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ARB
Angiotensin II receptor blocker
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- Wilkins, Lawson American physician (1894-1963) who founded pediatric endocrinology. At Johns Hopkins Medical School in…
- Good-for-you bacteria Bacteria that are good for health. Lactobacillus acidophilus are a type of good-for-you bacteria. The term is…
- Stenosis, carotid-artery See: Carotid stenosis
- Filariasis See Lymphatic filariasis
- Surgery, video-assisted Surgery that is aided by the use of a video camera that projects and enlarges the image on a television…
- Decompression 1. In general, the removal of pressure.2. In surgery, a procedure to remove pressure on a structure, as in…
- Test, Fisher's exact A statistical test of independence much used in medical research. It tests the independence of rows and…
- Summer cold A popular term for hay fever. Although the symptoms of a 'summer cold' may be similar to those of a real…
- Lithium Lithium: Lithium carbonate (brand names: Eskalith; Lithobid), a drug used as a mood stabilizer for the…
- Conserved sequence A base sequence in a DNA molecule (or an amino acid sequence in a protein) that has remained essentially…
- ApoE Abbreviation for apolipoprotein E, a gene that codes for a protein component of lipoproteins (complexes of…