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Tube, tympanostomy
A small plastic tube inserted into the eardrum to keep the middle ear aerated for a prolonged period of time. These ventilating tubes usually remain in place for 6 months to several years. Eventually, they move out of the eardrum (extrude)…
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Show more- Ninth cranial nerve The ninth cranial nerve is the glossopharyngeal nerve. The 12 cranial nerves, the glossopharyngeal nerve…
- Fred L. Soper See: Soper, Fred L.
- Donor insemination A procedure in which a fine catheter (tube) is inserted through the cervix (the natural opening of the…
- Bacterial prostatitis, chronic Prostatitis, chronic: Longstanding bacterial infection of the prostate gland superimposed on a defect in the…
- AT (in DNA) AT stands for adenine and thymine, a base pair in DNA. The other base pair in DNA is GC (guanine and cytosine)
- Jail fever See: Typhus, epidemic
- Differential diagnosis The process of weighing the probability of one disease versus that of other diseases possibly accounting for…
- Intercellular Between cells, as in an intercellular bridge
- Meconium ileus Obstruction of the intestine (ileus) due to overly thick meconium, the dark sticky stuff that is normally…
- Headache, sinus See: Sinus headache
- Pulmonary valve One of the four valves in the heart, the pulmonary valve stands at the opening from the right ventricle in…
- Melanin A skin pigment (substance that gives the skin its color). Dark-skinned people have more melanin than light-…