glass(noun) a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure. glass, drinking glass(noun) a container for holding liquids while drinking. glass, glassful(noun) the quantity a glass will hold. field glass, glass, spyglass(noun) a small refracting telescope.
Extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy is the meaning of ESWL in the medical context. E= Extracorporeal S= Shock W= Wave L= Lithotripsy. ESWL. It is a non-invasive procedure used to send shock waves through the body to disintegrate kidney stones.
Wolters Kluwer Health (WKHealth), the leading drug and health information provider, today announced the release of its RxNorm Cross Reference Files, a more user-friendly version of the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) standardized nomenclature for clinical drugs.