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Transplant, renal
Replacement of a diseased, damaged, or missing kidney with a donor kidney. Also called a kidney transplant. Patients with end-stage renal failure are candidates for transplantation. A successful transplant frees the patient from dialysis…
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- Cide A type of bacteria that is the most common agent of gas gangrene and can also cause food poisoning as well as…
- Pelizaeus-Merzbacher-like disease A disease that is virtually identical to Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD) but without a mutation in the…
- Ergotism Ergotism could be called a 'cereal killer' for its cause, ergot, comes from cereals such as rye and wheat and…
- Blue cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides). A tall North American perennial plant with large blue berries. Blue cohosh is…
- Recipient In medicine, a recipient is someone who receives something like a blood transfusion or an organ transplant…
- Cholecystokinin Abbreviated CCK. A polypeptide hormone that stimulates the contraction of the gallbladder with release of…
- Dystonia, writer's cramp A dystonia that affects the muscles of the hand and sometimes the forearm and only occurs during handwriting…
- Antonomasy See: Antonomasia
- Deoxyhemoglobin The form of hemoglobin without oxygen, the predominant protein in red blood cells. Hemoglobin forms an…