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Pregnancy radiation exposure
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- Behavior therapy A treatment program that involves substituting desirable behavior responses for undesirable ones
- Virus, Coxsackie See: Coxsackievirus
- Hemoglobin, carbon monoxide See: Carboxyhemoglobin
- Hepatitis, infectious See Hepatitis A
- K kingae Kingella kingae
- Conditioning, Pavlovian Named after the Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1848-1936) who conditioned dogs to respond in…
- Avian tuberculosis See: Tuberculosis, avian
- Retropubic prostatectomy Surgical removal of the prostate through an incision in the abdomen. NTER>
- Vitamin therapy The use of vitamins to prevent or cure disease. Many physicians are now recognizing the beneficial uses of…