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Prenatal radiation exposure
The exposure of an unborn baby to radiation. Radiation exposure of the fetus can occur when the mother's abdomen is exposed to radiation from outside her body as, for example, by diagnostic X-rays. A pregnant woman may also be exposed to…
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Show more- Stenosis, spinal See: Spinal stenosis
- Migraine, ocular Migraine involving the eyes, with or without headache. Ocular migraines usually affect only one eye at a…
- Dysplasia, faciodigitogenital See: Aarskog-Scott syndrome
- Positron emission tomography Short for postmortem examination (an autopsy).
- Syndrome, Menkes See: Menkes syndrome
- DEHP A softener for polyvinyl chloride (PVC), a plastic polymer used in a wide array of products. Unplasticized…
- Meltdown, genetic A genomic crisis due to an extraordinarily high rate of mutation, a phenomenon known to occur in viruses and…
- Technology, recombinant DNA A series of procedures used to join together (recombine) DNA segments. A recombinant DNA molecule is…
- Ophthalmia Inflammation of the eye. Also known as ophthalmitis
- Biopsy, incisional See: Incisional biopsy
- Parasitosis Infestation or infection with parasites. See also: Delusional parasitosis
- Breech birth Literally, delivery of the baby by the buttocks first, rather than the head as is usual. Breech birth is more…