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Hypoglycemia
Hypoglycemia: Low blood sugar (glucose). When symptoms of hypoglycemia occur together with a documented blood glucose under 45 mg/dl, and the symptoms promptly resolve with the administration of glucose, the diagnosis of hypoglycemia can…
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Show more- IgE Immunoglobulin E, a class of immunoglobulins that includes the antibodies elicited by an allergic substance…
- BASE breast cancer gene A breast cancer gene first reported in 2003 that encodes a protein secreted only by breast cancer and…
- Syndrome, floppy baby A general medical reference to an abnormal condition of newborns and infants manifested by inadequate tone of…
- Retinoschisis Splitting of the retina. From retina + -schisis (splitting)
- Prospective study A study in which the subjects are identified and then followed forward in time
- Thyroid cancer Thyroid cancer: Cancer of the gland in front of the neck that normally produces thyroid hormone which is…
- Nonblinded study A clinical trial or other experiment in which the researchers know what treatments are being given to each…
- Medication, anti-platelet Platelet-blocking drugs. Drugs that, like aspirin, reduce the tendency of platelets in the blood to clump and…
- Carbon monoxide on houseboats See: Houseboat carbon monoxide poisoning
- Stool occult blood test A test to see whether there is blood in the bowel movement. Also called a fecal occult blood test: A test to…
- Prontosil The first sulfa drug to be discovered. Largely of historic interest today. The discovery was made by the…
- Prusiner, Stanley B. American neurologist (1942-) and winner of the Nobel Prize for the discovery of 'prions - a new biological…