Medications

Neoplasia: The process of abnormal and uncontrolled growth of cells. The product of neoplasia is a neoplasm (a tumor).Last Editorial Review: 4/27/2011 5:27:15 PM...

Neophobia - Medical

Neophobia: Fear of anything new, of innovation, an irrational fear of new situations, places, or things. In animal behavior, neophobia refers to the tendency of an animal to avoid or retreat from an unfamiliar object or situation. All phobias a...

Neonatology - Medical

Neonatology: The art and science of caring medically for the newborn. Last Editorial Review: 4/27/2011 5:27:15 PM...

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Neonatologist - Medical

Neonatologist: A specialist in the care of the newborn. Last Editorial Review: 4/27/2011 5:27:15 PM...

Neonate - Medical

Neonate: A newborn baby. Last Editorial Review: 4/27/2011 5:27:15 PM...

Tridione (trimethadione-oral)

Neonatal sepsis - Medical

Neonatal sepsis: A serious blood bacterial infection in an infant less than 4 weeks of age. Babies with sepsis may be listless, overly sleepy, floppy, weak, and very pale. Last Editorial Review: 4/27/2011 5:27:15 PM Medical Auth...

Neonatal mortality rate - Medical

Neonatal mortality rate: The number of children dying under 28 days of age divided by the number of live births that year. The neonatal mortality rate in the United States, which was 8.4 per 1,000 live births in 1980, declined to 5.8 per 1,000 liv...

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Neonatal lupus - Medical

Neonatal lupus: A lupus-like disease in a baby due to the transfer through the placenta of lupus antibodies from the mother who has lupus to the fetus. (By lupus here is meant SLE -- systemic lupus erythematosus.) Neonatal lupus can cause a decrease...

Neonatal jaundice - Medical

Neonatal jaundice: Yellowish staining of the skin and whites of the newborn's eyes (sclerae) by pigment of bile (bilirubin). In newborn babies a degree of jaundice is normal. It is due to the breakdown of red blood cells (which release bil...

Neonatal intensive care unit - Medical

Neonatal intensive care unit: An intensive care unit designed for premature and ill newborn babies. Abbreviated NICU. Also called a newborn intensive care unit.Last Editorial Review: 5/17/2003...

Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia - Medical

Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia: Elevation of the bilirubin level in the blood of the newborn, which results in yellowish staining of the skin and whites of the newborn's eyes (sclerae) by pigment of bile (bilirubin). In newborn babies a degree ...

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Neonatal chloramphenicol toxicity - Medical

Neonatal chloramphenicol toxicity: See: Gray baby syndrome. Last Editorial Review: 8/1/2004 Gray baby syndrome: A syndrome due to toxicity of the antibiotic chloramphenicol in the newborn, especially the premature newborn, because of lack the n...

Neonatal - Medical

Neonatal: Pertaining to the newborn period which, by convention, is the first four weeks after birth. Last Editorial Review: 4/27/2011 5:27:15 PM...

Neocortex - Medical

Neocortex: The newer portion of the cerebral cortex that serves as the center of higher mental functions for humans. The neocortex contains some 100 billion cells, each with 1,000 to 10,000 synapses (connections), and has roughly 100 million meters o...

Neo- (prefix) - Medical

Neo- (prefix): Prefix meaning new. From the Greek "neos", new, young, fresh, recent. Examples of terms starting with "neo-" include neonatal and neonate (the newborn), neoplasia and neoplasm (new growth = tumor), etc. The opposite of neo- is...

Nematodes - Medical

Nematodes: Roundworms. Last Editorial Review: 3/26/1998 2:27:00 PM...

NEJM - Medical

NEJM: The New England Journal of Medicine.Last Editorial Review: 6/24/2004 New England Journal of Medicine: Despite its regional name, The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is far from provincial. It is an eminent weekly national and internatio...

Neisseria infection - Medical

Neisseria infection: See: Meningococcal infection.Last Editorial Review: 12/11/2003 Meningococcal infection: Infection with the bacterium Neisseria meningitidis. (Neisseria was formerly called Meningococcus and the term "meningococcal" is still entr...

Neisseria - Medical

Neisseria: Group of bacteria that includes the cause of gonorrhea. Last Editorial Review: 4/27/2011 5:27:15 PM...

Tri-Luma (fluocinolone/tretinoin/hydroquinone-topical)

NEI - Medical

NEI: Stands for National Eye Institute, one of the US National Institutes of Health. NEI's mission is to "conduct and support research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs with respect to blinding eye diseases, v...

Negative-strand RNA virus - Medical

Negative-strand RNA virus: Also known as an antisense-strand RNA virus, a virus whose genetic information consists of a single strand of RNA that is the negative or antisense strand which does not encode mRNA (messenger RNA). Examples of negative-str...

Negative, false - Medical

Negative, false: A result that appears negative but fails to reveal a situation. An example of a false negative: a particular test designed to detect cancer of the toenail is negative but the person has toenail cancer.Last Editorial Review: 4/27/20...

Negative calorie diet - Medical

Negative calorie diet: The Negative calorie diet is a weight loss concept based upon the premise that consumption of foods with a "negative caloric effect" (meaning that the calories burned by chewing, digesting, and eliminating the food are ...

Nef gene - Medical

Nef gene: Short for negative factor gene, a gene the absence (or defect) of which diminishes the strength of a disease. The term Nef gene was coined in 1989 in respect to HIV (the human immunodeficiency virus) and AIDS. The Nef gene in this situat...

Needlestick injury - Medical

Needlestick injury: A penetrating stab wound from a needle (or other sharp object) that may result in exposure to blood or other body fluids. The main concern is exposure to the blood or other body fluids of another person who may be carrying infecti...