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- Dizziness, pre-syncopal Dizziness before fainting. Some symptoms of dizziness such as wooziness, feeling about to black out, and…
- Laparoscopic staging A staging procedure for tumors of the abdomen using laparoscopy in combination with laparoscopic…
- Pagetic Pertaining to Paget disease, a chronic disorder that typically results in enlarged, deformed bones due to…
- Nerve, sciatic The largest nerve in the body, the sciatic nerve begins from nerve roots in the lumbar part of the spinal…
- Androgen suppression Treatment designed to suppress or block the production of male hormones. Androgen suppression can be achieved…
- Opportunistic microorganism A bacteria, virus, or fungus that takes advantage of certain opportunities to cause disease. Those…
- Allelic Pertaining to an allele, an alternative form of a gene. A single allele is inherited from each parent
- Serum hepatitis Hepatitis B.
- Felty's syndrome Felty's syndrome: A complication of long-standing rheumatoid arthritis. See: Felty syndrome.
- Leiomyosarcoma A malignant tumor of smooth muscle origin. Smooth muscle is the major structural component of most hollow…
- Sickle cell trait The condition in which a person has one copy of the gene for sickle cell (and is called a sickle…