Pediatrics and Child Health Terms
Health terminology concerning infants, children, and adolescents. Browse definitions and meanings below.
What is pediatrics?
Pediatrics is the branch of medicine caring for people from birth through adolescence. It exists as a separate field because a growing body is not a scaled-down adult one: organs mature at different rates, doses are calculated by weight, and normal values for pulse, breathing and blood pressure shift year by year.
Age vocabulary is exact here in a way it is not elsewhere. Neonate covers the first month, infant the first year, and terms such as preterm and term describe the point of birth. These are definitions rather than loose descriptions, because so much of what counts as normal depends on which one applies.
Terms in this topic
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An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination used with radiation therapy to treat low-risk childhood Hodgkin lymphoma.
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An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination used with radiation therapy to treat low-risk childhood Hodgkin lymphoma.
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An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination used with radiation therapy to treat low-risk childhood Hodgkin lymphoma.
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Three fields use the same three letters, and only context separates a safety report from a chemotherapy schedule.
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Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma is a muscle related soft tissue cancer that tends to affect older children and adolescents and behaves more aggressively than the embryonal subtype.
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A soft tissue tumor that is most common in older children and teenagers.
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The name points at a microscope pattern, not at the lungs: cell clusters walled off by fibrous bands.
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An aggressive cancer of the central nervous system, kidney, or liver that occurs in very young children.
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A rare, inherited, progressive, degenerative disease of childhood that causes loss of muscle control, a weakened immune system, and an increased risk of cancer.
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An aggressive cancer of the central nervous system, kidney, or liver that occurs in very young children.
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An aggressive cancer of the central nervous system, kidney, or liver that occurs in very young children.
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Burkitt lymphoma is a fast growing B-cell cancer of the lymphatic system that occurs in distinct forms across different populations.
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A professional who is responsible for making a child's hospital and treatment experience less scary.
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A condition or trait present at birth.
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A type of kidney tumor that is usually found before birth by ultrasound or within the first 3 months of life.
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An inherited disorder in which there is a lower-than-normal number of neutrophils (a type of white blood cell that is important in fighting infections).
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The older everyday name for a baby dying without warning during sleep, with no cause found afterward.
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An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination used with radiation therapy to treat low-risk childhood Hodgkin lymphoma.
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An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination used with radiation therapy to treat low-risk childhood Hodgkin lymphoma.
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A developmental stage is a recognizable period of physical, cognitive, emotional, and social change that a child moves through while growing toward adulthood.