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Osteochondromatosis
A condition characterized by multiple benign tumors of cartilage called osteochondromas projecting from bone, most often from near the ends of long bones. In a small proportion of cases, an osteochondroma may become malignant. The…
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Show more- Partial seizure A seizure that affects only one part of the brain. Symptoms depend on which part is affected. One part of the…
- Nerve, recurrent laryngeal One of the best known branches of the vagus nerve, a very long nerve that originates in the brainstem. After…
- ECMO Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- Tuberculosis, MDR Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. See: Tuberculosis, antibiotic-resistant
- Band, Q A form of chromosome band, one of the bright and dull fluorescent bands seen alternating along the length of…
- Protein C A vitamin K-dependent protein in plasma that enters into the cascade of biochemical events leading to the…
- Sarcoma, metastatic A sarcoma that is spreading into other body tissues through the lymphatic system. The most common site for…
- Intraductal carcinoma Also called ductal carcinoma in situ. See: DCIS
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. (1809-1894). Celebrated American physician and professor of medicine (anatomy and physiology) at Harvard, and…
- Lawson Wilkins See: Wilkins, Lawson
- Celiac disease, adult See Celiac sprue
- Merkle cell carcinoma A rapidly growing type of skin cancer, correctly termed Merkel cell carcinoma, after the German anatomist and…