Medical Glossary H

process of becoming accustomed to a stimulus

time required for half the nuclei of a radioactive substance to lose their activity by under going radioactive decay

false perception having no relation to reality and not accounted for by any exterior stimulus

high-density lipid

arrest of bleeding or of circulation

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

health maintenance organization

school of American healing, founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann; based on the idea that very dilute doses of medicines that produce symptoms of a disease in healthy people can cure that disease in affected patients

measuring system used by lay persons, not apothecaries, in their homes

human papillomavirus

hormone replacement therapy

hypertension

central structure into which other structures are anchored, attached, or stabilized

colorless bases; glycolyl urea; derived from urea and allantoin

abnormally high blood sugar levels, as are found in people with diabetes mellitus or people treated with some drugs

abnormally high lipids in the blood

abnormally low calcium in the blood

under or inserted under the skin

abnormally low glucose in the blood

oxygen deficiency in body tissues