Subject: GLOSSARY (s)
Date: November 1989 from BETA #3 and BETA #4 (12 items)
- seropositive:
- Infected with HIV, or a person infected with HIV.
- shingles:
- herpes zoster (usually blisters around waist)
- stupor:
- A state of semi-consciousness.
- sulfadiazine:
- A sulfa drug used in the treatment of K.S., toxo-
plasmosis and meningitis.
- symmetric:
- Occurring in the same parts on opposite sides of the
body (e.g., right leg and left leg).
- synergism, synergistic:
-
The harmonious action of two or more drugs producing a
greater effect than with either drug alone.
- systemic:
- Affecting the whole body.