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Test, nerve conduction
See: Nerve conduction velocity test
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- Gibbon See: Gibbon, John H., Jr.
- Morton syndrome See: Morton's syndrome
- Endothelium A layer of flat cells lining the closed internal spaces of the body such as the inside of blood vessels and…
- CD8+ T cell See: Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte
- Ants, velvet Ommon in most parts of the world including the Southern and Southwestern U.S., velvet ants are not true ants…
- Autonomy, patient The right of patients to make decisions about their medical care without their health care provider trying to…
- Anion gap A measurement of the interval between the sum of 'routinely measured' cations minus the sum of the 'routinely…
- HAVS Hand-arm vibration syndrome
- Waardenburg, Petrus Johannes See: Stickler syndrome.
- Takayasu arteritis Inflammation of aorta and its branches. See: Takayasu disease
- Nerve, seventh cranial The seventh cranial nerve is the facial nerve, a mixed nerve that has fibers both going out and coming in…