, in only mildly obscurantist language, a “terminal wean.” (Although neither doctors nor nurses literally “pull the plug,” the process is dramatic...