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Show more- Deglutition The act of swallowing, particularly the swallowing of food. The muscles of deglutition are the muscles…
- ECST ECST stands for the exercise cardiac stress test, the most widely used cardiac (heart) screening test. In an…
- Vitiligo Vitiligo: Pronounced vit-uh-LIE- go. A condition in which the skin turns white due to the loss of…
- Film, AP An X-ray picture in which the beams pass from front-to-back (anteroposterior). As opposed to a PA…
- Thyroid binding globulin A blood protein that binds with the thyroid hormone thyroxine (T4).
- Aphasia, nominal See Anomia
- Congenital lymphedema A condition present at birth in which excess fluid called lymph collects in tissues and causes swelling…
- Takayasu arteritis Inflammation of aorta and its branches. See: Takayasu disease
- Oxygen A colorless, odorless and tasteless gas that makes up about 20% of the air we breathe (and at least half the…
- Peter Mansfield See: Mansfield, Peter
- Eyes, flashing lights in the There are a number of causes of spontaneous flashing light sensations in the eye. A sensation of flashing…
- Headache, migraine See migraine headache.