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Doppler ultrasound
A form of ultrasound that can detect and measure blood flow. Doppler ultrasound depends on the Doppler effect, a change in the frequency of a wave resulting here from the motion of a reflector, the red blood cell. There are several kinds…
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- Shunt, Blalock-Taussig A pioneering heart operation named after the American surgeon Alfred Blalock (1899-1964) and the pediatric…
- CNM Certified Nurse-Midwife
- Fear of spiders An abnormal and persistent fear of spiders. Sufferers of this fear experience undue anxiety even though they…
- Glutamate A form of glutamic acid. See: Glutamic acid
- Phenotype, Klippel-Feil See: Klippel-Feil sequence
- Grand mal A form of epilepsy characterized by tonic-clonic seizures. involving two phases -- the tonic phase in which…
- Spine, slipped See: Spondylolisthesis
- Mourning, public See: Public mourning
- Lymphoid Referring to lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell. Also refers to tissue in which lymphocytes develop.
- Thorax The area of the body located between the neck and the abdomen that contains the lungs, the heart and part of…