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Hypertrophy, benign prostatic
Abnormally elevated blood level of uric acid. Uric acid is a breakdown product of purines that are part of many foods we eat. While hyperuricemia may indicate an increased risk of gout , the relationship between hyperuricemia and gout is…
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Show more- Video-assisted resection Surgery that is aided by the use of a video camera that projects and enlarges the image on a television…
- Melasma Pigmentation of the face, most commonly on the malar area (the upper cheek), bridge of nose, forehead, and…
- Pestilence The pestilence referred to the bubonic plague and it now refers to any epidemic disease that is highly…
- Perfusion A chemotherapy technique that may be used when melanoma occurs on an arm or leg. The flow of blood to and…
- Reagent A substance used to produce a chemical reaction to detect, measure, produce, etc. other substances
- Immunization, anthrax Anthrax: A series of six shots over six months and booster shots annually, the anthrax vaccine now in use in…
- Lymphatic edema See: Lymphedema>
- Cosmid DNA from a bacterial virus into which is spliced a small fragment of a genome to be amplified and sequenced…
- Child urine infection See: Urinary tract infection in children
- Skull, hair-on-end Thin fine linear extensions radiating out from the skull that look on an X-ray like hair standing 'on-end'…
- Nucleus, arcuate See: Arcuate nucleus
- Argon laser A laser with ionized argon as the active medium. Argon lasers are used for photocoagulation in ophthalmology