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Terms for subject Medical (3027 entries)

V4EaP	Visegrad 4 Eastern Partnership Program	Tiny T­ony
vaccination	Giving a vaccine to stimulate a person's immune response. Vaccination can be intended either to prevent a disease (a preventive vaccine) or to treat a disease (a therapeutic vaccine)
vaccine	A substance administered to trigger an immune response against a particular disease. Most vaccines are designed to prevent a person from ever having a particular disease or to only have a mild case of the disease. However, therapeutic vaccines are intended to treat specific diseases. Although researchers are testing vaccines both to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS, no HIV vaccine is currently approved for use outside of clinical trials.
vaccine related poliovirus	vaccine-derived poliovirus	Millie
vaccinia	The pox-type virus used in the vaccine that eradicated smallpox. Researchers are studying the possibility of using a modified, milder version of the vaccinia virus to develop a vaccine against HIV infection.
vacuolar myelopathy	A neurological disorder associated with advanced HIV infection. Vacuolar myelopathy causes the protective myelin sheath to pull away from nerve cells of the spinal cord, forming small holes (vacuoles) in nerve fibers. Symptoms of vacuolar myelopathy include weak and stiff legs and unsteadiness when walking.
vaginal ET	vaginal estrogen treatment	vlad-a­nd-slav
vaginal ET	vaginal estrogen therapy	vlad-a­nd-slav
valley fever	An infection caused by breathing in spores of the fungus Coccidioides immitis. The infection starts in the lungs but can spread to other parts of the body, including the skin, brain, bones, and heart. In people with HIV, disseminated (extrapulmonary) coccidioidomycosis is an AIDS- defining condition.
Valley Regional Hospital	VRH
Valley View Hospital	VVH
Vancouver General Hospital	VGH
Vancouver Respiratory Therapists	VRT
Vanderbilt Children's Hospital	VCH
Vanderbilt University Hospital	VUH
variable number tandem repeats	VNDR
varicella zoster virus (VZV)	A type of herpesvirus that causes chicken pox. After initial infection with varicella zoster virus (VZV) the inactive (latent) form of the virus can remain in the body. If the latent virus becomes active again, it can cause shingles.
vasc	vascular
Vasculitis Damage Index	VDI	Nataly­a Rovin­a
VD max	maximum verification dose	Marika­_2020