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- Pericardial tamponade A life-threatening situation in which there is such a large amount of fluid (usually blood) inside the…
- Sand, biliary Biliary sand is a term mostly used by surgeons when they remove the gallbladder to describe uncountable…
- Ear canal, self-cleaning Most of the time the ear canals are self-cleaning, that is, there is a slow and orderly migration of ear…
- Hypermagnesemia Excess magnesium. Persons with impaired kidney function should be especially careful about their magnesium…
- Microscope, simple A microscope that has a single converging lens (or a combination of lenses that function optically as a…
- Peripheral vascular disease Peripheral vascular disease: A disease of blood vessels outside the heart. Peripheral vascular disease (PVD)…
- Ejaculation Ejection of sperm and seminal fluid
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- Endometriosis Also known as adenomyosis (pronounced ad-den-o-mi-o-sis), this is a common benign condition of the uterus in…
- Data Facts, statistics, and the like. In medicine and the health sciences, people often speak of 'the data'…