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Chronic vs Acute Pain   Pain is a common complaint in the medical practice. It is defined as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage; or described in terms of such damage. It is a subjective measurement. Description of the pain includes eight characteristics... 

Hypnosis vs Hypnotherapy   Hypnosis and hypnotherapy are sort of new terms that are being increasingly used in the current medical practice. However, the basic idea was used in the past centuries, but now a therapeutic value has been added on to it. As their names suggest, hypnosis is a state of mind while hypnotherapy... 

Palliative Care vs Hospice    Both, palliative care and hospice, sound same when it comes to the most important issue of caring chronically ill and dying people, but they do differ from the way it is being provided. Palliative care focuses on relieving from suffering and the patient may or may not be terminally... 

Healing vs Curing Healing and Curing are two words that are often confused as words that covey the same meaning. Actually, they are not so. There is some difference between the two words. One of the primary differences between healing and curing is that, healing is all about the spirit, whereas curing is everything... 

Dialysis vs Hemodialysis | Peritoneal dialysis vs Hemodialysis One of the most appreciated inventions in the field of medicine is the dialysis machines and the principles involved in dialysis. Here a person, who has acute or chronic renal failure requires the excess harmful metabolites to be removed from the body,... 

Virus vs Disease It was Hippocrates, who is famed to have claimed that diseases of the human body are due to physical tangible causes, and not the acts of demons, spirits or capricious gods. He is considered to be the father of modern medicine because; from that point onwards medicine became a quest to find that... 

Signs vs Symptoms The science component involved in medicine is evolving so fast, and over the last couple of decades we have come across many scientific marvels that will make the practice of medicine, safe, pain free, effective and preventive at times. The most important of these are the new diagnostic equipment... 

Therapy vs Treatment Therapy and treatment are two words that are often confused when it comes to their meanings. Actually, there is some difference between the two words. The word ‘therapy’ is used in the sense of ‘rehabilitation’. On the other hand, the word ‘treatment’ is used in the sense of ‘cure’.... 

Therapy vs Counseling Therapy and Counseling are two words that are often confused as words that denote the same meaning. Strictly speaking, there is some difference between the two words. The word ‘therapy’ is used in the sense of ‘treatment’ as in the expressions, ‘music therapy’, ‘Yoga therapy’... 

Ache vs Pain Ache and Pain are two words that are often confused when it comes to their meanings and connotations. Strictly speaking, there are some differences between the two words. The word ‘ache’ is used to refer to a kind of discomfort in some part of the body. On the other hand, the word ‘pain’... 

Vaccines vs Antibiotics In modern medicine, the treatment of ailments, and prevention of diseases became achievable goals with the advent of vaccines and antibiotics. Before this time, medicine depended on surgical techniques, and earlier to this, folk remedies were put into practice in a trial and error method.... 

Endoscopy vs Gastroscopy One of the most important tools in the modern clinician’s arsenal is the imaging device. There are many imaging devices using a multitude of techniques, but the use of the devices, which use normal vision to view structures is the most important. It provides us with the actual appearance... 

Benign vs Malignant These two adjectives can be used to describe many conditions, but it is used mostly to describe tumors or neoplasms. A tumor or a neoplasm is a solid or fluid filled structure, may or may not be formed with a collection of neoplastic cells, which appear large in size. Here, when considering... 

First vs Second vs Third Degree Burns A burn is an injury to the flesh caused by heat energy due to electricity, open flame, chemicals, radiation or friction. Most of the time only the two layers of the skin are involved, but on occasions, muscle, nerves and soft tissues are also involved. Burns can be treated... 

MRI vs MRA Most of us are aware of the medical term MRI that is used to produce 2D images of organs inside our bodies using radio waves. This is a good way to detect any anomalies or ailments inside our body without using any kind of surgery, that is MRI is a non invasive technique. Of late there has been another... 

Elisa vs Western Blot HIV AIDS has become a global problem and the incidence of this dreaded disease has increased alarmingly in the last few decades. There are many techniques of knowing the presence of the virus in human body and out of them ELISA and Western Blot are very popular today. There are many similarities...