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Electrosurgery
Instead of using a scalpel, the surgeon utilizes a heat-generating electrical device to burn or vaporize tissue in order to remove it and minimize and halt bleeding
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Show more- Berserk Frenzied, enraged. From the Norse berserkr, one of the old Norse warriors who worked themselves into a frenzy
- Lentigines When there is one lentigo, there are usually more lentigines
- Polyploid Three or more full sets of chromosomes. A polyploid brain tumor cell might for example have 69 or 92…
- Physiology >Some physiological studies are concerned with processes that go on within cells such as phagocytosis, the…
- Ribosome An RNA molecule that can catalyze its own chemical reactions.
- Analbuminemia 1. Properly, an absence of albumin from the blood.2. More loosely, a low level of albumin in the blood…
- Genetic counselor A health professional with a specialized graduate degree and experience in the areas of medical genetics and…
- Needle biopsy, stereotactic See: Stereotactic needle biopsy
- Bladder pain Pain from the urinary bladder. Among the symptoms and signs of bladder infection are: > >feelings of pain…
- Reproductive organs, female The internal genital structures of the female include the ovaries, the Fallopian tubes, the uterus (womb) and…
- EBS (epidermolysis bullosa simplex) See: Epidermolysis bullosa simplex
- Linkage analysis Study aimed at establishing linkage between genes. Today linkage analysis serves as a way of gene-hunting and…