what does the term absence mean in medical terms?
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Absence is not a medical term. Maybe you mean abcess.
ab·scess
NOUN:
A localized collection of pus in part of the body, formed by tissue disintegration and surrounded by an inflamed area.
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It is just like an absence from work!
Who knows?!!
LOL evily!
It not there.
do you mean abstinence?
not there I would think
It means the condition is not there. The disease is not present, it is absent.
Did you mean "abcess"? a bad infection?
It refers to the state of our national health coverage.
it means not there. for example a doctor may say breath sounds absent, meaning he/she can not hear any breath sounds
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itu nurse
Absentia/absence means about the same as in English, but refers as medical term from some loss of consciousness to a more serious condition.
It is usually applied to episodes suffered by people with Epilepsy when they 'lose' periods of time and cannot remember what they have done during that time.
Absence means the lack of presence of something which was there!!
Abstinance is keeping away from coitus!! Abscess is a nasty wound/opn cut!!
it means a lack their of, none
the same thing as in civilian terms
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