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Disease, Anderson-Fabry
See: Fabry disease
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Show more- Time, prothrombin A clotting test, the prothrombin time is done to test the integrity of part of the clotting scheme. The…
- Contrast Short for 'contrast media.' Contrast media are X-ray dyes used to provide contrast, for example, between…
- Diabetes, juvenile-onset See Diabetes, type 1
- Cyte A genetic term referring to the visual appearance of a chromosome when stained and examined under a…
- Ophthalmoplegia with ragged-red fibers See: Kearns-Sayre syndrome
- IVC 1. Intravenous cholangiogram, an X-ray study of the gallbladder. 2. Inferior vena cava, the largest vein…
- Syndrome, de Lange See: de Lange syndrome
- Reuptake The reabsorption of a secreted substance by the cell that originally produced and secreted it. The process of…
- Juvenile-onset diabetes See Diabetes, type 1
- Ambulant Means the same as 'ambulatory' (able to ambulate, walk about)
- Otitis externa Otitis externa: Infection of the skin covering the outer ear canal that leads in to the ear drum, usually due…
- Atrium One of the two smaller chambers of the heart. Each atrium consists of an open space with recessed walls. The…