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Good Clinical Practice

Two aims in one standard: protect the people taking part, and make the resulting numbers trustworthy enough for a regulator to act on.

growth and development milestones

Goals for the expected sizes of infants and children and activities they should be able to do at specific ages, such as sit, stand, play, speak, think, and interact with others.

gums

The gums are the firm tissue covering the jawbones and surrounding the base of the teeth, clinically termed the gingiva.

hemorrhage

In medicine, loss of blood from damaged blood vessels.

herbal

Herbal describes products or remedies derived from plants, which can carry measurable pharmacologic effects and interactions despite a natural origin.

hernia

The bulging of an internal organ through a weak area or tear in the muscle or other tissue that holds it in place.

HHV

A type of virus that causes herpes infections and has DNA as its genetic material.

high-grade lymphoma

A type of lymphoma that grows and spreads quickly and has severe symptoms.

histamine dihydrochloride

A substance being studied in the treatment of some types of cancer and other conditions.

homeostasis

/ hoh-mee-oh-STAY-sis /

The maintenance of stable internal conditions within a living system.

homeostatic

Homeostatic describes processes and mechanisms that maintain the body's internal stability despite ongoing changes in its external or internal environment.

Horner syndrome

A drooping lid and a small pupil on one side, signaling that the nerve chain running from the chest to the eye has been interrupted.

hotspot

Recurrence is what makes them useful, since a change seen repeatedly at one position is easier to test for and interpret.

human herpesvirus

A type of virus that causes herpes infections and has DNA as its genetic material.

hypervascular

Hypervascular describes tissue or a lesion that contains an unusually high number of blood vessels compared with surrounding normal tissue.

ICD

ICD most often refers to an implanted device that corrects dangerous heart rhythms, though the same abbreviation also names an unrelated diagnostic coding system.

IFN alpha-2B

A drug used to treat some infections caused by viruses and several types of cancer.

Ig

Ig is the abbreviation used in laboratory and immunology reports for immunoglobulin, the family of antibody proteins made by immune cells.

IL-1

One of a group of related proteins made by leukocytes (white blood cells) and other cells in the body.

IL-1-alfa

One of a group of related proteins made by leukocytes (white blood cells) and other cells in the body.