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Amniocentesis
ODYvAlign=top bgColor=#cccccc colSpan=2> vAlign=top width='100%' bgColor=#ffffff>Our Amniocentesis Main Article provides a comprehensive look at the who, what, when and how of Amniocentesis Amniocentesis: Procedure used in prenatal…
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Show more- Breast bone Breast bone: Familiar name for the sternum, the long flat bone in the middle of the front of the chest. The…
- Osteosynthesis A surgical procedure that stabilizes and joins the ends of fractured (broken) bones by mechanical devices…
- Esophagitis Esophagitis: Inflammation of the esophagus. The esophagus is that soft tube-like portion of the digestive…
- Bioinformatics The sum of the computational approaches to analyze, manage, and store biological data. Bioinformatics…
- Stereotactic needle biopsy A biopsy in which the spot to be biopsied is located three-dimensionally, the information is entered into a…
- Scoliosis, idiopathic A structurally normal spine that appears to have a lateral curve (scoliosis). Nonstructural scoliosis…
- Laryngectomy, total A surgical procedure in which the whole voice box is removed, and the stoma opening into the larynx is…
- Body stuffing The swallowing of relatively small amounts of loosely wrapped illicit drugs because of the fear of arrest
- Humoral Pertaining to elements in the blood or other body fluids. In medicine, humor refers to a fluid (or semifluid)…
- Congenital brevicollis See: Klippel-Feil sequence
- Memory B cells Secondary immune-system components that have an affinity for a particular antigen. Like other B cells, memory…
- Viral encephalitis Inflammation of the brain as a result of virus infection. There are many viruses that cause viral encephalitis