accrual

(health sciences) Recruitment (of participants) to a clinical trial.


clean

en-adj

clean (comparative cleaner, superlative cleanest)

cleaner (comparative)
cleanest (superlative)

From Middle English clene, clane, from Old English clǣne (“clean, pure”), from Proto-West Germanic *klainī (“shining, fine, splendid, tender”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *glēy- (“gleaming”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to gleam”). Cognate with Scots clean (“absolute, pure, clear, empty”) and clene, clane (“clean”), North Frisian klien (“small”), West Frisian klien (“small”), klean (“clean”), Dutch klein (“small”), Low German kleen (“small”), German klein (“small”), Swedish klen (“weak, feeble, delicate”), Icelandic klénn (“poor, feeble, petty, snug, puny, cheesy, lame”).

cog

"Serious as cognitohazard." Lillihammer danced down the corridor towards them, doing little pirouettes and leaping from toe to toe. "Reuben Wirth no longer exists. Gonna have to get Forsythe to do that brain scan to make sure I'm clean, but otherwise yeah. Poof."

2023 October 14, HarryBlank, “Face Time”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-23:

(health, of a person) Free of infection or disease.

I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married.

sexually transmitted disease
sexually transmitted disease

(health) Devoid of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

skoon

not having sexually transmitted diseases


PH

en-noun

PH (countable and uncountable, plural PHs)

(health, policy) Initialism of public health.


PPO

PPO (countable and uncountable, plural PPOs)

Coordinate term: HMO

(US, health) Initialism of preferred provider organization.


GMC

(health, UK) Initialism of General Medical Council.


AAS

(health) Initialism of Air Ambulance Service (a UK charity)


substrates

(health) The calorie dense nutrients including carbohydrates, proteins, and fats.


risk equalisation

(health insurance) A process that attempts to overcome differences in insurers’ costs due to differing levels of health among members of competing insurance companies.


sexual literacy

sexual literacy (plural sexual literacies)

(health sciences, sexology) Knowledge required to advance and protect one's own sexual health and well-being.


CF

CF (countable and uncountable, plural CFs)

(health) Abbreviation of cystic fibrosis.


MEQ

(health) Abbreviation of mindful eating questionnaire.


personal hygiene

personal hygiene (usually uncountable, plural personal hygienes)

The modern bathroom is the temple of personal hygiene.

(health sciences) The hygienic measures concerning a person's bodily condition, notably external cleanliness.


symptom journal

symptom journal (plural symptom journals)

(health, health sciences) A means of regularly tracking and recording the symptoms of individuals and their daily health choices in relationship to their health outcomes.


EMA

EMA (countable and uncountable, plural EMAs)

(European Union, health) Initialism of European Medical Association (association representing Medical Doctors in Europe)

European Medical Association

(European Union, health) Initialism of European Medicines Agency (a European Union agency for the evaluation of medicinal products)


prostate-specific

en-adj

prostate-specific (comparative more prostate-specific, superlative most prostate-specific)

more prostate-specific (comparative)
most prostate-specific (superlative)

(health, physiology) Specific to the prostate.


AHS

(Canada, health, medicine, government) Initialism of Alberta Health Services.


ECDC

(European Union, health) Abbreviation of European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.


HLS

(health, sciences) Abbreviation of health and life sciences.


route slip

(health) A brief single-sheet form that provides details of a patient.


exercise regime

en-noun

exercise regime (plural exercise regimes)

(athletics, health sciences) A set of rules regarding nutrition and exercise in order to attain the desired results.


ICV

ICV (countable and uncountable, plural ICVs)

(health, medicine) Abbreviation of international certificate of vaccination.


ProMED-mail

(health) Abbreviation of Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (the largest publicly available emerging diseases and outbreak reporting systems in the World)


Somogyi effect

Named after Hungarian-American biochemistry professor Michael Somogyi.

(health) A rebounding high blood sugar (hyperglycemia) in the morning as a response to low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) at night.