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Chorea
Ceaseless rapid complex body movements that look well coordinated and purposeful but are, in fact, involuntary. Chorea was thought suggestive of a grotesque dance. The term 'chorea' is derived from the Greek word 'choreia' for dancing (as…
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- Selective tubal occlusion procedure (The acronym for selective tubal occlusion procedure is STOP.) A nonsurgical form of permanent birth control…
- Bursitis, shoulder Inflammation of a bursa of a shoulder joint. A bursa is a fluid-filled sac that functions as a gliding…
- Ft. Abbreviation for foot, a measure of length. For example, 6 ft. is 1.83 meters
- Leukopenia Lower than the normal amount of white blood cells.
- Acapnia Less than the normal level of carbon dioxide in the blood. The opposite of hypercapnia. The origin of the…
- Adipose 'Adipose' means 'fat' but is usually used to refer specifically to tissue made up of mainly fat cells such as…
- Anonymous testing Testing in which no name is used -- there is total anonymity -- to identify the person tested. For example…
- Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur (1859-1930) British physician, better known as the writer who created Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson…
- Pacemaker, artificial A device that uses electrical impulses to regulate the heart rhythm or to reproduce that rhythm. An internal…
- FLAP A gene that helps make a leukotriene, a signal that activates the white blood cells involved in inflammation…
- Yeast genome All of the genetic information contained in yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae). The genomes of particular…