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Endovascular aneurysm repair. A procedure to repair an aneurysm of the aorta. In EVAR a stent is placed in the aneurysmal area of the aorta. The procedure is similar to the placement of a stent in a coronary artery after angioplasty. An…
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Show more- Elbow, tennis A painful injury to the tendon that is attached to the outer part of the elbow due to repetitive twisting of…
- Intern In medicine, a doctor who has completed medical school and is engaged in a year of additional training at a…
- Mordant A substance capable of deepening the reaction to a stain (as in the pathology laboratory); incisive; burning…
- Heart-hand syndrome See: Holt-Oram syndrome
- Syndrome, Jadassohn-Lewandowski This is a type of what is called pachyonychia congenita (elephant nails from birth). The characteristic…
- Median The middle. Like the median strip in a highway.
- Eyelid The lid or cover of the eye, a movable fold of skin and muscle that can be closed over the eyeball or opened…
- Ulcer, Buruli See: Buruli ulcer
- Defensin A family of potent antibiotics made within the body by neutrophils (a type of white blood cell) and…
- Tetanus Tetanus: An often fatal infectious disease caused by the bacteria Clostridium tetani (C. tetani) which…
- Disease, polycystic ovarian Scrub typhus, a mite-borne infectious disease caused by a microorganism, Rickettsia tsutsugamushi…
- Cancer, papillary Cancer, papillary: Cancer of a structure called the papilla or ampulla of Vater, a small muscle located at…