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Blood pressure, high
Also known as hypertension, high blood pressure is, by definition, a repeatedly elevated blood pressure exceeding 140 over 90 mmHg -- a systolic pressure above 140 with a diastolic pressure above 90. Chronic hypertension is a 'silent'…
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Show more- PNS (peripheral nervous system) That portion of the nervous system that is outside the brain and spinal cord. The peripheral nervous system…
- Intubate To put a tube into a hollow organ or passageway, often into the airway. The opposite of intubate is extubate.
- Proto-oncogene A normal gene which, when altered by mutation, becomes an oncogene that can contribute to cancer…
- Speculum An instrument used to widen an opening to look within a passage or a cavity. For example, a speculum may be…
- Telomerase An enzyme concerned with the formation, maintenance, and renovation of telomeres, the ends of chromosomes…
- Postmenopausal After the menopause. Postmenopausal is defined formally as the time after which a woman has experienced…
- Shunt, triculoperitoneal A shunt that drains fluid from the cerebral ventricle into the abdomen.
- Laryngeal stenosis Narrowing or constricting of the larynx, the voice box
- Baseline 1. Information gathered at the beginning of a study from which variations found in the study are measured.2…
- Cerebellar ataxia with progressive dementia See: Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome
- Peritonsillar abscess A collection of pus behind the tonsils that pushes one of the tonsils toward the uvula (the prominent soft…
- Brachial palsy See: Brachial plexus palsy