Health Sciences

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• schizophrenia

  A chronic mental condition or disorder in which an individual cannot think, feel, or perceive reality that relates to others.
• source (of infection)

  The person, animal, object, or substance from which an infectious agent is transmitted to a host.
• spinal cord

  It’s a neurological tube that runs in the vertebral column and connect to the base of the brain.
• steatorrhea

  Oily or fatty stool.
• strabismus/squint

  It is a condition in which eyes cannot look in the same direction at the same time.
• symptom

  A sign or indication that someone has a disease.
• syndrome

  A combination of signs and symptoms characteristic of a disease or health condition; sometimes refers to a health condition without a clear cause.
• telemedicine

  Telemedicine uses technology, such as videoconferencing and remote patient monitoring, to provide real-time health care at a distance and allow doctors and patients to communicate and consult from afar. With the current widespread restrictions on in-person office visits, the use of telemedicine by medical and dental practices is rapidly expanding.
• tuberculosis

  Infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
• umbilical cord

  It is a structure that contains blood vessels supplying and draining blood between placenta and the foetus.
• variant

  A micro-organism variant is an isolate whose genome sequence differs from that of a reference virus. No inference is made about whether the change in genome sequence causes any change in the phenotype of the virus.
• vector

  A living intermediary that carries an agent from a reservoir to a susceptible host (see also transmission, biologic and transmission, mechanical) (e.g., mosquitoes, fleas, or ticks).
• virulence

  The ability of an infectious agent to cause severe disease, measured as the proportion of persons with the disease who become severely ill or die.
• absolute poverty

  A household experiences absolute poverty when its income falls below a level that prevents the family from meeting basic needs, such as food, shelter, safe drinking water, education, and healthcare.