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Maceration:
The process of putting in contact for some time a plant, or part thereof with a liquid solvent, so that any plant's medicinal substances pass into the liquid. This involves severing the plant first, to be in closer contact with the liquid.
Mata:
Partially lignified low shrub size, which lacks the main stem.
Medical:
Individual who, after a proper university education, receiving a bachelor status for medical professional to be able to diagnose diseases.
Medication:
Material is any substance which, either administered to the body and under certain actions do not always fully known, preserves, heals or relieves a disease.
Medicinal wine:
It is a solution of a medicinal wine. Today it is practically obsolete.
Medicine:
Science of diagnosis and treatment of illness and the preservation of health.
Menopause:
Period in women between 45 and 55 years in which the menses cease.
Meteorism:
Presence of gas in the stomach or intestine.
Migraine:
Headache, which usually affects one side of it, and that is often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, photophobia, and other annoyances.
Miotic:
Produced contraction of the pupils.
Mold:
Fungus that develops on decaying organic matter.
Mouthwash:
Liquid medication intended to act in the oral cavity.
Mucolítico:
A substance that breaks down the structure of the mucus, making it more liquid and therefore more easily coughed up.
Mutualism:
Association between two individuals or populations of different species, both benefit from this relationship. Many times these two species are unable to live separately.
Myalgia:
Pain in one or more muscles.
Mycology:
Science and study of fungi.
Mydriatic:
That dilates the pupil.
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