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GOLD
The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD), a collaborative project of the US National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Its goals are to increase awareness of COPD…
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Show more- Pulmonary function test A test designed to measure how well the lungs are working. Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) gauge how the…
- Syndrome, Marfan See: Marfan syndrome
- Skin biopsy Skin biopsy: Removal of a piece of skin for the purpose of further examination in the laboratory using a…
- Fear of age An abnormal and persistent fear of growing old is termed gerascophobia. Sufferers of gerascophobia feel undue…
- Mirror, mouth See: Mouth mirror
- Subdural Below the dura, the outermost, toughest, and most fibrous of the three membranes (meninges) covering the…
- Bone, sphenoid See; Sphenoid bone
- Placebo Also called the placebo response. A remarkable phenomenon in which a placebo -- a fake treatment, an inactive…
- Insemination, homologous A procedure in which a fine catheter (tube) is inserted through the cervix (the natural opening of the…
- Isoform A protein that has the same function as another protein but which is encoded by a different gene and may have…
- Endocervical curettage The removal of tissue from the inside of the cervix using a spoon-shaped instrument called a curette
- Scan, thyroid An image taken of the thyroid gland after radioactive iodine is taken by mouth. The thyroid gland is in front…