Treatments
Dr Foster's medical dictionary contains explanations of medical terms specifically related to medical treatments that you might experience as an inpatient or outpatient at hospital.
In this section, you can find out more about the methods used by doctors to help manage or even cure some common medical conditions.
Select a treatment from the links below to find out more. Alternatively, you can go to the A-Z section of the medical dictionary and type in a search term. Dr Foster is constantly adding to the medical dictionary, so look out for more medical treatments in the near future.
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