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Barium swallow
An upper gastrointestinal series (barium swallow) is an X-ray test used to define the anatomy of the upper digestive tract. Women who are or may be pregnant should notify the doctor requesting the procedure and the radiology staff. The…
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Show more- Cardiac transplant See: Heart transplant
- ALOX5AP Arachidonate 5-lipoxygenase-activating protein. See: FLAP
- Rhinophyma Pronounced (ryno-fee-ma), a bulbous enlarged red nose and puffy cheeks (like those of the old comedian W.C…
- BIID Body integrity identity disorder
- Period, incubation In medicine, the time from the moment of exposure to an infectious agent until signs and symptoms of the…
- Calor Heat, one of the four classic signs of inflammation (together with dolor, rubor and tumor). From the Latin…
- His-Werner disease This is a parasite (louse-borne) disease that was first recognized in the trenches of World War I and so was…
- Thromboxane A2 The active type of thromboxane. Abbreviated TXA2
- CVA Cerebrovascular accident
- AFP (alpha-fetoprotein) AFP is a plasma protein that is normally produced by the fetus. It serves as the basis for some valuable…
- Void To urinate. Just as we can void a check and empty it of value, so can we void our bladder and empty it of…
- Universal colitis Ulcerative colitis that involves the entire colon (the large intestine). Ulcerative colitis itself is a…