Resident
In medicine, a physician who has finished medical school and is receiving training in a specialized area, such as surgery, internal medicine, pathology, or radiology. Board certification in all medical and surgical specialties requires the satisfactory completion of a residency program and successful completion of a specialty board examination.
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Something left behind. With residual disease, the disease has not been eradicated.
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- Resistance
Opposition to something, or the ability to withstand something. For example, some forms of the staphylococcus bacterium are resistant to treatment with antibiotics.
- Resistance, antibiotic
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- Resistance, pulmonary
Opposition of the respiratory system to air flow.