Some medical terms can be hard to understand. These easy-to-read definitions can help.

A

• What Are Abdominals?
• What Are Arteries and Veins?
• What Is Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS)?
• What's Addiction?
• What's Aerobic Activity?
• What's an Asthma Action Plan?
• What's an Asthma Flare-Up?

B

• What Are Braces?
• What Are Bronchial Tubes?
• What Are Bruises?
• What Is Bell's Palsy?
• What Is Breast Cancer?

C

• What Are Carbohydrates?
• What Are Chromosomes?
• What Is Cellulitis?

D

• What Are Depressants?
• What Is DNA?

E

• What's Enuresis?

G

• What Is a Glycosylated Hemoglobin Test (Hemoglobin A1c)?
• What's Glycogen?

H

• What Does Hearing Loss Mean?
• What Is Hydrocortisone?

I

• What Are Involuntary Muscles?
• What's Immunotherapy (Allergy Shots)?
• What's the ICU?

J

• What's Junk Food?
• What's Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis?

K

• What Are Ketones?
• What Are Kidney Stones?

L

• What Is Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS)?
• What Is a Lung Function Test?
• What's Lyme Disease?

M

• What Are Migraines?
• What's Mononucleosis?
• What's a Microscope?
• What's a Mucous Membrane?

N

• What Does Nutrition Mean?
• What's a Nasal Cavity?
• What's the Navel?
• What's the Nervous System?

P

• What Are Papillae?
• What Are Pupils?
• What Is Parkinson's Disease?
• What Is Polydipsia?
• What's Pollen?
• What's Protein?

R

• What Are Red Blood Cells?
• What Are Retractions?
• What Does Rx Mean?
• What's Ringworm?

S

• What Are Sebaceous Glands?
• What Are Semicircular Canals?
• What's Sinusitis?
• What's a Stethoscope?
• What's a Stye?
• What's the Stapes?

T

• What's Tobacco?
• What's Tonsillitis?

V

• What's a Virus?

W

• What Are White Blood Cells?

Y

• What's Yellow Fever?
• What's a Yeast Infection?

Note: All information is for educational purposes only. For specific medical advice, diagnoses, and treatment, consult your doctor.

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