See Also: hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy(medicine)
Internal medicine doctor(health)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Hypoxic(medicine)
hypoxic nephrosis(medicine)
hypoxic hypoxia(medicine)
hypoxic-hypercarbic encephalopathy(medicine)
Ischemic(medicine)
ischemic hypoxia(medicine)
colitis, ischemic(medicine)

hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (medicine) and Doctor (medicine)


hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (medicine)


hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy
Damage to cells in the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord) from inadequate oxygen. Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy allegedly may cause in death in the newborn period or result in what is later recognised as developmental delay, mental retardation, or cerebral palsy. This is an area of considerable medical and medicolegal debate.


Doctor (medicine)


doctor


1. A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man. "One of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel." (Bacon)

2. An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of Music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only.

3. One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician. "By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too." (Shak)

4. Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous colouring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine.

5. <zoology> The friar skate. Doctors' Commons. See Commons. Doctor's stuff, physic, medicine.

<zoology> Doctor fish, any fish of the genus Acanthurus; the surgeon fish; so called from a sharp lancetlike spine on each side of the tail. Also called barber fish. See Surgeon fish.

Origin: OF. Doctur, L. Doctor, teacher, fr. Docere to teach. See Docile.

6. To treat as a physician does; to apply Remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart.

7. To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.

8. To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky.

Origin: Doctored; Doctoring.

Source: Websters Dictionary