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Diagnosis (Med.), the discovery of the source of a patient's illness....
wrongful birth
wrongful birth : a malpractice claim brought by the parents of a child born with a birth defect against a physician or health-care provider whose alleged negligence (as in prenatal testing or diagnosis) effectively deprived the parents of the opportunity to make an informed decision whether to avoid or terminate the pregnancy ;also : the birth or injury at issue in such a claim [recognize a cause of action for wrongful birth] NOTE: Two factors behind the general recognition of the wrongful birth claim are scientific advances in prenatal diagnosis of birth defects and the legalization of abortion. Wrongful birth and wrongful life are distinct from malpractice claims alleging actual physical injury to a fetus caused by a negligently performed procedure. ...
Physiotherapist
Physiotherapist, means a person who possesses physiotherapy qualification obtained from a recognised institution specified in Sch. II and whose name has been enrolled in the Register of Physiotherapists. [Maharashtra State Council for Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Act, 2002, s. 2(h)]Means a branch of modern medical science which includes examination, assessment, interpretation, physical diagnosis planning and execution or treatment and advice to any person for the purpose of preventing, correcting, alleviating and limiting dysfunction, acute and chronic bodily malfunction including life saving measures via chest physio-therapy in the intensive care units, curing physical disorders or disability promoting physical fitness, facilitating healing and pain relief and treatment of physical and psychosomatic disorders through modulaing psysiological and physical response using physical agents, activities and devices including exercises, mobilization, manipulations, therapeutic ultras...
business records exception
business records exception : an exception to the hearsay rule that allows admission into evidence of records, reports, compilations of data, or memoranda of an event, act, condition, opinion, or diagnosis that are made at or near the time of the event by a person with knowledge or from information transmitted by a person with knowledge and that are made as a regular practice of the business ...
Cerebroscopy
Examination of the brain for the diagnosis of disease esp the act or process of diagnosticating the condition of the brain by examination of the interior of the eye as with an ophthalmoscope...
Diagnose
To ascertain by diagnosis to diagnosticate See Diagnosticate...
Diagnosis
The art or act of recognizing the presence of disease from its signs or symptoms and deciding as to its character also the decision arrived at...
Diagnostic
Pertaining to or furnishing a diagnosis indicating the nature of a disease...
Diagnosticate
To make a diagnosis of to recognize by its symptoms as a disease...
Endoscope
An instrument for examining the interior of the body consisting of a flexible tube with lenses and optical fibers permitting illumination of the interior site to be inspected and visualization of the interior site from outside the body it often has small surgical instruments attached to the end and manipulable from the outside permitting biopsy or surgery It is used as a non invasive or minimally invasive tool for diagnosis or treatment especially in organs having an external opening such as the rectum the urethra and the bladder...
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