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Marx, Gertie F.
Distinguished German-born American physician known as the 'mother of obstetric anesthesia.' She almost singlehandedly developed obstetric anesthesiology as a specialty. She advanced the use of epidural injections to ease women's pain…
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- Superior A large vein that receives blood from the head, neck, upper extremities, and thorax and delivers it to the…
- UAA A triplet consisting of uracil, adenine, adenine, in that order, that acts as a stop codon in messenger RNA…
- Tachycardia, ventricular An abnormally rapid heart rhythm that originates from a ventricle, one of the lower chambers of the heart…
- Brain malleability See Neuroplasticity
- Deficiency, iron The most common known form of nutritional disorder in the world, iron deficiency results in anemia because…
- Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur (1859-1930) British physician, better known as the writer who created Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson…
- SLS (Sjogren-Larsson syndrome) The Sjogren-Larsson syndrome is a genetic (inherited) disease usually characterized by a triad of clinical…
- Ubiquinone See: Coenzyme Q10
- Ketone A chemical substances that the body makes when it does not have enough insulin in the blood. When ketones…
- Synaptic cleft The tiny space between two nerve cells across which the neurotransmitter acetylcholine diffuses
- Thrombotic disease due to protein C deficiency Protein C is a protein in plasma that enters into the cascade of biochemical events leading to the formation…