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- (from the article "alchemy") ...elixirs for metal ennoblement and for the preservation of health. His successors multiplied elixirs, which lost their uniqueness and finally simply became new medicines, often for specific ailments. Medical chemistry may have been conceived under Islam, but it was born ...
- Medical College of Virginia
- (from the article "Virginia Commonwealth University") public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Richmond, Virginia, U.S. It comprises the College of Humanities and Sciences and 12 other schools, including the School of Medicine on the Medical College of Virginia campus (also in Richmond). The university offers ...
- Medical College of Wisconsin
- (from the article "Marquette University") ...the university expanded to include medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, business, engineering, journalism, and law. In 1967 the medical school separated from Marquette, and in 1970 it became the Medical College of Wisconsin. Total enrollment is about 11,000.
- medical confidentiality
- (from the article "medical jurisprudence") Medicine and the law do not always work in harmony. The most common source of conflict is medical confidentiality. Some doctors claim that any information received from a patient during a medical consultation is subject ethically to absolute confidentiality and ...
- medical corps
- (from the article "medicine") The medical services of armies, navies, and air forces are geared to war. During campaigns the first requirement is the prevention of sickness. In all wars before the 20th century, many more combatants died of disease than of wounds. And ...
- Medical Council of Canada
- (from the article "medical education") ...Medical Examiners holds examinations leading to a degree that is acceptable to most state boards. National laws regulating professional practice cannot be enacted in the United States. In Canada the Medical Council of Canada conducts examinations and enrolls successful candidates ...
- medical education
- course of study directed toward imparting to persons seeking to become physicians the knowledge and skills required for the prevention and treatment of disease. It also develops the methods and objectives appropriate to the study of the still unknown factors ... [13 Related Articles]
- medical engineering
- (from the article "bioengineering") Medical engineering. Medical engineering concerns the application of engineering principles to medical problems, including the replacement of damaged organs, instrumentation, and the systems of health care, including diagnostic applications of computers.Agricultural engineering. This includes the application of engineering principles to ...
- medical ethics
- (from the article "ethics") A number of ethical questions are concerned with the endpoints of the human life span. The question of whether abortion or the use of human embryos as sources of stem cells can be morally justified was exhaustively discussed in popular ...
- medical genetics
- (from the article "eugenics") Despite the dropping of the term eugenics, eugenic ideas remain prevalent in many issues surrounding human reproduction. Medical genetics, a post-World War II medical specialty, encompasses a wide range of health concerns, from genetic screening and counseling to fetal gene ...
- medical geography
- (from the article "geography") ...investigations using census and other data are complemented by detailed case studies of decision making, such as whether and where to migrate and how relevant information is received and processed. Medical geography focuses on patterns of disease and death-of how ...
- medical history
- (from the article "diagnosis") The medical history of a patient is the most useful and important element in making an accurate diagnosis, much more valuable than either physical examinations or diagnostic tests. The medical interview is the process of gathering data that will lead ...
- medical insurance
- (from the article "health insurance") Health insurance may apply to a limited or comprehensive range of medical services and may provide for full or partial payment of the costs of specific services. Benefits may consist of the right to certain medical services or reimbursement to ...
- medical intelligence
- (from the article "intelligence") This is intelligence gained from studying every aspect of foreign natural and man-made environments that could affect the health of military forces. This information can be used not only to predict the medical weaknesses of an enemy but also to ...
- Medical International Cooperation Organization
- (from the article "CARE") ...programs, CARE organizes a number of projects, including land management, soil conservation, food distribution, nutrition, and nutrition education. Since 1962, CARE's services also have included the Medical International Cooperation Organization (MEDICO; founded 1958), which gives health care workers training for ...
- medical jurisprudence
- science that deals with the relation and application of medical facts to legal problems. Medical persons giving legal evidence may appear before courts of law, administrative tribunals, inquests, licensing agencies, boards of inquiry or certification, or other investigative bodies.
- medical research
- (from the article "animal disease") Although in modern times the practice of veterinary medicine has been separated from that of human medicine, the observations of the physician and the veterinarian continue to add to the common body of medical knowledge. Of the more than 1,200,000 ...
- Medical Research Council
- (from the article "Sanger, Frederick") In 1962 the Medical Research Council opened its new laboratory of molecular biology in Cambridge. The Austrian-born British biochemist Max Perutz, British biochemist John Kendrew, and British biophysicist Francis Crick moved to the new laboratory. Sanger joined them as head ...
- medical social worker
- (from the article "almoner") ...almoner has also been used in Britain for a trained social worker, usually a woman, qualified to work in a medical setting. In this sense "almoner" was superseded in 1964 by the title medical social worker, the term also used ...
- medical specialization
- (from the article "medicine") The obvious alternative to general practice is the direct access of a patient to a specialist. If a patient has problems with vision, he goes to an eye specialist, and if he has a pain in his chest (which he ...
- medical technology
- (from the article "technology, history of") An even more dramatic result of the growth in chemical knowledge has been the expansion of the modern pharmaceutical industry. The science of pharmacy emerged slowly from the traditional empiricism of the herbalist, but by the end of the 19th ...
- medical-grade biomaterial
- (from the article "materials science") ...the antioxidants and stabilizers that prevent premature oxidative degradation of polyetherurethanes. Other additives, such as pigments, can be eliminated from biomedical products. Indeed, a "medical-grade" biomaterial is one that has had nonessential additives and potential contaminants excluded or eliminated from ...
- medical-payment insurance
- (from the article "motor vehicle insurance") ...pays for damage to the insured car if it collides with another vehicle or object; comprehensive insurance pays for damage to the insured car resulting from fire or theft or many other causes; medical-payment insurance covers medical treatment for the ...
- Medicare and Medicaid
- two U.S. government programs that guarantee health insurance for the elderly and the poor, respectively. They were formally enacted in 1965 as amendments (Titles XVIII and XIX, respectively) to the Social Security Act (1935) and went into effect in 1966. [11 Related Articles]
- Medicare Modernization Act
- (from the article "Bush, George W.") In December 2003 Bush won Congressional approval of the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA), a reform of the federally sponsored health insurance program for elderly Americans. Widely recognized as the most far-reaching overhaul of Medicare to date, the MMA enabled Medicare ...
- Medicean-Laurentian Library
- collection of books and manuscripts gathered during the 15th century in Florence by Cosimo the Elder and Lorenzo the Magnificent, both members of the Medici family. Part of the collection was open to the public before 1494, but in that ... [4 Related Articles]
- Medici Chapel
- chapel housing monuments to members of the Medici family, in the New Sacristy of the Church of San Lorenzo in Florence. The funereal monuments were commissioned in 1520 by Pope Clement VII (formerly Cardinal Giulio de' Medici), executed largely by ... [3 Related Articles]
- Medici Family
- Italian bourgeois family that ruled Florence and, later, Tuscany, during most of the period from 1434 to 1737, except for two brief intervals (from 1494 to 1512 and from 1527 to 1530). It provided the church with four popes (Leo ... [22 Related Articles]
- Medici porcelain
- first European soft-paste porcelain, made in Florence between about 1575 and 1587 in workshops under the patronage of Francis I (Francesco de' Medici). It is thought that the body of Medici porcelain consists of glass, powdered rock crystal, and sand, ...
- Medici, Cosimo de'
- founder of one of the main lines of the Medici family that ruled Florence from 1434 to 1537. [10 Related Articles]
- Medici, Emilio Garrastazu
- (from the article "Brazil") In August 1969 Costa e Silva suffered a stroke, and the government was run by the ministers of the army, navy, and air force until October, when General Emilio Garrastazu Medici was selected as the new president. The government again ...
- Medici, Giovanni de'
- the most noted soldier of all the Medici.
- Medici, Giuliano de', Duc De Nemours
- ruler of Florence from 1512 to 1513, after the Medici were restored to power. [2 Related Articles]
- Medici, Ippolito de'
- one of the pawns in the civil strife of Florence in the 1520s and 1530s.
- Medici, Lorenzino de'
- assassin of Alessandro, grand duke of Tuscany. He was one of the more noted writers of the Medici family. [1 Related Articles]
- Medici, Lorenzo de'
- Florentine statesman, ruler, and patron of arts and letters, the most brilliant of the Medici. He ruled Florence with his younger brother, Giuliano (1453-78), from 1469 to 1478 and, after the latter's assassination, was sole ruler from 1478 to 1492. [15 Related Articles]
- Medici, Lorenzo di Pierfrancesca de'
- (from the article "Botticelli, Sandro") Perhaps it was Botticelli's skill in portraiture that gained him the patronage of the Medici family, in particular of Lorenzo de' Medici and his brother Giuliano, who then dominated Florence. Botticelli painted a portrait of Giuliano and posthumous portraits of ...
- Medici, Lorenzo di Piero de', Duca Di Urbino
- ruler of Florence from 1513 to 1519, to whom Niccolo Machiavelli addressed his treatise The Prince, counselling him to accomplish the unity of Italy by arming the whole nation and expelling its foreign invaders. [1 Related Articles]
- Medici, Luigi de'
- (from the article "Italy") In Naples the victorious powers made sure that the Bourbons would not repeat the reprisals of 1799. Thus, the restoration appeared to begin well under the balanced policies of a government led by Luigi de' Medici, who absorbed part of ...
- Medici, Maria Ludovica de'
- (from the article "art collection") ...collections of Europe's royalty began to be opened to public viewing, and eventually monarchs and aristocrats began donating their holdings to the public. The first notable example of this was Maria Ludovica, the grand duchess of Tuscany and last of ...
- Medici, Piero di Cosimo de'
- ruler of Florence for five years (1464-69), whose successes in war helped preserve the enormous prestige bequeathed by his father, Cosimo the Elder. [2 Related Articles]
- Medici, Piero di Lorenzo de'
- son of Lorenzo the Magnificent who ruled in Florence for only two years (1492-94) before being expelled. [1 Related Articles]
- Medici, Salvestro de'
- (from the article "Italy") In effect, the poor rose to revolt only at the prompting of members of the ruling class. So it was in the Revolt of the Ciompi of 1378. In June of that year Salvestro de' Medici, in an attempt to ...
- Medici, Villa
- (from the article "Andrea del Sarto") ...return, his connections with the Medici family (powerful since their return to Florence from exile in 1512) led to the most significant contract of his career-for part of the decoration of the Villa Medici at Poggio a Caiano, near Florence. ...
- Medici, Villa
- (c. 1540), important example of Mannerist architecture designed by Annibale Lippi and built in Rome for Cardinal Ricci da Montepulciano. It was later purchased by Ferdinando de' Medici and was occupied for a time by Cardinal Alessandro de' Medici (later ... [2 Related Articles]
- Medici-Riccardi, Palazzo
- (from the article "cortile") internal court surrounded by an arcade, characteristic of the Italian palace, or palazzo, during the Renaissance and its aftermath. Among the earliest examples are those of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi and the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, both of the late 15th ...
- medicinal leech
- (from the article "medicinal leech") any of certain leech species (phylum Annelida), particularly Hirudo medicinalis, once used in the treatment of human diseases and used at present as a source of anticoagulants following certain surgical procedures. See leeching.for more content related to this topic
- medicinal marijuana
- (from the article "Law, Crime, and Law Enforcement") In a marginally related case that involved medical treatment for the ill, the court in Gonzales v. Raich upheld the authority of Congress to ban the use of medicinal marijuana and to prosecute those who violated the law. The law ...
- medicinal plant
- (from the article "Alternative Medicine") ...reports on training for traditional birth attendants and on evaluating herbal medicines. Its Collaborating Centre for Drug Monitoring announced a new technology for patenting, testing, and approving medicinal plants. While maintaining an official interest in traditional medicine, WHO, however, progressively ...
- medicinal poisoning
- harmful effects on health of certain therapeutic drugs, resulting either from overdose or from the sensitivity of specific body tissues to regular doses (side effects).
- medicine
- the practice concerned with the maintenance of health and the prevention, alleviation, or cure of disease. [44 Related Articles]
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