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Graft
Healthy skin, bone, or other tissue taken from one part of the body to replace diseased or injured tissue removed from another part of the body. For example, skin grafts can be used to cover areas of skin that have been burned or…
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- Urinary incontinence Urinary incontinence: The unintentional loss of urine. Inability to hold urine in the bladder due to loss of…
- Candidiasis, invasive See: Invasive candidiasis
- Depression Depression: An illness that involves the body, mood, and thoughts, that affects the way a person eats and…
- Unsaturated fat A fat that is liquid at room temperature and comes from a plant such as olive, peanut, corn, cottonseed…
- Syndrome, Usher A genetic disorder characterized by hearing impairment and an eye disorder called retinitis pigmentosa in…
- Amnesia, antegrade See: Antegrade amnesia
- Chiron In Greek mythology, the centaur who, wounded by Hercules, invented medicine in order to heal himself. Chiron…
- Headache, migraine See migraine headache.
- Male organs of reproduction >The male external genitalia -- the penis, the male urethra, and the scrotum; and >The male internal…
- Aortic aneurysm An outpouching (a local widening) of the largest artery in the body, the aorta, involving that vessel in its…