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Puncture, lumbar
A lumbar puncture or 'LP' is a procedure whereby spinal fluid is removed from the spinal canal for the purpose of diagnostic testing. It is particularly helpful in the diagnosis of inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system…
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- Dicysteine Cystine
- Growth in height See: Normal growth
- Weighing, hydrostatic See: Underwater weighing
- Stickler 1. Stickler, Gunnar B.. 2. Stickler syndrome. 3. With a small s, someone who insists upon some matter such as…
- The South Beach Diet The South Beach Diet is a weight loss plan described by cardiologist Arthur Agatston, MD in a best-selling…
- Caul Or cowl, a membrane, in obstetrics and cooking. In obstetrics, the caul is the amnion, one of the two fetal…
- Unresolved grief Grief characterized by the extended duration of the symptoms, by interference of the grief symptoms with the…
- Swelling of the brain See: Cerebral edema
- Birth companion See: Doula (the first meaning)
- Hypochondriasm See: Hypochondriasis
- Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Every prescription written in the United States bears a DEA number, that of the prescribing doctor, the DEA…