Category: M

The person or agency responsible for making final decisions about emergency medical care provided by first responders and emergency medical technicians.  

A systematic approach to reviewing, analyzing, and evaluating medical care in order to identify discrepancies in the quality of care and to provide a mechanism for improving that quality.  

The study of the impact of biology, culture, ecology, economics, environment, language, politics, and society on healing, health, health care, illness, and treatment.  

The right or ability of an individual to obtain medical and health care services.  

Inflammatory condition of the mediastinum and pericardium.  

A rasping sound, similar to the noise made when leather rubs against leather, that is heard on listening to the heart of a patient with air in the mediastinum. The sound usually is detected during cardiac systole but also may vary in intensity with breathing.  

Patellar pain, and a feeling of instability, clicking, or locking of the knee as a result of inflammation of the medial synovial fold of the knee joint.  

Term indicating something that is closer to the midline of the body.  

One of two bodies lying in the posterior part of the dorsal thalamus. Each receives fibers from the acoustic tract of the pons and the inferior colliculus through the brachium.  

Toward the median line or plane of the body.