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Waardenburg syndrome
A genetic disorder that causes deafness, white forelock (a frontal white blaze of hair), a difference of color between the iris of one eye and the other (heterochromia iridis), white eye lashes, and wide-set inner corners of the eyes. The…
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- Carotid stenosis Abnormal narrowing of the carotid artery, often a preamble to a stroke
- Gas chromatography (GC) A type of automated chromatography (a technique used to separate mixtures of substances) in which the mixture…
- Cardiac myxoma A benign tumor of the heart and the most common type of heart tumor in adults. Cardiac myxomas can appear in…
- NP Nurse practitioner
- Inguinal orchiectomy Surgery to remove the testicle, with the incision made through the groin.
- Mendel, Gregor The great Moravian/Bohemian biologist (1822-84) who set forth the basic laws that constitute the foundation…
- Locomotion Movement from one place to another. And the ability to locomote, to get from one place to the next. The…
- Excrescence An oral antiestrogen. Exemestane inhibits the enzyme aromatase in the adrenal glands that produces the…
- Meningocele (MM) Protrusion of the membranes that cover the spine and part of the spinal cord through a bone defect in the…
- T-suppressor cells T cells that express the CD8 transmembrane glycoprotein (CD8+ T cells). They close down the immune response…
- ERCP ERCP: Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.