SSI - Medicine

Medicine

  • Sliding-Scale Insulin, a method of insulin administration
  • Solid State Intelligence, a malevolent entity described by John C. Lilly
  • Stress-strain index, a measure of bone strength
  • Surgical site infection, this term is preferred over "Surgical Wound Infection"

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Famous quotes containing the word medicine:

    “Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienest who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous.... The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “After you eat always take a walk, and you’ll never have to go to a medicine shop.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    Rhyme.

    “The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)