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- Acute Of abrupt onset, in reference to a disease. Acute often also connotes an illness that is of short duration…
- Arrhythmia An abnormal heart rhythm. In an arrhythmia the heartbeats may be too slow, too rapid, too irregular, or too…
- Tympanostomy tube A small plastic tube inserted into the eardrum to keep the middle ear aerated for a prolonged period of time…
- Leonardo da Vinci Architect, engineer, inventor, painter and the father of anatomic art. Leonardo da Vinci first became…
- Silicatosis See: Silicosis
- Ambulatory care Medical care including diagnosis, observation, treatment and rehabilitation that is provided on an outpatient…
- Soft palate The muscular part of the roof of the mouth. The soft palate is directly behind the hard palate. It lacks bone…
- Parenchyma The key elements of an organ essential to its functioning, as distinct from the capsule that encompasses it…
- Gene, evolutionarily conserved A gene that has remained essentially unchanged throughout evolution. Conservation of a gene indicates that it…
- IRB Institutional Review Board
- Lauterbur, Paul C. American scientist (1929-) who shared the 2003 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Sir Peter…