STAT means now. Everything else means consult a specialist.
Magnetic Resonance Imagingāusing powerful magnets and radio waves to create images without radiation, perfect for hypochondriacs.
Cancer's worst party trickāwhen tumor cells go on a malignant road trip and set up shop in new locations throughout your body. It's the medical term for 'really bad news, now distributed.'
The study of organisms so tiny you can't see them without a microscopeābacteria, viruses, and other microscopic troublemakers responsible for everything from yogurt to plague. It's where scientists became obsessed with things invisible to the naked eye.