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Angiography, coronary
The most accurate method (the 'gold standard') for evaluating and defining coronary artery disease (CAD). Coronary angiography is used to identify the exact location and severity of CAD. During coronary angiography, a small catheter (a…
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Show more- Lysis Destruction. Hemolysis is the destruction of red blood cells with the release of hemoglobin; bacteriolysis is…
- Food and Drug Administration The FDA, an agency within the U.S. Public Health Service, which is a part of the Department of Health and…
- Food irradiation A food safety technology designed to eliminate disease-causing germs from foods. Treating food with ionizing…
- Sting, yellow jacket A sting from a yellow jacket (or other large stinging insects such as bees, hornets and wasps) can trigger…
- Piperine A pungent alkaloid that is concentrated in the outer skin of pepper berries (which gives pepper much of its…
- Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty A type of operation designed to tighten up flabby tissues and enlarge the upper air passages. The operation…
- Phage Short for bacteriophage, a virus that lives within a bacteria. A virus for which the natural host is a…
- Malattia leventinese An hereditary form of macular degeneration that results in progressive and irreversible visual loss. This…
- Lesion Pronounced 'lee-sion' with the emphasis on the 'lee,' a lesion can be almost any abnormality involving any…
- OGG1 A DNA repair enzyme with antimutator activity. OGG1 is one of a number of enzymes that repair damage done to…
- Product, gene The RNA or protein that results from the expression of a gene. The amount of gene product is a measure of the…
- Adenopathy Large or 'swollen' lymph nodes. Synonymous with lymphadenopathy