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Parasplenic
Located near or alongside of the spleen. The spleen is an organ located in the upper left part of the abdomen near the stomach. The spleen produces lymphocytes, filters blood, serves as a major reservoir for blood and destroys blood cells…
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Show more- Adjuvant The Latin 'adjuvans' means to help, particularly to reach a goal. Adjuvant therapy for cancer is surgery…
- Gallus gallus The Red Jungle Fowl, the ancestor of domestic chickens
- Hand-foot-and-mouth syndrome Hand-foot-and-mouth syndrome: A clinical pattern consisting of a rash on the hands and feet and in the mouth…
- DCIS See Pendred syndrome.
- Multi-infarct dementia Dementia brought on by a series of strokes. See Vascular dementia
- Nephrogenic rest A fragment of embryonic tissue in the kidney retained after the period of embryonic development. Nephrogenic…
- Nerve, fourth cranial The fourth cranial nerve, the trochlear nerve, is the nerve supply to the superior oblique muscle of the eye…
- Endovascular aneurysm repair Abbreviated (and most often called) EVAR. See: EVAR
- Eardrum The tympanic membrane of the ear, or tympanum, the membrane that separates the middle ear from the external…
- Gene family A group of genes related in structure and often in function. The genes belonging to a gene family are…
- Convulsion An abnormal, involuntary contraction of the muscles most typically seen with certain seizure disorders. The…
- Endocrinology The study of hormones, their receptors, the intracellular signalling pathways they invoke, and the diseases…