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Skin graft
Skin that is used to cover an area where the patient's skin has been lost due to a burn, injury, or surgery. The most effective skin grafts involve moving the patient's own skin from one part of the body to another. The second most…
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- UROD Uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase, an enzyme required for the synthesis of heme, a part of the hemoglobin…
- Opportunistic condition A condition that occurs especially or exclusively in persons with a weak immune system due, for example, to…
- Gastric volvulus See: Volvulus
- Fear of dust An abnormal and persistent fear of dust. Sufferers of this fear experience anxiety even though they realize…
- Histiocytosis X Now called Langerhans cell histiocytosis. This disease is subclassified into eosinophilic granuloma, Letterer…
- Central venous catheter See: Catheter, central venous
- Rigor mortis Literally, the stiffness of death. The rigidity of a body after death. Rigor mortis is a good example of a…
- Velocardiofacial syndrome A congenital malformation syndrome characterized by cleft palate, heart defects, abnormal facial structure…
- Melanocyte A pigment-producing cell in the skin, hair and eye that determines their color. The pigment that melanocytes…
- SIDDT Sudden infant death with dysgenesis of testes. SIDDT was first identified in an Old Order Amish community in…
- Mental retardation, blindness, deafness, seizures Seizures: A disorder first reported in 1999 by Gustavson and colleagues as a newly recognized X-linked mental…