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- proper noun The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, an immensely popular compendium of medical knowledge useful in practice
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For more than a century, the drug-maker Merck & Co. has published a standard textbook for physicians known as the Merck Manual, but in 1997 the publisher issued its first home edition -- to the delight and edification of many families.
Reference Books 2008
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Cabin fever is really a disease, according to the Merck Manual, which is the bible of diseases and health problems.
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One day he asked for something to read, and his doctor gave him a copy of the Merck Manual, a thick tome listing just about every disease and ailment know to medicine.
Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011
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One day he asked for something to read, and his doctor gave him a copy of the Merck Manual, a thick tome listing just about every disease and ailment know to medicine.
Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011
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Terrence Holt remembers the "leather armchair" in his father's study and the "thin, green-bound volume," full of lurid photos of childhood diseases, that led him eventually to an appreciation of the "calm, magisterial" Merck Manual.
The Life Well-Read Eric Ormsby 2011
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The Merck Manual (first published in 1899, now available in a Home Edition) warns individuals with B and/or T cell immunodeficiencies to avoid live-virus vaccines (the main ingredient in ones produced by Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, and perhaps others) due to the risk of severe or fatal infections.
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The Merck Manual (first published in 1899, now available in a Home Edition) warns individuals with B and/or T cell immunodeficiencies to avoid live-virus vaccines (the main ingredient in ones produced by Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, and perhaps others) due to the risk of severe or fatal infections.
Printing: Early and Current Fears about Vaccine Dangers 2009
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Weisberg implies that there is no difference between acute and sub-acute PT, because CMS does not recognize a difference, and the Merck Manual definiton of acute and sub-acute PT.
Former CMS manager enabled Medicare managed care provider to dodge regulations. 2008
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If he had any doubt, he would pull out his Merck Manual and come up with a cure.
Growth 2008
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Hallucinations and paranoia begin to take hold and eventually deteriorate into a state of dementia, according to the Merck Manual.
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