A feeling that your bowl not completely empty even though it is empty. A medical definition is “a sensation of incomplete bowel evacuation despite an empty rectum”.
The marvels of latin and medicine – words for everything…
Glossary
Selected words and phrases
mean (average) – where all the results are added together, and then divided by the number of results to find the (mean) average. See median.
partially active – the HIV treatment in question will work against this virus but this is reduced compared to wild-type HIV. This is the same as partial resistance, or intermediate resistance etc.
second-line therapy – the combination of used after your first treatment has failed.
confirmatory test – a second test to double-check the results of a previous one. For example, if your viral load is usually undetectable and then becomes detectable, you need a second confirmatory test. This is to check that the detectable result was not a laboratory error on just a temporary blip.