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fulminant liver disease – sudden, rapid disease progression related to liver failure.

TST – abbreviation for testosterone

virus – an infectious organism that can only reproduce inside the cell of another plant or animal.

SIDA – the abbreviation for AIDS in French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.

TD (or tid) – a short hand term for medication dosing that means ‘take three times a day’.

See also q8H.