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Postop
Short for postoperative, after surgery. The opposite of postop is preop
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- Age-related deafness See: Presbycusis
- Meningococcal infection Infection with the bacterium Neisseria meningitidis. (Neisseria was formerly called Meningococcus and the…
- Oral candidiasis Yeast infection of the mouth and throat caused by the fungus Candida albicans; also known as thrush. Yeast…
- Arthritis, reactive Arthritis, reactive: Reiter's syndrome is also called 'reactive arthritis' since it is thought to involve the…
- Necropsy A postmortem examination or autopsy. Necropsies have been done for more than 2,000 years but during most of…
- Oxygen A colorless, odorless and tasteless gas that makes up about 20% of the air we breathe (and at least half the…
- COMT Abbreviation for catechol-O-methyltransferase
- Achondrogenesis, Langer-Saldino type See: Achondrogenesis type II
- Allergy immunotherapy Stimulation of the immune system with gradually increasing doses of the substances to which a person is…
- Bulimia nervosa See Bulimia