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Liposuction, tumescent
The surgical suctioning of fat deposits from specific parts of the body, the most common being the abdomen (the 'tummy'), buttocks ('behind'), hips, thighs and knees, chin, upper arms, back, and calves after pumping several quarts/liters…
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Show more- Satellite DNA DNA that contains many tandem (not inverted) repeats of a short basic repeating unit. Satellite DNA is…
- Vaccination, children's See: DPT immunization.
- SIDS with dysgenesis of testes Abbreviated SIDDT. For more, see: SIDDT
- Buschke disease See: Scleredema
- Penicillin history The discovery of penicillin, one of the major events in the history of medicine. In 1871 the scientist Joseph…
- Syndrome, Sjogren See: Sjogren syndrome
- Diarrhea Diarrhea: A familiar phenomenon with unusually frequent or unusually liquid bowel movements, excessive watery…
- ApoE Abbreviation for apolipoprotein E, a gene that codes for a protein component of lipoproteins (complexes of…
- Yellow enzymes A group of respiratory enzymes that catalyze reactions in the body permitting cells to respire, to breath…
- Biliary sand Biliary sand is a term mostly used by surgeons when they remove the gallbladder to describe uncountable…
- Uveitis Uveitis: Inflammation of the uvea, the part of the eye that collectively refers to the iris, the choroid of…
- Beta cell A type of cell in the pancreas. Within the pancreas, the beta cells are located in areas called the islets of…