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Pain felt in the low or upper back. There are many causes of back pain. Pain in the low back can relate to the bony lumbar spine, discs between the vertebrae, ligaments around the spine and discs, spinal cord and nerves, muscles of the low…
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- Excrescence An oral antiestrogen. Exemestane inhibits the enzyme aromatase in the adrenal glands that produces the…
- Childhood (1) The time for a boy or girl from birth until he or she is an adult. (2) The more circumscribed period of…
- Physics, medical See: Medical physics
- SSRI A flowering plant, Hypericum perforatum, also known as Perforate St John's wort, that has long been believed…
- Intravenous immunoglobulin A sterile solution of concentrated antibodies extracted from healthy people that is given straight into a…
- Plano In practical optics, a surface that has been worked flat
- Gastroesophageal Pertaining to both the stomach and the esophagus, as in the gastroesophageal junction, the place where the…
- Acute-phase proteins See: Acute-phase protein
- Anaplasmosis A tick-borne disease of cattle, sheep, and related ruminants caused by a microorganism called Anaplasma…
- Western blot A technique in molecular biology, used to separate and identify proteins. Called a Western blot merely…
- Posteroanterior In anatomy, posteroanterior (PA) means from back-to-front. For example, a PA X-ray of the chest is taken from…