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SPECT
An acronym that stands for Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography, a nuclear medicine procedure in which a gamma camera rotates around the patient and takes pictures from many angles, which a computer then uses to form a tomographic…
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Show more- Bradyphrenia Slowed thought processes. Can be a side effect of certain psychiatric medications
- Eye, dry See: Dry eye
- Frontal In anatomy, pertaining to the forehead. As, for example, the frontal bone, frontal sinus, and frontal nerve…
- Diabetes, adult-onset Type 2 diabetes. See also Diabetes, type 2
- Heebie-jeebies Extreme nervousness. A term coined by the America cartoonist Billy DeBeck (1890-1942) in his comic strip…
- Spinal muscular atrophy A genetic disease characterized by progressive loss of lower motor neurons (anterior horn cells) in the…
- Proteolipid protein The complete set of proteins expressed and modified following their expression by the genome. The term…
- PCR (polymerase chain reaction) PCR (polymerase chain reaction): A key technique in molecular genetics that permits the analysis of any short…
- Cervical Having to do with any kind of neck including the neck on which the head is perched and the neck of the…
- Foot, athlete A skin infection caused by a fungus called Trichophyton which can thrive and infect the upper layer of the…
- Undulatant Having a wavy border or form. Also, rising and falling like a wave. For example, the border of a wound may be…
- Ear tubes Ear tubes: Formally known as tympanostomy tubes, ear tubes are small plastic tubes inserted into the eardrum…