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Creatinine
A chemical waste molecule that is generated from muscle metabolism. Creatinine is produced from creatine, a molecule of major importance for energy production in muscles. Approximately 2% of the body's creatine is converted to creatinine…
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- Syndrome, acute brain See: Delirium
- Androgen suppression therapy See: Androgen suppression
- Microdosimetry A technique for measuring the microscopic distribution of energy, useful with different types of radiation…
- Vaccination, H. flu This immunization is designed to prevent disease due to Haemophilus influenzae (H. flu), specifically…
- Colpo- A group of diagnostic and therapeutic disciplines that are used together with conventional medicine. An…
- Supernumerary digit An extra finger or toe
- Offspring The offspring are strictly speaking the progeny, or young, born to a person. In a larger sense, the offspring…
- Surgery, retrograde intrarenal (RIRS) Retrograde intrarenal surgery (RIRS) is a procedure for doing surgery within the kidney using a viewing tube…
- Iliac Pertaining to the ilium.
- Dual energy X-ray absorptometry Abbreviated DEXA. See: DXA
- Duchenne-Erb paralysis See: Erb palsy