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Rupture, uterine
A tear of the uterus, an uncommon but very serious situation that may result in hysterectomy, urologic injury to the woman, a need for blood transfusion, maternal death, and perinatal complications including neurologic impairment or death…
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Show more- Scapula The shoulder blade (or 'wingbone'), the familiar flat triangular bone at the back of the shoulder. The word…
- Hepatitis E virus The agent responsible for hepatitis E. Abbreviated HEV. For more information, see: Hepatitis E
- Beta-2 agonist See: Beta-agonist
- Fred L. Soper See: Soper, Fred L.
- Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) See: SAD.
- Stem cell harvest, peripheral blood A technique for obtaining stem cells from the patient's blood for use in bone marrow transplantation. They…
- Stone, kidney Kidney stone: A stone in the kidney (or lower down in the urinary tract). Kidney stones are a common cause of…
- American Association for Advancement of Science Spoken of as the 'triple-AS', the American Association for the Advancement of Science is an organization…
- DBT Dialectical behavioral therapy
- Graft-versus-host disease A complication of bone marrow transplants in which T cells in the donor bone marrow graft go on the offensive…
- Endotracheal tube A flexible plastic tube that is put in the mouth and then down into the trachea (the airway). The doctor…
- San Joaquin Valley disease A disease also called coccidioidomycosis (CM) due to a fungus called Coccidioides immitis. About 40% of…