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Shoulder dislocation
Displacement of the ball of the shoulder joint (the top rounded portion of the upper arm bone, or humerus) from the socket of the joint (the glenoid fossa of the wingbone, or scapula). There is complete separation of the humerus from the…
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- Incision A cut. When making an incision, a surgeon is making a cut.
- Stargardt disease An hereditary eye disease that is one of the most frequent causes of macular degeneration in childhood. (The…
- Sweating The act of secreting fluid from the skin by the sweat (sudoriferous) glands. These are small tubular glands…
- Fatigue A condition characterized by a lessened capacity for work and reduced efficiency of accomplishment, usually…
- Ankylosing Undergoing ankylosis (stiffening or fusion of a joint)
- Diagnosis, retrospective See: Retrodiagnosis
- Lymph node, sentinel The first lymph node ('gland') to receive lymphatic drainage from a tumor. Which lymph node is the sentinel…
- Syndrome, autoimmune polyendocrinopathy A genetic autoimmune disease with an extraordinary array of clinical features but characterized most often by…
- Surgery, YAG laser The use of a YAG (yttrium-aluminum-garnet) laser to do surgery. One use for a YAG laser in surgery is to…
- Lobe Part of an organ that appears to be separate in some way from the rest. A lobe may be demarcated from the…
- Colorectal polyp A polyp (a fleshy growth) on the inside lining of the colon or rectum. For more information, see: Colon polyp