mortality – medical word for death or dying.
Glossary
Selected words and phrases
diarrhoea – when stools (faeces) is less than firm. This can range from loose to being very watery. As a medical condition it is usually also associated with needing to go to the toilet more frequently.
For example, this is commonly defined as three or more liquid/watery faeces over 24 hour period.
See this information from the i-Base guide to side effects for ways to manage and treat diarrhoea.
https://i-base.info/guides/side/diarrhoea
obstetrics – a branch of medicine that refers to the care of women during pregnancy.
tropism – the type of coreceptor used by HIV in order to attach to and then infect a cell. If HIV uses the CCR5 coreceptor on the surface of the a CD4 cell it is called R5-tropic. If it uses the CXCR4 co receptor it is called R4-tropic). Early HIV infection is usually R5-tropic but over time, especially in late disease (if CD4 counts drop to less than 50 cells/mm3) the virus shifts to being X4-tropic. Mixed tropic refers to a having some viruses that use R5 and some that use X4.
amniocentesis – test in which cells around a fetus are removed and examined to detect genetic abnormalities