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United States Department of Health and Human Services, Radiation Emergency Medical Management
A substance that causes an allergic response. Examples include pollen, molds, and certain foods.
Industry:Health care
Uncontrollable craving, seeking, and use of a substance such as a drug or alcohol.
Industry:Health care
Feelings of fear, dread, and uneasiness that may occur as a reaction to stress. A person with anxiety may sweat, feel restless and tense, and have a rapid heart beat. Extreme anxiety that happens often over time may be a sign of an anxiety disorder.
Industry:Health care
A hypersensitive immune reaction to a substance that normally is harmless or would not cause an immune response in most people. An allergic response may cause harmful symptoms such as itching or inflammation or tissue injury.
Industry:Health care
The largest artery in the body. It carries oxygen-rich blood away from the heart to vessels that reach the rest of the body.
Industry:Health care
A condition in which the body recognizes its own tissues as foreign and directs an immune response against them.
Industry:Health care
Practices used instead of standard treatments. They generally are not recognized by the medical community as standard or conventional medical approaches. Examples of alternative medicine include dietary supplements, megadose vitamins, herbal preparations, special teas, acupuncture, massage therapy, magnet therapy, spiritual healing, and meditation.
Industry:Health care
One of several molecules that join together to form proteins. There are 20 common amino acids found in proteins.
Industry:Health care
