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Kidney transplant
Replacement of a diseased, damaged, or missing kidney with a donor kidney. Also called a renal transplant. Patients with end-stage renal failure are candidates for transplantation. A successful transplant frees the patient from dialysis…
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Show more- Food irradiation A food safety technology designed to eliminate disease-causing germs from foods. Treating food with ionizing…
- Honey bee genome The genetic complement of the honey bee (Apis mellifera). Its genome is relatively small -- about one-tenth…
- Pollinosis 1. Hay fever in response to pollen. 2. Hay fever in response to any allergen. See: Hay fever.
- Tyrosinemia type I A metabolic genetic disease characterized by abnormally high levels of amino acid tyrosine in blood…
- Kinky hair syndrome See: Menkes syndrome
- Absorption Uptake. In the biomedical sciences, absorption has diverse specific meanings. In the body, absorption is the…
- Sleep paralysis A frightening form of paralysis that occurs when a person suddenly finds himself or herself unable to move…
- Sequelae See: Sequela
- Electrophysiologic testing of the retina See: Electrophysiologic retinal testing
- Emergency medical technician A person trained in the performance of the procedures required in emergency medical care. You are most likely…
- Unique identifier reporting In public health, a system that uses information such as the person's birth date and part of their…
- Disease, Quincke's This is angioneurotic edema (or angioedema), a form of localized swelling of the deeper layers of the skin…