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Guided implant surgery

Guided implant surgery is a dental technique that transfers a virtual implant plan, built from CBCT scans, to the surgical field using static templates or dynamic navigation.

Guided meditation

Guided meditation is meditation in which an instructor or recording verbally directs a participant's attention, breathing, and imagery, most often to produce relaxation and reduce stress, anxiety, depression, or pain.

Guided tissue regeneration

Guided tissue regeneration (GTR) is a periodontal surgical technique in which a barrier membrane excludes fast-growing tissue so bone, cementum, and periodontal ligament regrow on a cleaned tooth root.

Guideline Adherence

Guideline adherence: conformity of health organizations and professionals to clinical guidelines, protocols, and standards (MeSH D019983, 1998). Distinct from patient compliance; measured via surveys, chart review, and rule-based alignment; rates range 1–100% across studies.

Guido Baccelli

Guido Baccelli was an Italian physician and statesman, professor of clinical medicine at the University of Rome and repeated Minister of Public Instruction, who promoted the Policlinico Umberto I.

Guido Kroemer

Guido Kroemer, born 1961, is an Austrian-Spanish cell biologist and cancer researcher working in Paris, known for discovering how mitochondrial membrane permeabilization ignites cell death and for the concept of immunogenic cell death.

Guido Lucarelli

Guido Lucarelli, born 1934 in Lucca, is an Italian hematologist who made allogeneic bone marrow transplantation a curative treatment for thalassemia, developing the Pesaro classification and transplant protocols at Pesaro.

Guido Majno

Guido Majno (1922–2010) was an Italian-born pathologist who explained how blood vessels leak during inflammation and co-discovered the myofibroblast, the contractile cell that closes wounds.

Guido Marcucci

Guido Marcucci is an Italian-born American physician-scientist who studies and treats acute myeloid leukemia; since 2014 he has directed the Gehr Family Center for Leukemia Research at City of Hope.

Guido Pontecorvo

Guido Pontecorvo (1907–1999) was an Italian-born British geneticist who discovered the parasexual cycle in fungi, became the University of Glasgow's first Professor of Genetics, and won the Darwin Medal in 1978.

Guido Silvestri

Guido Silvestri is an Italian-born physician-scientist at Emory University who studies why sooty mangabeys infected with SIV never develop AIDS, informing HIV vaccine and cure research.

Guido Tricot

Guido J. Tricot is a Belgian-born hematologist-oncologist and myeloma researcher known for developing Total Therapy, which raised median survival for newly diagnosed patients from 2.5 years to 10 or more.

Guillain–Barré syndrome

Guillain–Barré syndrome, or GBS, is a rare autoimmune disorder in which the immune system attacks the peripheral nerves, causing weakness that can progress to paralysis.

Guillaume Canaud

Guillaume Canaud is a French nephrologist at Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades in Paris whose work led to the 2022 FDA approval of alpelisib for PIK3CA-related overgrowth spectrum.

Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne

Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne de Boulogne (1806–1875), French neurologist, pioneer of localized faradization, facial-expression photography, the Duchenne smile, muscle biopsy trocar, and Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Guillaume Paré

Guillaume Paré is a Canadian physician-scientist and Professor of Pathology and Molecular Medicine at McMaster University, known for his 2010 study of CYP2C19 genotype and clopidogrel.

Guillén Fernández

Guillén Fernández is a cognitive neuroscientist and clinical neurologist who studies how stress shapes memory, leading Radboud University Medical Center and the Donders Institute in Nijmegen.

Guillermina Lozano

Guillermina Lozano is a geneticist and chair of genetics at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, known for defining p53 as a transcription factor.

Guillermo E. Umpierrez

Guillermo E. Umpierrez is an American endocrinologist, professor of medicine at Emory University, and chief of diabetes and endocrinology at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.

Guillermo J. Tearney

Guillermo J. Tearney is a physician-scientist, pathologist, and physicist at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital known for pioneering in vivo optical coherence tomography and the swallowable imaging capsule.

Guillermo Montoya

Guillermo Montoya, born 1967 in Madrid, is a Spanish structural biologist and professor at the University of Copenhagen, known for structures of CRISPR-Cas12a and engineered meganucleases for genome editing.

Guillermo Oliver

Guillermo Oliver is a developmental and vascular biologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, known for identifying Prox1 as the first marker of lymphatic endothelial cells.

Guillermo Prado

Guillermo (Willy) Prado is an American prevention scientist at the University of Miami, known for the Familias Unidas family intervention and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2021.

Guillermo Soberon

Guillermo Soberón (Guillermo Soberón Acevedo) was a Mexican physician and biochemist, rector of UNAM from 1973 to 1981 and Mexico's health minister from 1982 to 1988, who founded FUNSALUD.

Guinea Fowl (珍珠鸡)

Guinea fowl (珍珠鸡, pearl chicken), especially the helmeted guineafowl Numida meleagris, are African ground-dwelling game birds with pearl-spotted plumage, helmet-like crests, loud calls, 6-12 egg clutches, and domesticated farm and Chinese park exhibits.

Guinea pig

Guinea pig (Cavia porcellus, cuy): domesticated Andean rodent from Cavia tschudii, domesticated around 5,000 BC, kept as pet, lab animal, and meat; needs dietary vitamin C, 700-1,100 g, lives 4-8 years.

Guizhi Mahuang Geban Tang

桂枝麻黄各半汤 (Guizhi Mahuang Geban Tang), a classical formula from Zhang Zhongjing's Shanghan Lun article 23, combining Guizhi Tang and Mahuang Tang 1:1 in reduced dose; a mild sweating formula used for surface-constraint patterns and widely for urticaria and itching skin diseases.

Guizhi Renshen Tang

桂枝人参汤 (Guizhi Renshen Decoction), a classical formula from the Shanghan Lun by Zhang Zhongjing: Lizhong Decoction plus cinnamon twig, for incessant diarrhea and epigastric fullness with unresolved exterior; now used for gastroenteritis, allergic rhinitis, and heart failure.

Guizhi Shaoyao Zhimu Decoction

Guizhi Shaoyao Zhimu Decoction (桂枝芍药知母汤, GSZD) is a nine-herb classical Chinese formula from Zhang Zhongjing's Jingui Yaolue for painful joint disease, used as adjunct therapy for rheumatoid and gouty arthritis.

Guizotia

Guizotia is an African Asteraceae genus of seven species, including the oilseed crop niger or noug (Guizotia abyssinica), cultivated in Ethiopia and India for linoleic-acid-rich edible oil, birdseed, and animal feed.