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Campylobacteriosis
Disease caused by Campylobacter jejuni, now the leading cause of bacterial food poisoning, most often spread by contact with raw or undercooked poultry. A single drop of juice from a contaminated chicken is enough to make someone sick with…
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Show more- Filler An inactive substance used to make a product bigger or easier to handle. For example, fillers are often used…
- Separation anxiety Separation anxiety: A developmental stage during which a child experiences anxiety when separated from the…
- Injection snoreplasty To harm, hurt, or wound. The word injure may be in physical or emotional sense. Treadmill machines may injure…
- Hyperkalemia Hyperkalemia: Elevated blood potassium. Potassium is the major positive ion (cation) found inside of cells…
- Peri-appendiceal See: Periappendiceal
- Test, ThinPrep Pap A modified Pap test technique designed to reduce some of the technical problems inherent in the traditional…
- Lithotripsy, extracorporeal shock wave See: Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy
- Balanoposthitis In the uncircumcised male, balanitis (inflammation of the glans, the rounded head of the penis) and posthitis…
- Xeromammography Xeroradiography of the breast. Xeroradiography is a photoelectric method of recording an x-ray image on a…
- Opiate agonist maintenance See: Methadone treatment program
- Reed-Sternberg cell A type of cell that appears in patients with Hodgkin's disease. The number of these cells increases as the…
- HLA The major human histocompatibility system. HLA-typing is done before transplantation to determine the degree…