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- Anticonvulsant A medication used to control (prevent) seizures (convulsions) or stop an ongoing series of seizures. There…
- Electron beam computerized tomography (EBCT) A new (and controversial) noninvasive test for the detection of coronary artery disease (CAD). EBCT, or…
- First American medical journal The Medical Repository, founded in 1797 and published quarterly until 1824. The Medical Repository was the…
- CMG2 Capillary morphogenesis gene 2, a transmembrane protein that is induced during capillary morphogenesis (the…
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