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Operation, Blalock-Taussig
A pioneering heart operation named after the American surgeon Alfred Blalock (1899-1964) and the pediatric cardiologist Helen B. Taussig (1898-1986). Dr. Taussig designed and Dr. Blalock carried out the first 'blue-baby' operation to treat…
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- Computerized tomography Pictures of structures within the body created by a computer that takes the data from multiple X-ray images…
- Ambien Brand name for the sedative hypnotic drug zolpidem used for sleep. For more information, see: zolpidem
- Nerve compression 'Pinching' a nerve by putting too much pressure on it. For example, the sciatic nerve may be painfully…
- Coronary artery bypass graft Coronary artery bypass graft: Abbreviated CABG. A form of bypass surgery that can create new routes around…
- Athymic mouse A laboratory mouse lacking a thymus gland. Athymic mice have no T cells and useful in research because they…
- Pruritus Itching. Pruritus can result from drug reaction, food allergy, kidney or liver disease, cancers, parasites…
- Tropical cyclone A regionally specific name for a strong tropical cyclone in the Southwest Indian Ocean. Other terms for…
- CPEO with myopathy See: Kearns-Sayre syndrome
- Sigmoidoscopy, flexible Inspection of the inside of the rectum and lower part of the colon using a thin flexible lighted tube (a…
- Vibrio cholerae One of the Vibrio bacteria, V. cholerae (as the name implies) is the agent of cholera, a devastating and…
- Adeno- Prefix referring to a gland, as in adenoma and adenopathy. From the Greek aden meaning originally 'an acorn'…