retrovirus – a family of viruses that includes HIV.
Glossary
Selected words and phrases
QD (or qd) – a short hand term for medication dosing that means ‘once-daily’.
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…
nanotechnology – science working with tiny particles at the level of manipulating individual molecules. This is an exciting field of medicine. Drugs developed with nanotechnology would need much lower drug doses (hopefully cheaper and having fewer side effects) and would be longer lasting (perhaps being taken every2–4 weeks).
hepatotoxicity – the medical term for liver-related side effects