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Cardiac stress testing, exercise
The exercise cardiac stress testing (ECST) is the most widely used cardiac (heart) screening test. The patient exercises on a treadmill according to a standardized protocol, with progressive increases in the speed and elevation of the…
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- Stereotactic needle biopsy A biopsy in which the spot to be biopsied is located three-dimensionally, the information is entered into a…
- Infection, pinworm An infection caused by a small, white intestinal worm: the pinworm or, more formally, Enterobius…
- Ammonium perchlorate See: Perchlorate
- Primordium In embryology, organ or tissue in its earliest recognizable stage of development. As, for example, the…
- Gnathostomiasis A disease due to the migration of an immature roundworm called Gnathostoma. Migration just under the skin…
- Disease, polygenic See Polygenic disease
- Inheritance, Y-linked Inheritance of genes on the Y chromosome. Since only males normally have a Y chromosome, Y-linked genes can…
- Tocolytic Relating to the inhibition of labor, delaying or halting labor
- Buffalo chest A single chest cavity with no anatomic separation of the two hemithoraxes due, for example, to tension…
- Medication, antibiotic A drug used to treat bacterial infections. The original definition of an antibiotic was a substance produced…
- Tick typhus Also known as Rocky Mountain spotted fever, an acute febrile (feverish) disease initially recognized in the…