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Dowager's hump
An abnormal outward curvature of the vertebrae of upper back. Compression of the front (anterior) portion of the involved vertebrae leads to forward bending of the spine (kyphosis) and creates a hump at the upper back. Dowager's hump is…
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- Thrombectomy Procedure to remove a clot (a thrombus)
- HER2 Abbreviation for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2. HER2 is expressed by, and involved in the growth…
- Gingiva The gum
- Test, pharmacologic stress There are a diversity of pharmacologic stress tests. Here this refers specifically to a pharmacologic cardiac…
- Colonoscopy Colonoscopy: A procedure in which a long flexible viewing tube (a colonoscope) is threaded up through the…
- Alveolar Pertaining to the alveoli, the tiny air sacs in the lungs. The exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes…
- Serratus posterior inferior One of the serratus muscles of the back and thorax. The serratus posterior inferior muscle originates…
- Ileocolitis, Crohn Crohn disease involving both the ileum (the furthest part of the small intestine just before the colon) and…
- Iodide The chemical form to which iodine in the diet is reduced before it is absorbed through the intestinal wall…
- Unit, international (IU) An international unit (IU) is an internationally accepted amount of a substance. This type of measure is used…
- Local seizure See: Partial seizure