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retreatment (medicine) and moidore (iou)


retreatment (medicine)


retreatment


The therapy of the same disease in a patient, with the same agent or procedure repeated after initial treatment, or with an additional or alternate measure or follow-up. It does not include therapy which requires more than one administration of a therapeutic agent or regimen. Retreatment is often used with Reference to a different modality when the original one was inadequate, harmful, or unsuccessful.


moidore (iou)



moidore noun. E18.
[Portuguese moeda d'ouro coin of gold.]
Hist. A Portuguese gold coin current in England in the first half of the 18th cent., then worth about 27 shillings.