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Hepatobiliary
Having to do with the liver plus the gallbladder, bile ducts, or bile. For example, MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) can be applied to the hepatobiliary system. Hepatobiliary makes sense since 'hepato-' refers to the liver and '-biliary'…
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- Primary cataract See: Cataract, primary
- Disease nomenclature A system of classifying and naming diseases. The contemporary categories and codes for diseases are outlined…
- Wilkins, Lawson American physician (1894-1963) who founded pediatric endocrinology. At Johns Hopkins Medical School in…
- Patient-activated cardiac event recorder A device that is implanted directly under the skin and is programmable with looping memory that records…
- Atriodigital dysplasia See: Holt-Oram syndrome
- Type 2 diabetes See Diabetes, type 2.
- Jordi Casals-Ariet See: Casals-Ariet, Jordi
- Wormwood The essence of absinthe, an emerald-green liqueur flavored with extracts of the wormwood plant, licorice and…
- Cranial nerve, eighth The eighth cranial nerve is the vestibulocochlear nerve. The vestibulocochlear nerve is responsible for the…
- Pregnant The state of carrying a developing fetus within the body. The word 'pregnant' comes from the Latin pre-…
- Arthritis, quackery Like many people with chronic ailments, sufferers from arthritis are potentially vulnerable to proponents of…