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Testosterone replacement therapy
The practice of giving testosterone to treat conditions in which the testes do not produce enough testosterone. This may be due to absence, injury, or disease. Testosterone is available in oral, IV, and patch forms. As with estrogen…
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Show more- Mortality rate, neonatal The number of children dying under 28 days of age divided by the number of live births that year. The…
- Night sweats Night sweats: Severe hot flashes which occur at night and result in a drenching sweat. Night sweats can have…
- Drip In medical usage, a drip is not a dull, unattractive person but a device for administering a fluid…
- Akinetic Without movement (or without much movement). A term used in neurology to denote the absence (or poverty) of…
- LOD score In genetics, a statistical estimate of whether two loci (the sites of genes) are likely to lie near each…
- IDEC-Y2B8 monoclonal antibody See: Yttrium Y 90 ibritumomab tiuxetan
- Fecal incontinence Fecal incontinence: Inability to hold feces in the rectum. This is due to failure of voluntary control over…
- Polony A tiny colony of DNA, about one micron in diameter. The word 'polony' is a contraction of 'polymerase…
- Pilonidal cyst A special kind of abscess that occurs in the cleft between the buttocks. Forms frequently in adolescence…
- Shunt, transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic A shunt that allows blood from the portal circulation (that supplies the liver) to flow into the systemic…
- Cloning The process of making a clone, a genetically identical copy. Cloning can refer to the technique of producing…
- Na (sodium) Na is the chemical symbol for sodium. From natrium, a synonym for sodium. Sodium is the major positive ion…