Sentence examples for medical parlance from inspiring English sources

About a quarter of people given the diagnosis recover, without the help of medication; and others "age out," in medical parlance, improving incrementally over time and needing less treatment.

In medical parlance, "partial-birth abortion" has no meaning; the term is an invention of the anti-abortion movement.

Often, these trials are limited to patients who have not responded to existing therapies, "refractory" patients in medical parlance.

Every year in the United States, about 100,000 hospital patients age 65 and older experience what is known in medical parlance as Code Blue.

They "somaticize" their depression, to use the medical parlance, complaining of malaise, stomachaches, dizziness and other symptoms that are hard to pin down.

If they do, the companies may use their findings to persuade the F.D.A. to permit them to advertise additional uses for their drugs, or indications, in medical parlance.

Pet owners, or "parents" in industry parlance, are being sold on human-style luxuries and medical care.

1. Nine doctors have now given expert medical opinion that Warren Hill is "mentally retarded" – the official terminology still widely used in the US in legal parlance.

But it will be years before these are ready for their first patients, long after Mr Dobson's career will have reached a "critical" condition medical parlance for the point from which the patient either recovers or dies.

In their parlance: freedom.

Medical ethicists agree that AIDS was a prime force in introducing living wills, health care proxies, do-not-resuscitate orders and hospice care into common parlance.