Glossary of medicine

This glossary of medical terms is a list of definitions about medicine, its sub-disciplines, and related fields. *Cardiology – is a branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the heart as well as parts of the circulatory system.

*Cardiology – is a branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the heart as well as parts of the circulatory system.

*AAS – Aarskog-Scott syndrome.

*Abdomen – The part of the body between the chest and pelvis, which contains most of the tubelike organs of the digestive tract, as well as several solid organs.

*Abdomen – The part of the body between the chest and pelvis, which contains most of the tubelike organs of the digestive tract, as well as several solid organs.

*Abdominal internal oblique muscle – A muscle of the abdominal wall, which lies below the external oblique and just above the transverse abdominal muscles.

*Abdominal internal oblique muscle – A muscle of the abdominal wall, which lies below the external oblique and just above the transverse abdominal muscles. *Abdominal external oblique muscle – The largest, and outermost, of the three flat muscles of the lateral anterior abdominal wall.

*Abdominal internal oblique muscle – A muscle of the abdominal wall, which lies below the external oblique and just above the transverse abdominal muscles.

*Abductor pollicis brevis muscle – A muscle in the hand that abducts (straightens) the thumb.

*Abductor pollicis longus muscle – One of the extrinsic muscles of the hand.

*Abscess – A collection of pus that has built up within the tissue of the body.

*Abscess – A collection of pus that has built up within the tissue of the body.

*Accommodation – the process by which the eye focuses on an object.

*Accommodation reflex – a reflex action of the eye, measured as a response to focusing on a near object, then looking at a distant object (and vice versa).