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Scintigraphy
A diagnostic test in which a two-dimensional picture of a body radiation source is obtained through the use of radioisotopes. For example, scintigraphy of the biliary system (cholescintigraphy) is done to diagnose obstruction of the bile…
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Show more- Seizure, salaam See: Infantile spasms
- VCJD Stands for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a human disease thought due to the same infectious agent as…
- Colon The part of the large intestine that runs from the cecum to the rectum as a long hollow tube that serves to…
- Keratoderma hereditarium mutilans See: Vohwinkel syndrome
- Verbal child abuse Child abuse: Also known as emotional child abuse, this is the third most frequently reported form of child…
- Bernard syndrome A complex of abnormal findings, namely sinking in of one eyeball, ipsilateral ptosis (drooping of the upper…
- Myco- Prefix that denotes a relationship to fungus. From the Greek mykes, meaning fungus
- Cancer, male breast See: Breast cancer, male
- Deficiency, uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase See: UROD deficiency
- Disorder, autoimmune See Autoimmune disease
- Progressive infantile poliodystrophy Ers: A progressive disease of the nervous system characterized by spasticity (tightness), myoclonus and…
- Gorlin syndrome II Name sometimes used for the LEOPARD syndrome which Dr. Robert J. Gorlin and colleagues recognized and…