Category: S
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Severely
Very badly or dangerously.
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Sever
To cut something off.
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Settle
To begin to feel comfortable or at ease, or to make a person feel comfortable or at ease. To fall to the bottom of a liquid. To attach itself, to stay in a part of the body.
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Session
A visit to a therapist for treatment. Any formal clinical encounter between a patient and a therapist. In psychology and psychiatry, each visit with a client constitutes a session. A meeting between the parties may have a single objective (e.g., to analyze feelings of loss or grief) or multiple goals (e.g., to quit smoking and…
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Serum therapy
The administration of treated serum, often from horses, formerly used as a way of boosting passive immunity. The act or fact or serving a person or group. A group of people working together. The therapy for a disease involving the injection of serum derived from immune animals or humans, which contains antibodies against the specific…
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Serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase
An enzyme secreted by the parenchymal cells of the liver, occurring in increased amounts in the blood of people with infectious hepatitis.
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Serum globulin
A major protein in blood serum that is an antibody. Any of the globulins present in blood plasma or serum. By electrophoresis, they can be separated into alpha, beta, and gamma globulins, which differ in their isoelectric points.
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Serum bilirubin
Bilirubin in serum, converted from haemoglobin as red blood cells are destroyed.
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Serration
One of the points in a zigzag or serrated edge. A formation with sharp projections like the teeth of a saw.
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Serpiginous
Referring to an ulcer or eruption which creeps across the skin. Referring to a wound or ulcer with a wavy edge. Having an indented or wavy margin: applied to certain skin lesions. A term describing a creeping or extending skin lesion such as an ulcer. Moving stealthily; possessing the form of a serpent.