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GERD surgery (fundoplication)
A surgical technique that strengthens the barrier to acid reflux when the lower esophageal sphincter does not work normally and there is gastro-esophageal reflux. Fundoplication has been the standard surgical method for treating…
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- Flutter Flutter is a rapid vibration or pulsation. The difference between flutter and fibrillation is that flutter is…
- IUGR 1. Originally, intrauterine growth retardation.2. More recently, intrauterine growth restriction.
- Eukaryote An organism that consists of one or more cells each of which has a nucleus and other well-developed…
- Frontal lobe The part of each hemisphere of the brain located behind the forehead that serves to regulate and mediate the…
- Seizure, automatic See: Automatic seizure
- Cervical Having to do with any kind of neck including the neck on which the head is perched and the neck of the…
- Tumor marker, NSE Neuron-specific enolase (NSE) is a substance that has been detected in patients with certain tumors, namely…
- Penis The external male sex organ used to copulate and ejaculate semen and to convey urine outside the body. In…
- Monoarticular Involving just one joint. As opposed to polyarticular (affecting many joints). From the Latin 'articulus,'…
- Thomas Campion See: Campion, Thomas
- Chronic arthritis, systemic-onset juvenile See: Arthritis, systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid