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* [[decontamination room]]
* [[decontamination room]]
: ''A device used by advance scouts after returning from a recon mission to detect and remove contaminants, presumably removing viruses and bacteria to which Colonials have no natural immunity ([[Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I]]).''
: ''A device used by advance scouts after returning from a recon mission to detect and remove contaminants, presumably removing viruses and bacteria to which Colonials have no natural immunity ([[Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I]]).''
* [[finite microlaser]]
:''The technical name given a laser scalpel, used in Adama's surgery ([[Fire in Space]]).''


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:'''Doctor [[Salik]]''': "I don't think you want me poking around your father's heart with a laser scalpel at a time like that." ([[Fire in Space]]).
:'''Doctor [[Salik]]''': "I don't think you want me poking around your father's heart with a laser scalpel at a time like that." ([[Fire in Space]]).
:''See [[finite microlaser]].''


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* life pod

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This article is a listing of Life Sciences of the Twelve Colonies. "Life Sciences" is a term used to described medical practices of the Colonies, including biological and psychological science.

Biological[edit]

  • bio-pulse line
Starbuck: "Well, it's my bio-pulse line, sir. You see, it's a bad time for me to be cooped up in a cockpit." (Saga of a Star World).
"Bio-pulse" is a likely reference to a 1970's Scientology fad that attempts to track behaviors and motivations based on pseudo-biological cycles known as biorhythms.
A device capable using cryogenic suspension to preserve or prolong a patient's life, until effective treatment can be applied (Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I).
A device used by advance scouts after returning from a recon mission to detect and remove contaminants, presumably removing viruses and bacteria to which Colonials have no natural immunity (Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I).
The technical name given a laser scalpel, used in Adama's surgery (Fire in Space).
Doctor Salik: "increase [the critical patient's] Islodin intravenous feed six units per centon." (Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I).
A type of medicine.
  • laser scalpel
Doctor Salik: "I don't think you want me poking around your father's heart with a laser scalpel at a time like that." (Fire in Space).
See finite microlaser.
  • life pod
Doctor Salik: "If we just let him lie in that life pod he doesn't have a chance in a centura." (Fire in Space)
The life science center is the medical care facility on board a Colonial battlestar (Saga of a Star World).
  • ultrasonic scrub
The colonial method of "scrubbing in" prior to surgery (Fire in Space).

Psychological[edit]

  • Catharsis treatment
Adama: "If anyone amongst us can say that he's all right, after what has happened, I recommend them for catharsis treatment." (Saga of a Star World)
Adama is likely referring to some sort of psychotherapy, a process where the subject is allowed to express deep emotions regarding an event in his or her life that had not been able to be properly expressed.
Catharsis is a Greek term meaning "purging" or "cleansing".