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C-IBS
Constipation-predominant IBS (irritable bowel syndrome)
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Show more- Pressor substance A substance that elevates the arterial blood pressure. For example, prostacyclin (prostaglandin PGI2) is a…
- Tendonitis, Achilles See: Achilles tendonitis
- PAD Peripheral artery disease
- Immunocompetent Able to develop an immune response. Able to recognize antigens and respond to them. The opposite of…
- Mast cell A connective tissue cell whose normal function is unknown but which is frequently injured in allergic…
- Test, pharmacologic stress There are a diversity of pharmacologic stress tests. Here this refers specifically to a pharmacologic cardiac…
- Teratoma A type of germ cell tumor that may contain several different types of tissue and sometimes mature elements…
- Pharynx The hollow tube about 5 inches long that starts behind the nose and ends at the top of the trachea (windpipe)…
- WHO (World Health Organization) A type of chromosome rearrangement, also called a Robertsonian translocation, in which there is fusion of an…
- Deficiency, iron The most common known form of nutritional disorder in the world, iron deficiency results in anemia because…
- Lemierre syndrome A potentially lethal form of sore throat caused by the bacterium Fusobacterium necrophorum, a common…
- Glossal Of or pertaining to the tongue. Glossal is used as both an adjective and a compound word, as in hypoglossal…