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Calcified granuloma
A calcified granuloma is a granuloma containing calcium deposits. Since it usually takes some time for calcium to be deposited in a granuloma, it is generally assumed that a calcified granuloma is an old granuloma. A granuloma is one of a…
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Show more- Septuagenarian Someone in his or her seventies. See also: Age by decade
- Acidosis Too much acid in the body, a distinctly abnormal condition resulting from the accumulation of acid or from…
- Hearing instrument A synonym for a hearing aid that gained popularity to distinguish the device from AIDS. See: Hearing aid
- UAG A triplet consisting of uracil, adenine, guanine, in that order, that acts as a stop codon in messenger RNA…
- Vesicoenteric Pertaining to both the urinary bladder and intestine or to a communication between them, as in a…
- Avery See: Avery, Oswald Theodore
- Nephropathy Any kidney disease. For example, there is diabetic nephropathy, gouty nephropathy, HIV-associated…
- Chronic wasting disease A transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) of North American deer and elk, a progressive…
- Surfactant A fluid secreted by the cells of the alveoli (the tiny air sacs in the lungs) that serves to reduce the…
- Thoracentesis Removal of fluid in the pleura through a needle
- Amyloidosis, secondary Amyloidosis, secondary : One of a group of diseases (called amyloidosis) in which protein deposits (amyloid)…
- Framingham Study A landmark study begun in 1948 in which some 12,000 residents of the town of Framingham, Massachusetts were…