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Paraquat
A toxic chemical widely used as an herbicide (plant killer), primarily for weed and grass control. Paraquat is highly poisonous. It was first produced for commercial purposes in 1961. The most likely route of exposure to paraquat leading…
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Show more- Multiple system failure The failure of two or more systems in the body as, for example, the cardiovascular and renal systems…
- System, cardiac conduction The electrical conduction system that controls the heart rate. This system generates electrical impulses and…
- Occupational medicine The field of medicine encompassing occupational disease, diseases due to factors in people's occupations. For…
- Seed implantation Radiation treatment given by placing radioactive material contained within a small cylindrical shell directly…
- Typhus, Queensland tick See: Queensland tick typhus
- Postoperative care Care given after surgery until the patient is discharged from the hospital or surgicenter and, in some cases…
- Vein, small saphenous The smaller of the two saphenous veins, the principal veins that run up the leg superficially (near the…
- Herniorrhaphy The surgical repair of a hernia. Herniorrhaphy may be done under local or general anesthesia using a…
- Tonsillolith A tiny stone (calculus) in the tonsils. Also referred to as a tonsillith. These stones, called tonsilloliths…
- Intraoperative During surgery. Literally, within surgery. Intraoperative hemorrhage is bleeding during surgery
- Congenital synostosis of cervicothoracic vertebrae See: Klippel-Feil sequence
- Pneumocyte One of the cells lining the alveoli (the air sacs) in the lung. The alveoli are, in fact, lined with two…