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National Cholesterol Education Program
NCEP. A program designed to reduce illness and death from coronary heart disease (CHD) in the US by reducing the percentage of Americans with high blood cholesterol. Through educational efforts directed at health professionals and the…
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Show more- Audiometry The measurement of hearing.
- In situ hybridization, fluorescent An important molecular cytogenetic method for identifying chromosomes and parts of chromosomes, deciphering…
- Hematology The diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases of the blood and bone marrow as well as of the…
- Vein, saphenous The saphenous veins -- there are two, the great and the small saphenous veins -- are the principal veins that…
- Laser surgery, YAG The use of a YAG (yttrium-aluminum-garnet) laser to do surgery. One use for a YAG laser in surgery is to…
- Acrodermatitis enteropathica An historic model for the therapy of genetic disease. In an era (the 1950s) when inherited disorders were…
- Paraparesis Weakness of the lower extremities
- Physics, health The science of human health and radiation exposure. Health physics, also called medical physics, is devoted…
- Phobia, social Excessive fear of embarrassment in social situations that is extremely intrusive and can have debilitating…
- Knee, housemaid's See: Housemaid's knee
- Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte A T cell that is antigen-specific and is able to search out and kill specific types of virus-infected cells…
- Homosexuality 1 Trisomy of the same chromosome. The occurrence of two children in the same family with trisomy 21 is an…