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Acute promyelocytic leukemia
Acute promyelocytic leukemia: Commonly called APL, a malignancy of the bone marrow in which there is a deficiency of mature blood cells in the myeloid line of cells and an excess of immature cells called promyelocytes. APL is due to a…
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- Lingual gyrus An area in the occipital lobe, the visual processing center in the brain. The lingual gyrus extends to the…
- Intestine The long, tubelike organ in the abdomen that completes the process of digestion. It consists of the small and…
- Study, gastric emptying A gastric emptying study evaluates the emptying of food from the stomach. For a gastric emptying study, a…
- Tenia In medicine, tenia is a genus (group) of large tapeworms some of which are parasitic in humans. In anatomy…
- Transport disease, cystine Commonly known as cystinuria, this is an inherited (genetic) disorder of the transport of an amino acid (a…
- Wrist The proximal segment (the near part) of the hand consisting of the carpal bones and the associated soft…
- EVAR Endovascular aneurysm repair. A procedure to repair an aneurysm of the aorta. In EVAR a stent is placed in…
- Ammonium perchlorate See: Perchlorate
- American trypanosomiasis See: Chagas disease
- Urethral opening, female The urethra is the transport tube leading from the bladder to discharge urine outside the body. In females…
- Postmenopausal cervical kyphosis An outward curvature (kyphosis) of the cervical vertebrae (the bones of the neck), creating a hump at the…