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Interstitial cystitis (IC)
Disease that involves inflammation or irritation of the bladder wall. This inflammation can lead to scarring and stiffening of the bladder, and even ulcerations and bleeding. Diagnosis is based on symptoms, findings on cystoscopy and…
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Show more- Inspissate To thicken. Inspissated bile is thickened bile
- Ci (Curie) Ci is the abbreviation for a Curie, a unit of radioactivity. (Specifically, the quantity of any radioactive…
- Central venous line A catheter (tube) that is passed through a vein to end up in the thoracic (chest) portion of the vena cava…
- Children of the dark Term applied sometimes to children with xeroderma pigmentosum, a genetic disease with such extraordinary…
- Anemia, Fanconi See Fanconi anemia
- FEMA A name well known to people in the US who have experienced a major natural or made-man disaster. FEMA stands…
- Thermophobia An abnormal and persistent fear of heat, including hot weather and hot objects. Sufferers from thermophobia…
- Anemia, Mediterranean Better known today as thalassemia (or as beta thalassemia or thalassemia major). The clinical picture of this…
- Gene silencing A mechanism by which cells shut down large sections of chromosomal DNA. Gene silencing is done by…
- Knee, artificial Total knee replacement, a surgical procedure in which damaged parts of the knee joint are replaced with…
- Type I error The statistical error (said to be 'of the first kind' or alpha error) made in testing an hypothesis when it…
- Inheritance, Y-linked Inheritance of genes on the Y chromosome. Since only males normally have a Y chromosome, Y-linked genes can…