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- Arthritis [r]: A group of medical conditions where there is damage caused to the joints of the body. [e]
- Aspirin [r]: Common analgesic used for treating mild to moderate pain; protective against blood clots and heart disease when administered indefinitely in low doses [e]
- Asthma [r]: Disease process that is characterised by paradoxical narrowing of the bronchi, making breathing difficult. [e]
- Colchicine [r]: Poisonous, pale-yellow alkaloid obtained from the seed capsules, corms, and bulbs of the meadow saffron, used in plant breeding to induce chromosome doubling and in medicine to treat gout. [e]
- Corticosteroid [r]: Steroid hormones mainly produced by the adrenal cortex. [e]
- Cortisol [r]: Naturally-occuring glucocorticoid hormone which reduces inflammation. [e]
- Cortisone [r]: A naturally occuring glucocorticoid steroid hormone which reduced inflammation. [e]
- Drug toxicity [r]: Manifestations of the adverse effects of drugs administered therapeutically or in the course of diagnostic techniques (U.S. National Library of Medicine). [e]
- Drugs banned from the Olympics [r]: Substances prohibited for use by athletes prior to, and during competing in the Olympics. [e]
- Eplerenone [r]: An aldosterone receptor agonist, similar to spironolactone. [e]
- Food and Drug Administration [r]: The agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services responsible for regulating food, dietary supplements, drugs, biological medical products, blood products, medical devices, radiation-emitting devices, veterinary products, and cosmetics. [e]
- Gout [r]: Disturbance of uric-acid metabolism, characterized by painful inflammation of the joints, especially of the feet, from the deposition of urate crystals. [e]
- Hormone [r]: A chemical director of biological activity that travels through some portion of the body as a messenger. [e]
- Hydrocortisone [r]: The most important human glucocorticoid, a steroid hormone, produced by the adrenal cortex. [e]
- Hypothalamus [r]: A part of the mammalian brain located below the thalamus, forming the major portion of the ventral region of the diencephalon. [e]
- Immediate hypersensitivity [r]: Humoral reaction, mediated by the circulating B lymphocytes, which causes any of three responses: anaphylactic, cytotoxic, and immune system hypersensitivity. [e]
- Ketoconazole [r]: Ketoconazole is an azole-based antifungal drug [e]
- Mephenytoin [r]: Anticonvulsant medication used to treat epilepsy, particularly effective in tonic-clonic epilepsy. [e]
- Midodrine [r]: An adrenergic alpha agonist used as a vasoconstrictor agent in the treatment of hypotension. [e]
- Natural stress relief meditation [r]: A relaxation technique, which is one of the various subtypes of mind-body interactions included in complementary and alternative medicine. It is a means of managing the effects of excessive stress. [e]
- Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agent [r]: Medication other than corticosteroids having analgesic, antipyretic and anti-inflammatory activity due to their ability to inhibit the synthesis of prostaglandins. [e]
- Obstructive lung disease [r]: Group of usually progressive lung disorders with overlapping signs and symptoms, including asthma, bronchiectasis, chronic bronchitis, and emphysema. [e]
- Osteoporosis [r]: Reduction of bone mass without alteration in the composition of bone, leading to fractures. [e]
- Prednisolone [r]: A glucocorticoid steroid and the active metabolite of the commonly used synthetic drug prednisone. [e]
- Prednisone [r]: A synthetic anti-inflammatory glucocorticoid steroid designed as a mimic of the naturally occuring steroid cortisone. [e]
- Steroid [r]: Hormone group that controls metabolism, catabolism, growth, electrolyte balance and sexual characteristics. [e]
- Stress (physiology) [r]: Pathological process resulting from the reaction of the body to external forces and conditions that tend to disturb the organism's homeostasis. [e]
