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Larynx transplant
A transplant of the larynx, or voicebox. This procedure permits a human-sounding voice with inflection, range, and qualities unique to the patient, and normal swallowing. The risks of the procedure include those of organ rejection and…
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Show more- Septum, cardiac The cardiac septum is the dividing wall between the right and left sides of the heart. That portion of the…
- Nat'l Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Y Diseases (NIDDK): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., the NIDDK has a multisystem name…
- Diabetic shock Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) associated with diabetes. Symptoms include a sweet, chemical odor on the…
- Colon cancer Colon cancer: A malignancy that arises from the inner lining of the colon. Most, if not all, of these cancers…
- Squamous-cell carcinoma See: Squamous cell carcinoma
- Stem cell transplantation The use of stem cells as a treatment for cancer or other diseases: > >The stem cells are removed (or…
- Lipoid nephrosis The earliest stage of nephrosis (the nephrotic syndrome of childhood). See: Minimal change disease. See also…
- HPS 1. Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.2. Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome
- Biopsy, brain See: Brain biopsy
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging The use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to learn which regions of the brain are active in a specific…
- Tonic-clonic seizure The classic type of epileptic seizure consisting of two phases to a tonic-clonic seizure -- the tonic phase…
- Mutation, germline Mutation, germline: A heritable change in the DNA that occurred in a germ cell (a cell destined to become an…