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Today's Terms
Confidentiality
Definition:
The principle that prohibits physicians from disclosing confidential comments made to them by patients unless required to do so by law. The law may require physicians to violate patient confidentiality if the patient poses a serious threat to his or her own health and the well-being or that of others.
Allodynia
Definition:
When pain is caused by something that does not normally cause pain (such as clothing touching the skin).
Affidavit
Definition:
A voluntary statement or declaration of facts that has been written down and confirmed under oath.
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