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Colectomy
>Right hemicolectomy -- in which the right part of the colon is removed, >Left hemicolectomy -- where the left portion of the colon is removed, and >Other types of partial colectomies -- where other segments are removed from the colon. In…
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- Herbalism The practice of making or prescribing herbal remedies for medical conditions. Practitioners of herbalism may…
- Natriuretic Causing natriuresis, the excretion of an excessively large amount of sodium in the urine. A hybrid of the…
- Reaction, chemical A process in which one substance is transformed into another. Thousands of different types of chemical…
- STS Commonly used abbreviation for 'sequence tagged site.' A short (200 to 500 base pair) DNA sequence that…
- MS 1. Multiple sclerosis. See also entry to: Multiple sclerosis.2. Mass spectrometry
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- Genome, mouse All of the genetic information contained in the laboratory mouse (Mus musculus). The genomes of particular…
- PARK4 Familial Parkinson disease type 4