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Stent
A tube designed to be inserted into a vessel or passageway to keep it open. Stents are inserted into narrowed coronary arteries to help keep them open after balloon angioplasty. The stent then allows the normal flow of blood and oxygen to…
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Show more- Pseudoobstruction, neuropathic Intestinal pseudoobstruction caused by damage to nerve cells in the walls of the bowel
- Lung, collapsed Failure of full expansion of a once fully expanded lung. Medically called atelectasis. The word comes from…
- Disorders, myeloproliferative Malignant diseases of certain bone marrow cells including those that give rise to the red blood cells, the…
- Ear canal, self-cleaning Most of the time the ear canals are self-cleaning, that is, there is a slow and orderly migration of ear…
- Board certified Board certified in medicine means a physician has taken and passed a medical specialty examination. Board…
- Honey bee genome The genetic complement of the honey bee (Apis mellifera). Its genome is relatively small -- about one-tenth…
- Paternal 1. Pertaining to the father as, for example, a paternal age effect.2. Related through the father as, for…
- Mucoviscidosis An old name (but one that has prevailed in France and some other nations) for cystic fibrosis (CF), one of…
- OKT3 Brand name for muromonab-CD3, an immunosuppressant drug given intravenously to reverse acute rejection of…
- Meibomian gland One of the little glands in the eyelids that make a lubricant called sebum which they discharge through their…
- Sly syndrome A disorder of mucopolysaccharide metabolism characterized by short stature, coarsening of the facial…
- Reiter syndrome A chronic form of inflammatory arthritis wherein the following three conditions are combined: (1) arthritis…