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A specialized area of community health that is concerned with laboratory techniques for diagnosing and treating diseases, and for investigating the conditions affecting human health.  

The science (or subscience) concerned with human (or animal) biology and with disease, its prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. To the activities and applications of the basic sciences (e.g., biochemistry, anatomy) to the diagnosis and treatment of patients (clinical medicine).  

The science concerned with all forms of living things. The study of living organisms, i.e. plants, animals, and microorganisms, including their structure and working and their relationships with one another and with the inanimate world. Science of life and living things, including the study of microorganisms (microbiology), plants (botany) and animals (zoology). The science of…

Substances, such as blood, blood products, and vaccines, that are controlled by the Food and Drug Administration. In the realm of human physiology, there exist intrinsic bioactive substances, predominantly proteins, which occur naturally within our bodily systems and hold potential in the therapeutic management of various ailments.  

Pertains to the ability of a particular substance to be used by the body.  

In epidemiology, the difference in assessment of test results, resulting from the natural changeability of individual subjects over a period of time.  

Poisons produced by microorganisms during the course of an infectious disease.  

The basic maintenance of life.  

Those basic needs associated with biological survival: oxygen, water, food, etc.  

Physical maturity.