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Blalock-Taussig operation
A pioneering heart operation named after the American surgeon Alfred Blalock (1899-1964) and the pediatric cardiologist Helen B. Taussig (1898-1986). Dr. Taussig designed and Dr. Blalock carried out the first 'blue-baby' operation to treat…
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- Transaminase, serum glutamic oxaloacetic An enzyme that is normally present in liver and heart cells, and is released into blood when the liver or…
- Gastric Having to do with the stomach
- Anhedonia Loss of the capacity to experience pleasure. The inability to gain pleasure from normally pleasurable…
- Circumflex Curved like a bow. In anatomy, circumflex describes a structure that bends around like a bow. For example…
- Oxymetholone A male hormone that stimulates production of the male hormone testosterone. It is sometimes given to treat…
- Pseudoobstruction, myopathic Intestinal pseudoobstruction caused by damage to muscle cells in the walls of the bowel
- Genital Pertaining to the external and internal organs of reproduction. (Not to be confused with genetic.)
- Royal Society, the Nerable scientific society in England which in 1665 published one of the first 2 scientific journals in the…
- Rheumatism, generalized Rheumatism affecting many and diverse parts of the body, such as fibromyalgia
- Peter Pan syndrome Term coined by pop psychology author Dan Kiley in his book 'Peter Pan syndrome: Men Who Have Never Grown Up.'…
- GD Gaucher's disease