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Isotopic
Referring to an isotope, a form of a chemical element with the same atomic number as another element but having a different atomic mass. From the Greek 'iso-', equal, the same + 'topos', place. Isotopes are used in a number of medical…
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Show more- Spirometry A test of the air capacity of the lung. The test utilizes a machine called a spirometer to measure the volume…
- Hyperopia Farsightedness; the ability to see distant objects more clearly than close objects. Hyperopia may be…
- MiRNA Micro-RNA
- NF2 (neurofibromatosis type 2) Neurofibromatosis type 2
- Primum non nocere The Latin words for medical slogan 'First do no harm,' a fundamental medical precept of Hippocrates (ca…
- Cauterization The use of heat to destroy abnormal cells. Also called diathermy or electrodiathermy.
- Encephalitis, eastern equine See: Eastern equine encephalitis
- Antineoplastic Acting to prevent, inhibit or halt the development of a neoplasm (a tumor). An agent with antineoplastic…
- Cramp, writer's A dystonia that affects the muscles of the hand and sometimes the forearm and only occurs during handwriting…
- Absorb 1. To take something in, as through the skin or the intestine.2. To react with radiation and reduce it in…
- Fornix cerebri An arching fibrous band in the brain connecting the two lobes of the cerebrum. (The cerebrum is the largest…
- Eardrum The tympanic membrane of the ear, or tympanum, the membrane that separates the middle ear from the external…