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Stein-Leventhal syndrome
A hormonal problem that causes women to have various symptoms, including irregular or no menstruation, acne, obesity, and excess hair growth. Women with PCO do not ovulate (release an egg for fertilization) every month. They are at a…
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- Group therapy 1) A type of psychiatric care in which several patients meet with one or more therapists at the same time…
- Pulmonary therapy Exercises and treatments designed to help patients maintain and recover lung function, such as with cystic…
- Gyrus occipitotemporalis medialis See: Lingual gyrus
- Symptoms, withdrawal Abnormal physical or psychological features that follow the abrupt discontinuation of a drug that has the…
- Microscope, simple A microscope that has a single converging lens (or a combination of lenses that function optically as a…
- Laparoscopy Laparoscopy: A type of minimally invasive surgery in which a small incision (cut) is made in the abdominal…
- Incision A cut. When making an incision, a surgeon is making a cut.
- Ventricular Pertaining to the ventricles, the lower chambers of the heart, as in ventricular fibrillation and ventricular…
- Gamma linolenic acid See: Gamma-linolenic acid
- Bladder catheter, indwelling A flexible plastic tube (a catheter) inserted into the bladder that remains ('dwells') there to provide…