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Edema
Edema: The swelling of soft tissues as a result of excess water accumulation. Edema is often more prominent in the lower legs and feet toward the end of the day as a result of pooling of fluid from the upright position maintained during…
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Show more- Karyotype A standard arrangement of the chromosome complement done for chromosome analysis. For example, a normal human…
- Apex From the Latin meaning summit, the apex is the tip of a pyramidal or rounded structure, like the lung or the…
- Swimming pool granuloma Localized nodular skin inflammation (small reddish raised areas of skin) caused by a bacterium called…
- Deficiency, lactase Not enough of an enzyme called lactase in the small intestine to digest lactose, a prominent component of…
- Panmixus Random mating
- Saphenous vein, small The smaller of the two saphenous veins, the principal veins that run up the leg superficially (near the…
- Biopsy, bone marrow See: Bone marrow biopsy
- Surgery The word 'surgery' has multiple meanings. It is the branch of medicine concerned with diseases and conditions…
- Beriberi, infantile See: Infantile beriberi
- Iontophoresis A transdermal delivery system in which a substance bearing a charge is propelled through the skin by a low…
- Sicca syndrome An autoimmune disease, also known as Sjogren syndrome, that classically combines dry eyes, dry mouth, and…
- Base sequence analysis A method for determining the order of nucleotide bases in DNA